The Psychedelic Renaissance: Reassessing the Role of Psychedelic Drugs in 21st Century Psychiatry and Society by Ben Sessa, Muswell Hill Press, 2012, £16.95, pb, 240 pp. ISBN: 9781908995001

Sarabjeet Kohli

doi:10.1192/pb.bp.112.042275

Abstract

The Psychedelic Renaissance: Reassessing the Role of Psychedelic Drugs in 21st Century Psychiatry and Society by Ben Sessa, Muswell Hill Press, 2012, £16.95, pb, 240 pp. ISBN: 9781908995001 - Volume 37 Issue 5

Highlights

With its centrality to psychoanalytic thought, excretion was once essential to the understanding of human motivation and personality
Many clinicians hold the simple view that cannabis exacerbates psychosis and heroin dependence is treated with substitute prescribing, and have little exposure to patients who misuse psychedelics
This in itself is a clue to understanding the essence of this book, namely that psychedelic use is more prevalent than either cannabis or heroin use, this is not reflected in clinical practice, nor is it reflected in medical education

Summary

Introduction

With its centrality to psychoanalytic thought, excretion was once essential to the understanding of human motivation and personality. Writes Professor Nick Haslam, author of Psychology in the Bathroom. Psychology journals on eating disorders abound, Haslam writes, but there is not a single title devoted to the terminal end of the digestive system.

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