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    Psychedelic Identity Shift: A Critical Approach to Set And Setting
    with Neşe Devenot, Aidan Seale-Feldman, Elyse Smith, Albert Garcia-Romeu, and Matthew W. Johnson
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 32 (4): 359-399. 2022.
    ABSTRACT:While the literature on psychedelic medicine emphasizes the importance of set and setting alongside the quality of subjective drug effects for therapeutic efficacy, few scholars have explored the therapeutic frameworks that are used alongside psychedelics in the lab or in the clinic. Based on a narrative analysis of the treatment manual and post-session experience reports from a pilot study of psilocybin-assisted treatment for tobacco smoking cessation, this article examines how therape…Read more
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    Engines of alternative objectivity : re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company
    with Claire Blencowe and Julian Brigstocke
    Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 2018.
    We argue that successful participatory mental health organisations should be seen as ‘engines of alternative objectivity’ rather than as the subjective ‘other’ to objective science. With the term ‘alternative objectivity’, we point to collectivisations of experience that are different to biomedical science but are nonetheless forms of objectivity. Taking inspiration from feminist theory, science studies and sociology of culture, we argue that participatory mental health organisations generate th…Read more
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    Engines of alternative objectivity : re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company
    with Claire Blencowe and Julian Brigstocke
    Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 2018.
    We argue that successful participatory mental health organisations should be seen as ‘engines of alternative objectivity’ rather than as the subjective ‘other’ to objective science. With the term ‘alternative objectivity’, we point to collectivisations of experience that are different to biomedical science but are nonetheless forms of objectivity. Taking inspiration from feminist theory, science studies and sociology of culture, we argue that participatory mental health organisations generate th…Read more
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    Methodology or Muse?
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 28 (3): 227-231. 2021.
    I am 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 container—how they are constructed and maintained, how leaks and overflows are dealt w…Read more