Decomposing the Shadow
Reportage & memoirThe revival
One person's psychological model of the mushroom experience, built from his own.
Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History
Reportage & memoirThe clinical eraMemoir & experience
What it is
A first-person account in which Brian Jackson recounts his own use of psilocybin mushrooms, both recreationally and as what he frames as a personal medicine, and folds in summaries of university research then under way on psilocybin for obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and anxiety. The book also traces how psychedelic plants and fungi were used across religious and cultural history. It sits between memoir and a lay overview of the therapeutic research lane, reflecting the state of the evidence as of 2015.
The record
- Author
- Brian Jackson
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Inkwater Press
- ISBN
- 9781619336100
- Kind
- Reportage & memoir
- Subject
- Memoir & experience
- Era
- The clinical era
- Links checked
- 31 Jul 2026, and they resolved.
Where to find it
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