Mushroom Medicine
Reportage & memoirThe clinical era
Using psilocybin as medicine, recounted with no clinician in the room.
Decomposing the Shadow: Lessons from the Psilocybin Mushroom
Reportage & memoirThe revivalMemoir & experience
What it is
A first-person account, published in 2013, that lays out the author's personal psychological model of the psilocybin mushroom experience. James W. Jesso frames the experience around emotional processing and "shadow work" - confronting suppressed or difficult parts of the self - and describes how he interpreted his own sessions. It is an experiential and reflective book written for a general audience, not a clinical or research text, and is widely read among people exploring the subjective side of the psilocybin conversation.
The record
- Author
- James W. Jesso
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- SoulsLantern Publishing
- ISBN
- 9780991943517
- Kind
- Reportage & memoir
- Subject
- Memoir & experience
- Era
- The revival
- Links checked
- 31 Jul 2026, and they resolved.
Where to find it
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