uniMIND Central Session #14 – Dark Loops: Contagion Effects, Consistency and Chemosocial Matrices in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Trials

Join us in February to discuss Dark Loops: Contagion Effects, Consistency and Chemosocial Matrices in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Trials with first author Dr. Tehseen Noorani.

Find the open access article in Journal of Psychological Medicine

About the format:

uniMIND Central Sessions are part of the global uniMIND journal club network. During the semester, the Central Sesssions take place monthly, each fourth Wednesday of the month, usually at 7 pm CET/CEST.

For each session, we invite authors of research papers from a wide variety of disciplines. While the session is mostly guided by a moderator, all attendees are invited to actively partake through comments or questions. This is a great opportunity to learn about the processes behind and between the literary lines and to get in touch with researchers!

Come one, come all – but please prepare the assigned paper.

About the author:

Tehseen Noorani studies the co-evolving epistemics, therapeutics & economics of extreme experiences. He is an interdisciplinary social scientist, currently holding research positions in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Anthropology Department at Durham University in the UK. Over the past decade he has traced the renewed scientific and therapeutic interest in psychedelic experiences, exploring implications for theories of psychopathology and approaches to mental healthcare.
Weaving together scientific, spiritual and aesthetic registers, his research is situated in the context of medicalisation in the global North and the ongoing ‘war on drugs’. Tehseen also focuses on methodological issues that arise in the study of psychedelics, partly through convening the ‘Reimagining Psychedelic Trials’ interdisciplinary working group. He is part-time scholar-in-residence at Tactogen Public Benefit Corporation and an Ambassador to Fireside Project.