2024｜啟靈物質、精神醫學與跨文化身體中的自我意識（一）

｜課程資訊

啟靈物質、精神醫學與跨文化身體中的自我意識（一） Psychedelics, Psychiatry, and Self-Consciousness in Different Cultural Bodies I

教授：嚴如玉副教授和洪裕宏榮譽教授 / 陽明交通大學心智哲學研究所
時間：2024/2/22-2024/6/6，每周四，共16週。
地點：國立陽明交通大學陽明校區

｜課程大綱

Psychedelic therapy is a new form of therapy used in psychiatry. It involves using psychedelics, a class of drugs that can induce changes in one’s consciousness, including one’s experience of oneself, time, space, and environment. Using them within therapy has shown promising results. Still, more research is needed to address some ethical concerns about how psychedelics can change one’s personality, attitude toward death, and other core beliefs. One important challenge is that the transformative changes caused by psychedelics are unpredictable to some degree. Thus, it is important to investigate ways of managing the transformative power of psychedelics.

This course is the first part of a year-long course. In the first part of a year-long course, we will learn and discuss the relevant philosophical, anthropological, and clinical literature on psychedelics, psychedelic therapy in psychiatry, and forms of bodily self-consciousness. There will be more fieldwork components in the second part of a year-long course.

｜閱讀材料

Nicolas Langlitz (2012). Neuropsychedelia The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. University of California Press. (Ebook: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt24hsjc)
Damasio, A. (2021). Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious. Pantheon.
Hauskeller, C., & Sjöstedt-Hughes, P. (Eds.). (2023). Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience (Reprint edition). Bloomsbury Academic.
Chan, R. (2023). Transformative Experience. In E. N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (Eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2023). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2023/entriesransformative-experience/
Wen-yuan Lin and John Law. (2022). Thinking differently with Chinese medicine: ‘Explanations’ and case studies for a postcolonial STS https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9315166/
Alex Gearin (2023). On the ambiguity of psychedelic awe in China. Anthropology Today.
Langlitz, N., Dyck, E., Scheidegger, M., & Repantis, D. (2021). Moral Psychopharmacology Needs Moral Inquiry: The Case of Psychedelics. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.680064
Psychedelic Humanities: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/38323/psychedelic-humanities#articles

* To protect intellectual property right, please do not illegally photocopy textbooks.
*The others column of course details includes outside campus visit and seminar.

｜課程表

第1週（2/22）

● Introduction: Neuropsychopharmacology as Spiritual Technology

● 1 Psychedelic Revival

● 2 Swiss Psilocybin and US Dollars

● 3 The Varieties of Psychedelic Lab Experience

閱讀：Nicolas Langlitz (2012). Neuropsychedelia The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. University of California Press.

第2週（2/29） Guest Speakers on Psychedelics Research

Talk title: Psychedelic Psychiatry and Patient Autonomy

Speaker: Alex Gearin (Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong)

第3週（3/07）

● 4 Enacting Experimental Psychoses

● 5 Between Animality and Divinity

● 6 Mystic Materialism

● Conclusion: Fieldwork in Perennial Philosophy

閱讀：Nicolas Langlitz (2012). Neuropsychedelia The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. University of California Press.

第4週（3/14）

● 1. On Being

● 2. About Minds and the New Art of Representation

閱讀：Damasio, A. (2021). Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious. Pantheon.

第5週（3/21）

● 3. On Feelings

● 4. On Consciousness and Knowing

● 5. In All Fairness: An Epilogue

閱讀：Damasio, A. (2021). Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious. Pantheon.

第6週（3/28） 8:00 – 10:00 am 注意上課時間更動！

Guest Speakers on Psychedelics Research

Meet the Author Event: Neuropsychedelia by Nicolas Langlitz from the New School for Social Research

Speaker: Nicolas Langlitz (Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research)

Time: Thursday, March 28 · 8:00 – 10:00am (Time zone: Asia/Taipei)

Google Meet joining info: https://meet.google.com/nnf-yfsg-grw

第7週（4/4）放假

第8週（4/11）

● 1. Transpersonal Gratitude and Psychedelic Altered States of Consciousness, Taline Artinian (University of Exeter, UK)

● 2. What is Real(ity)?, John H. Buchanan (Centre for Process Studies, USA)