This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry

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After being initially lauded as a treatment for psychosis, electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT) came to be recommended mainly for depression—the energy of the seizure was presumed to release some “vitalizing” substance in the body that would help lift the spirits.

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Perhaps the most extreme manifestation of the 1930s biological approach to psychiatry was lobotomy, an incision through the prefrontal lobes of the brain, invented by António Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, and popularized across the United States by Walter Freeman, a man with negligible surgical training who notoriously used ice-picks to lobotomize his patients through their eye sockets.Our global society is very goal-oriented, so I think many people struggle with motivation because they’re exhausted from constantly striving toward doing everything, all the time, at 110%.

What he sought in his own trips was not communion with a higher consciousness so much as the opportunity to “renovate my everyday mental life.This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health was previously published in 2019 under the title The Heartland. He does so in the breezy prose that has turned his previous books–these include The Omnivore's Dilemma and Cooked, the inspiration for his winning Netflix documentaries of the same name–into bestsellers.

He consumes four different psychedelic tryptamines under suitably controlled conditions – LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca (active ingredient N, N-dimethyltryptamine, sc DMT), and, with shattering results, 5-MeO-DMT, the smoked venom of the Sonoran Desert toad Incilius alvarius – and tells us, as well as he can, what happens.At various points, our author ingests LSD, psilocybin and the crystallized venom of a Sonoran Desert toad. With humility, humor, and deep humanity, he takes us through the history, the characters, and the science of these “mind manifesting” compounds. To desaturate that dried husk with feeling is to see it again for what it is: the loveliest and most deeply rooted of truths, hidden in plain sight. Ultimately, the best motivational book is one that speaks to you, your personality, and the issues that are causing you to feel unmotivated.