Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
2021
Tehseen Noorani
68 citations
Over the past decade and a half, psychedelic drug-induced experiences have been returning to psychiatry as promising new healing modalities. The case of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy can inform how we think about the context of drug use because psychedelics are commonly considered to be sensitive to the ‘[mind]set and setting’ of their use. As such, epistemic and therapeutic concerns...
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
2021
Zeno van Duppen, Jasper Feyaerts
15 citations
status: Published
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
2021
Brian D. Earp, David B. Yaden
4 citations
Culture, Context, and Community in Contemporary Psychedelic Research Brian D. Earp (bio) and David B. Yaden (bio) Psychedelics require cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, and we were happy to see a contribution from the field of medical anthropology. Such a study holds the promise of characterizing the ways in which psychedelics are situated in contemporary societies, both within and...
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
2021
Bhrigupati Singh
A Measure of Philosophical Distance Bhrigupati Singh (bio) How is conceptual foreignness received within an existing territory? I am grateful to my respondents for receiving my invocation of foreignness from phenomenological psychopathology not as a question of culture or nationality but rather, in terms of philosophical distance. As I ask in the article: how do we measure philosophical...
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
2021
Tehseen Noorani
I'm grateful to the authors for their comments, and for the opportunity to respond. To clarify my approach, I sought to discuss the centrality of 'set and setting' at descriptive and normative levels in the Psychedelic Renaissance by focusing on the language of containment prevalent during my ethnographic research. Inspired by the study of material culture, I took up certain questions that can...
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
2021
Ben Lewis
Some Aspects of Containment Matter Ben Lewis (bio) Tehseen noorani’s article “Containment Matters: Set and Setting in Contemporary Psychedelic Psychiatry” presents a comprehensive, deeply researched ethnographic perspective on current research practices in psychedelic-assisted therapy. This is rapidly evolving terrain scientifically, clinically, legally, and socially. Noorani’s on-the-ground...
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
December 1, 2009
Zoe Drayson
82 citations
The past twenty years have seen an increase in the importance of the body in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. This 'embodied' trend challenges the orthodox view in cognitive science in several ways: it downplays the traditional 'mind-as-computer' approach and emphasizes the role of interactions between the brain, body, and environment. In this article, I review recent work in...
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
September 1, 1996
Eric Gillett
4 citations
Searle and the “Deep Unconscious” Eric Gillett (bio) Abstract The philosopher, John Searle (1992, 1990), has challenged some of the most basic tenets of cognitive psychology, especially the notion of a “deep unconscious” defined as mental processes that are in principle inaccessible to consciousness. In previous papers I have argued for a broad concept of the unconscious which includes in...
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
September 1, 1996
Dan Lloyd
1 citation
Commentary on “Searle and the ‘Deep Unconscious’” Dan Lloyd (bio) Can another person know my thoughts with better authority than I know them myself? With his affirmative answer to this question, Freud invented the twentieth-century human, a being whose mind is accessible to scrutiny from outside, and whose attempts at conscious self-explanation are at best partial and in many cases wrong. Even...
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
June 1, 1996
G. Lynn Stephens
2 citations
Commentary on “Free Will in the Light of Neuropsychiatry” G. Lynn Stephens (bio) A necessary condition of our having free will is that we initiate some of our actions by our own will or decision. Spence argues that, in light of certain empirical findings, we can accept that willing causes action, only if we acknowledge that willing is a non-conscious phenomenon. “If the notion of free will is...