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Nicole Torres

2 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2022-2025

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Psychedelics Offer Healing and Ecological Remembrance for Marginalized Individuals Failed by U.S. Health Care

Ecopsychology September 29, 2025 Nicole Torres

This study explores how individuals from ethnoracially marginalized backgrounds engage with psychedelic substances for psychological healing, cultural reconnection, and resistance to structural neglect in mainstream health care systems. Based on 23 in-depth interviews and participant-observation within a psychedelic preparation and integration training program, the research documents how...

Altered States: Liminality and Consciousness During COVID

Anthropology of Consciousness February 2, 2022 Nicole Torres 3 citations

This editorial discusses the function of COVID as what the Indigenous scholar and psychologist, Eduardo Duran, describes as a ?great teacher.? The author engages with the opportunities of learning that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided, especially in the realm of anthropological studies of consciousness. The author encourages both scholars and practitioners to use the current pandemic as an...