Containment Matters: Set and Setting in Contemporary Psychedelic Psychiatry

Over the past decade and a half, psychedelic drug-induced experiences have been returning to psychiatry as promising new healing modalities. The case of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy can inform how we think about context drug use because psychedelics are commonly considered be sensitive ‘[mind]set setting’ their use. As such, epistemic therapeutic concerns amongst researchers therapists over importance set setting interwoven. My ethnography therapeutics both inside outside clinical trials on east coast US from 2015-2019 suggests that there added political economic imperatives contain Working with this insight, I suggest producing immense tend overflow attempts at containment. also identify two qualities central emerging modality psychotherapy. first is labor protecting spaces which reveals an attentiveness disconnection read in tension more commonly-evoked emphasis connection found within discourses. second (as ‘mind-manifesting’) understood reflect self, so doing re-present disagreements nature self thus reflected. Taken together, propose these containment offer analytics for reading contemporary cultural politics