MAIS 752: Psychedelics and Society: A Critical Overview Report a Broken Link
Week 1
| Required Reading |
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Carhart-Harris, R. L., & Goodwin, G. M. (2017). The therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs: Past, present, and future.
Neuropsychopharmacology, 42(11), 2105-2113. |
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Rodríguez Arce, J. M., & Winkelman, M. J. (2021). Psychedelics, sociality, and human evolution.
Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 729425. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Pollan, M. (2023, November 17). Psychedelics in society and culture: A conversation with Michael Pollan [Video].
YouTube. |
Week 2
| Required Reading |
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Aixalà, M., & Bouso, J.C. (2018). Technical report on psychoactive ethnobotanicals. Volume I-III.
International Centre for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service. |
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Chapter 1, How LSD originated, in Hofmann, A. (1979). LSD, my problem child: Reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science [Ebook].
Generic NL Freebook Publisher. |
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Passie, T., & Benzenhöfer, U. (2016). The history of MDMA as an underground drug in the United States, 1960–1979.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 48(2), 67-75. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Pflugheber, J., & White, S.F. (2024). Microcosms: A homage to sacred plants of the Americas.
Website. |
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Erowid. (1995-2023). Psychoactive plants and drugs.
Website. |
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Government of Canada, Department of Justice. (2024). Justice laws website: Schedule III.
Website. |
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Government of Canada, Health Canada. (2022). Controlled and illegal drugs.
Website. |
Week 3
| Required Reading |
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Goldstein, R. (2019). Ethnobotanies of refusal: Methodologies in respecting plant(ed)‐human resistance.
Anthropology Today, 35(2), 18-22. |
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Sheldrake, M. (2020). The ‘enigma’ of Richard Schultes, Amazonian hallucinogenic plants, and the limits of ethnobotany.
Social Studies of Science, 50(3), 345-376. |
| Other Resources (required) |
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CBC Ideas. (2018). Wade Davis – Light at the edge of the world.
CBC Radio (online audio). |
Week 4
| Required Reading |
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Ens, A. (2021). Silencing indigenous pasts: Critical Indigenous theory and the history of psychedelics
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 34(10), 904-914. |
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Fotiou, E. (2020). The role of Indigenous knowledges in psychedelic science.
Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 4(1), 16-23. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor.
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1). |
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Hauskeller, C., Artinian, T., Fiske, A., Schwarz Marin, E., González Romero, O. S., Luna, L. E., & Sjöstedt-Hughes, P. (2023). Decolonization is a metaphor towards a different ethic. The case from psychedelic studies.
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 48(5), 732-751. |
Week 5
| Required Reading |
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Celidwen, Y., Redvers, N., Githaiga, C., Calambás, J., Añaños, K., Chindoy, M. E., ... & Sacbajá, A. (2023). Ethical principles of traditional Indigenous medicine to guide Western psychedelic research and practice
The Lancet Regional Health–Americas, 18. |
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Williams, K., Romero, O. S. G., Braunstein, M., & Brant, S. (2022). Indigenous philosophies and the "psychedelic renaissance."
Anthropology of Consciousness, 33(2), 506-527. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Sethi, P.S. & Cabral, V. (2024). Decolonizing psychedelics starts with examining your relationship to power.
Double Blind Magazine. |
Week 6
| Required Readings |
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Gandy, S., Forstmann, M., Carhart-Harris, R. L., Timmermann, C., Luke, D., & Watts, R. (2020). The potential synergistic effects between psychedelic administration and nature contact for the improvement of mental health.
Health Psychology Open, 7(2), 2055102920978123. |
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Ruffell, S. G., Gandy, S., Tsang, W., Lopez, R., O’Rourke, N., Akhtar, A., ... & Sarris, J. (2024). Participation in an indigenous Amazonian-led ayahuasca retreat associated with increases in nature relatedness–a pilot study.
Drug Science, Policy and Law, 10, 20503245241235100. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Gandy, S. (2019). Psychedelics and potential benefits in “healthy normals”: A review of the literature.
Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 3(3), 280-287. |
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Gandy, S. (2024). Q & A with Sam Gandy: Psychedelics and connecting with nature.
UC Berkeley Centre for the Science of Psychedelics. |
Week 7
| Required Reading |
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Carvalho, I. C. D. M., Steil, C. A., & Gonzaga, F. A. (2020). Learning from a more-than-human perspective.
Plants as teachers. The Journal of Environmental Education, 51(2), 144-155. |
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Luna, L. E. (1984). The concept of plants as teachers among four mestizo shamans of Iquitos, northeastern Peru.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 11(2), 135-156. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Tupper, K. W. (2002). Entheogens and existential intelligence: The use of plant teachers as cognitive tools.
Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation, 499-516. |
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Williams, K., & Brant, S. (2021). Plant persons, more-than-human power, and institutional practices in Indigenous higher education. In V. Fletcher & A. Dare (Eds.) Intimate Relations: Communicating in the Anthropocene (pp. 197-214).
Lexington Books. |
Week 9
| Required Reading |
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Mintz, K. T., Gammer, B., Khan, A. J., Shaub, G., Levine, S., & Sisti, D. (2022). Physical disability and psychedelic therapies: An agenda for inclusive research and practice.
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 914458. |
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Stauffer, C. S., Brown, M. R., Adams, D., Cassity, M., & Sevelius, J. (2022). MDMA-assisted psychotherapy; Inclusion of transgender and gender diverse people in the frontiers of PTSD treatment trials.
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 932605. |
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Williams, M. T., Cabral, V., & Faber, S. (2024). Psychedelics and racial justice.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 22(2),1-17. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Williams, M.T. (2024, January 20). People of colour should have access to psychedelics.
Open Foundation. Website. |
Week 10
| Required Reading |
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González Romero, O. (2023). Cognitive liberty and the psychedelic humanities.
Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1128996. |
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Walsh, C. (2016). Psychedelics and cognitive liberty: Reimagining drug policy through the prism of human rights.
International Journal of Drug Policy, 29, 80-87. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Farahany, N. (2023, September 11). Nita Farahany is fighting for your cognitive liberty.
The Inner View, TRT World. Website. |
Week 11
| Required Reading |
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Doll, A. (2024). Making "Medical": How psychedelics are becoming legal in Canada.
Dalhousie Law Journal, 47(1), 4. |
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Schwarz-Plaschg, C. (2022). Socio-psychedelic imaginaries: Envisioning and building legal psychedelic worlds in the United States.
European Journal of Futures Research, 10(1), 10. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Plazola, C., Norris, L., Millar, T., & Tabrizi, S. (2020, June 19). Decriminalize Nature US and Canada leaders discuss the psychedelics decriminalization movement.
Psychedelic Association of Canada. |
Week 12
| Required Reading |
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Devenot, N., Conner, T., & Doyle, R. (2022). Dark side of the shroom: Erasing indigenous and counterculture wisdoms with psychedelic capitalism, and the open source alternative: A manifesto for psychonauts.
Anthropology of Consciousness, 33(2), 476-505. |
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Gearin, A. K., & Devenot, N. (2021). Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution.
International Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(6), 917-935. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Martin, J. (2020, February 13). The psychedelic renaissance panel: Psychedelic treatments demystified.
The Jay Martin Show. |
Week 13
| Required Readings |
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McGuire, A. L., Cohen, I. G., Sisti, D., Baggott, M., Celidwen, Y., Devenot, N., ... & Yaden, D. B. (2024). Developing an ethics and policy framework for psychedelic clinical care: A consensus statement.
JAMA Network Open, 7(6), e2414650-e2414650. |
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Pilecki, B., Luoma, J. B., Bathje, G. J., Rhea, J., & Narloch, V. F. (2021). Ethical and legal issues in psychedelic harm reduction and integration therapy.
Harm Reduction Journal, 18(1), 40. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Celidwen, Y., Redvers, N., Githaiga, C., Calambás, J., Añaños, K., Chindoy, M. E., ... & Sacbajá, A. (2023). Ethical principles of traditional Indigenous medicine to guide Western psychedelic research and practice.
The Lancet Regional Health–Americas, 18. |
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Spriggs, M. J., Murphy-Beiner, A., Murphy, R., Bornemann, J., Thurgur, H., & Schlag, A. K. (2023). ARC: a framework for access, reciprocity and conduct in psychedelic therapies.
Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1119115. |
Week 14
| Required Reading |
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Cavarra, M., Falzone, A., Ramaekers, J. G., Kuypers, K. P., & Mento, C. (2022). Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy—A systematic review of associated psychological interventions.
Frontiers in psychology, 13, 887255. |
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Hartogsohn, I. (2016). Set and setting, psychedelics and the placebo response: an extra-pharmacological perspective on psychopharmacology.
Journal of psychopharmacology, 30(12), 1259-1267. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
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Doblin, R. and Gordhamer, S. (2023, August 4). The science of MDMA therapy.
Wisdom 2.0. |
Week 15
| Required Reading |
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Bathje, G. J., Majeski, E., & Kudowor, M. (2022). Psychedelic integration: An analysis of the concept and its practice.
Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 824077. |
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Thal, S. B., Baker, P., Marinis, J., Wieberneit, M., Sharbanee, J. M., Bruno, R., ... & Bright, S. J. (2024). Therapeutic frameworks in integration sessions in substance‐assisted psychotherapy: A systematised review.
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 31(1), e2945. |
| Other Resources (recommended) |
| Aixala, M. & Evans, J. (2022, November 10). Marc Aixala on psychedelic integration. |
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Lengelle, R. (2021). Writing the self in bereavement: A story of love, spousal loss, and resilience.
Routledge. |