Psychedelic renaissance in healthcare: between the biomedical and the existential
Medical Humanities August 31, 2026 Daniel Laforest
In this review essay I outline how the current renaissance of psychedelics in mainstream discourses about medicine is spearheaded first and foremost by profit-oriented technomedical initiatives focusing on individual wellness, and how this very situation reinforces a problematic line of demarcation between the psychopharmaceutical approach to mental health, and the more classical approach that...