Set and setting: The missing factors in Chris Letheby’s psychedelic philosophy
South African Journal of Philosophy September 11, 2025 W. F. Smith
Chris Letheby offers a two-factor account of psychedelic therapy in which the first of these factors is the induction of plasticity on neural, cognitive, and phenomenological levels. The second factor, which Letheby believes is crucial for lasting change, is the discovery of new forms of self-modelling within the psychedelic experience and the appropriate reinforcement thereof in the period of...