Buddhist Therapeutics and The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care: a social science of mindfulness.
Med Humanit July 22, 2026
Buddhist Therapeutics and The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care: a social science of mindfulness.
Med Humanit
ISSN 1468-215x; 1473-4265;
4 papers in the library · 21 citations · publishing 2018-2026
Papers
Psychedelic crossings: American mental health and LSD in the 1970s.
Med Humanit June 23, 2019 Lucas Richert, Erika Dyck 17 citations
This article places a spotlight on lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and American mental health in the 1970s, an era in which psychedelic science was far from settled and researchers continued to push the limits of regulation, resist change and attempt to revolutionise the mental health market-place. The following pages reveal some of the connections between mental health, LSD and the wider...
When bodies think: panpsychism, pluralism, biopolitics.
Med Humanit June 1, 2019
When bodies think: panpsychism, pluralism, biopolitics.
Supple bodies, healthy minds: yoga, psychedelics and American mental health.
Med Humanit March 30, 2018 Lucas Richert, Matthew DeCloedt 4 citations
Much discussion about mental health has revolved around treatment models. As interdisciplinary scholarship has shown, mental health knowledge, far from being a neutral product detached from the society that generated it, was shaped by politics, economics and culture. By drawing on case studies of yoga, religion and fitness, this article will examine the ways in which mental health...