Ten trips

Andy Mitchell

Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'breakthrough therapy', used to treat depression, trauma and addiction and to enhance well-being. But as neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell shows in this deeply serious yet wildly entertaining investigation, this approach misses what is so strange and valuable about them: the psychedelic experience itself. In 'Ten Trips' he takes ten different compounds, some famous, others obscure, journeying from a neuroimaging lab in London to the Colombian Amazon via Silicon Valley and his friend's basement kitchen. His encounters with scientists and gangsters, venture capitalists and con-men, psychonauts and shamans provide a panoramic view of psychedelics today: their capacity for healing but also trauma, for transcendence and corruption, profundity and hilarity.

Author(s): Mitchell, Andy
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 06/06/2024
Pagination: 352 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Vintage
Published By: Vintage
Book Classification: Popular science|Popular science|Social & cultural anthropology|Coping with drug & alcohol problems|Coping with drug & alcohol problems|Popular psychology|Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice|Complementary therapies, healing & health|Reportage & collected journalism
Dimensions: 198x130x22
Weight: 247
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781529923735