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Michael Pollan returned to the John Adams on December 11, 2018, to discuss his new book 'How To Change Your Mind' with renowned psychiatrist Damiaan Denys. In this new book Pollan has moved on from his research on food to delve into the world of psychedelics and their medical use. In the past decade, there has been renewed interest in psychedelic research as a form of psychiatric therapy, and to Pollan’s mind this renaissance is long overdue.
In this book, Pollan is not only an outsider citing studies on the effectiveness of these drugs to treat depression, anxiety, existential trauma and addiction, but he also describes his own first-hand psychedelic experiences with LSD, magic mushrooms and much more. He calls himself ‘a reluctant psychonaut’.
Pollan makes a strong case for researching these drugs further and will discuss this with professor and head of the psychiatry department at the AMC Amsterdam, Damiaan Denys. Denys is specialized in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders and the applicability of deep brain stimulation in healing these patients.
This video was recorded on December 11, 2018.
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Michael Pollan returned to the John Adams on December 11, 2018, to discuss his new book 'How To Change Your Mind' with renowned psychiatrist Damiaan Denys. In this new book Pollan has moved on from his research on food to delve into the world of psychedelics and their medical use. In the past decade, there has been renewed interest in psychedelic research as a form of psychiatric therapy, and to Pollan’s mind this renaissance is long overdue.
In this book, Pollan is not only an outsider citing studies on the effectiveness of these drugs to treat depression, anxiety, existential trauma and addiction, but he also describes his own first-hand psychedelic experiences with LSD, magic mushrooms and much more. He calls himself ‘a reluctant psychonaut’.
Pollan makes a strong case for researching these drugs further and will discuss this with professor and head of the psychiatry department at the AMC Amsterdam, Damiaan Denys. Denys is specialized in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders and the applicability of deep brain stimulation in healing these patients.
This video was recorded on December 11, 2018.
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