As an alternative for attendance and your weekly quiz and attendance grade you may submit the following:
Write a single-spaced summary of the major points of all the required readings, videos, and lectures.
Please BOLD the names of the readings/ materials/ concepts from lecture in your post. (Academic citation is NOT necessary in this Review)
Proper grammar and spelling is required.
answer these questions and BOLD the names of the readings/ materials/ concepts
What is the latest research on psychedelics as a treatment for mental health?
What are the business interests around psychedelics?
What are the promises and perils of popularizing these substances – as we quite literally try to CONSUME happiness?
required reading(totally 6=4 links and 2 browse files)
1.
Depression’s Evolutionary Roots (Links to an external site.) Andrews, Paul W. and J. Anderson ThomsonScientific American (2009) link:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/depressions-evolutionary/
2.
The Psychedelic Miracle: How some doctors are risking everything to unleash the healing power of MDMA, ayahuasca and other hallucinogens. (Links to an external site.) Mac McClelland, Rolling Stone (2017) link:https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-psychedelic-miracle-128798/
3.
“My Adventures with the Trip Doctors” (Links to an external site.) Pollan, M, The New York Times (2018)
link:https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/my-adventures-with-the-trip-doctors/
4.
“Can a Trip-Free Psychedelic Still Help People with Depression? (Links to an external site.)
Love, S, Vice (2019) link:https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa748k/psilocybin-for-depression-and-the-world-of-nonhallucinogenic-psychedelics
