Documentary
How to Change Your Mind
2022Directed by Alison Ellwood and Lucy Walker · With Michael Pollan · Four-part series
Four parts, each focused on a different mind-altering substance: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and mescaline. With author Michael Pollan as guide, the series travels to the frontiers of the psychedelic renaissance and looks back at almost-forgotten history to explore the potential of these substances to heal and change minds, and culture.
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Key themes
PsychedelicsTherapeutic researchDrug historyConsciousnessHealing
Why it belongs here
It brings current psychedelic research into view for a general reader, alongside the history that shaped it, and it sits well beside the site's Emerging Therapies material.
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