How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us Book

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence is a 2018 book by Michael Pollan. It became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller.

How to Change Your Mind chronicles the long and storied history of psychedelic drugs, from their turbulent 1960s heyday to the resulting countermovement and backlash. Through his coverage of the recent resurgence in this field of research, as well as his own personal use of psychedelics via a “mental travelogue”, Pollan seeks to illuminate not only the mechanics of the drugs themselves, but also the inner workings of the human mind and consciousness.

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America’s most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness

The book is organized into six chapters with an epilogue:

1. A Renaissance
2. Natural History: Bemushroomed
3. History: The First Wave
4. Travelogue: Journeying Underground
5. The Neuroscience: Your Brain on Psychedelics
6. The Trip Treatment: Psychedelics in Psychotherapy

Paperback : 480 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book

The #1 New York Times bestseller.

About the Author:

Michael Pollan is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. He’s also the author of the audiobook Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the Univers