Methodology or Muse?
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology 2021 DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2021.0035 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Ethnography Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Attendance Ethnography Normative Relation database Centrality Public relations Aesthetics Criminology Epistemology Media studies Law Anthropology |
| Key findings | The author argues that concerns over set, setting, and containment are remaking psychedelic practices and discourses in clinical and non-clinical contexts, affecting both therapeutics and social justice. |
Abstract
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 be asked of any containerhow they are constructed and maintained, how leaks and overflows are dealt with, the work done by their boundaries, and relationship of these containers to their contents. There are undoubtedly more questions but these are the ones I found fruitful to think with. My goal was to explore how the concerns over set and setting, and containment, are themselves remaking psychedelic practices and discourses, both inside and outside of clinical trials and in relation to both therapeutics and calls for social justice.