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Psychedelics
- The Revolutionary Drugs That Could Change Your Life – A Guide from the Expert
- Narrated by: Professor David Nutt
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
The definitive guide to psychedelics, science and our health by a world-renowned, leading authority, Professor David Nutt.
We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalisation and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain.
Professor David Nutt, one of the world's leading Neuropsychopharmacologists, has spent 15 years researching this field and it is his most significant body of work to date. In 2018, he co-founded the first academic psychedelic research centre - underpinned by his mission to provide evidence-based information for people everywhere. It revived interest in the understanding and use of this drug in its many forms, including MDMA, ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, LSD and ketamine. The results of this have been nothing short of ground-breaking for the future categorisation of drugs, but also for what we now know about brain mechanisms and our consciousness.
At a time where there is an enormous amount of noise around the benefits of psychedelics, this book contains the knowledge you need to know about a drug that is about to go mainstream, free from the hot air, direct from the expert.
Are you ready to change your mind?
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- avocado
- 22-01-24
a fascinating in-depth of all psychedelic drugs
Dr Nutt's vast knowledge of this subject dismisses many urban legends about psychedelic drugs. He reads his book very well it was worth the time to listen to the book.
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- amazon addict
- 23-08-23
Very good overview on psychedelics.
Really good overview on psychedelics. Based on science but understandable also for lay people.
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- Sc Copeman
- 05-11-23
Superb summary of psychedelic research and development.
Superb, balanced summary of psychedelics. Just can’t beat these books being read by the author - the wealth of knowledge shines through the tone and narration.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-09-23
informative and interesting
the book is an excellent summary of where we are and how we've got to this point. explains the effects of substances the biases and how decisions have been made about there use. really good.
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- EmmaM
- 11-03-24
Fascinating and mind-changing
Wow. What a fascinating round up of the world’s research and findings on psychedelic drugs. The whole book is obviously founded on published scientific research, but what makes it relevant to us lay people is that the findings are always discussed in the context of real human experience. As well as talking about these interesting compounds as medicines, Prof Nutt considers their recreational use, their use in micro doses and their use during ancient rites around the world.
The professor has changed my mind and clarified my thinking on recreational drug use, which is prescient in that I have a pair of inquiring young teenagers who might want to give it a go at some point, and I now feel vastly more equipped to have sensible boundaries and advice for them.
Another thing I love about this audiobook is Professor Nutt’s narration, which in technical/production terms is exemplary (thank God no slimy mouth and tongue noises as I have misophonia). He’s obviously not a performance professional but I loved his reading. He just sounds so incredibly nice, sensible, kindly. I can imagine his patients with trauma or depression or whatever find his, a reassuringly safe pair of hands.
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- Jana
- 12-07-23
Great summery
Easy to follow. Extremely relevant. Great reminder of the urgent need to put patient needs at the centre of drug-law reforms.
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- Sarah Wills-Lee
- 15-08-23
Informative and honest summary of latest evidence
I really enjoyed this book; the history, the science and the politics. Prof Nutt has made this subject informative and accessible. I will probably buy a hard copy so I can dip in and out of the more complex chapters. The science behind psychedelics’ impact on mental health is fascinating and it would be great if government policy changed, psychedelics were regulated and implemented into health regimes for patient benefit. The potential is so exciting.
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- Jim Vaughan
- 03-09-23
Psychedelic Renaissance
For 50 years psychedelics like magic mushrooms, LSD, DMT and Mescaline have been classified as ‘schedule 1’ ie. Dangerous with no medical benefit. In this clear and enlightening book, Prof. Nutt explains the new Science behind psychedelic research, and how psychedelics are transforming psychiatry and psychotherapy in the treatment of depression, PTSD, alcoholism, cluster headaches and fear of death in the terminally I’ll.
He describes the mode of action of the classic psychedelics in the brain on the 5-HT 2a receptor, as well as the areas of the brain most affected forming the Default Mode Network, and goes on to to include the ‘non classical’ psychedelics, such as Ketamine, Ibogaine, Muscimol and MDMA and their neuroscience and uses. The book also includes a chapter on microdosing.
This is a deeply honest book, based on research evidence, and Prof Nutt, who narrates it throughout, makes an impassioned plea for politicians and law makers to replace prejudice and propaganda with evidence, education and science in formulating drug policy for the future. IMHO this book is an important manual for those wishing to understand the greatest step forward in psychiatry in a lifetime.
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- Nicola
- 11-03-24
One of the most interesting books I ever listened to. Kept me gripped and coming back again and again
Loved this book, I’ve recommended it to everyone I meet. So interesting to understand what and how the brain works
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- cool
- 07-11-23
Fantastic research
This book shows an amazing insight into how psychedelics can treat many conditions. It also dispels the urban myth about microdosing as there is no real scientific evidence it works. A full adult dose is used alongside trained therapists.
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