Tehseen Noorani
@tehseennoorani.bsky.social
Interested in the co-evolving epistemics, therapeutics & economics of extreme experiences.
Co-lead, http://www.psychedelictherapynz.org; Dadx2
Co-lead, http://www.psychedelictherapynz.org; Dadx2
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Community Strategising about Psychedelic Therapy in Aotearoa is an 18-month, philanthropically-funded project to cultivate relationships within and between communities who have a stake in the roll-out of psychedelic therapies in Aotearoa New Zealand.
‘Science’s “Savage Slot”: The appropriation and erasure of Indigenous science in the psychedelic renaissance’ by @emiliasana.bsky.social
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Science’s “Savage Slot”: The appropriation and erasure of Indigenous science in the psychedelic renaissance
This article examines the operations of what Trouillot named the “Savage slot” in psychedelic science. Indigenous efforts to break out of the “Savage …
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October 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‘Science’s “Savage Slot”: The appropriation and erasure of Indigenous science in the psychedelic renaissance’ by @emiliasana.bsky.social
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Classical randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can't capture the complexity of psychedelic therapy.
In this new paper led by @sdmuthu.bsky.social and @tehseennoorani.bsky.social, we argue for pragmatic trials designs that accommodate this complexity and better align with real-world clinical practice.
In this new paper led by @sdmuthu.bsky.social and @tehseennoorani.bsky.social, we argue for pragmatic trials designs that accommodate this complexity and better align with real-world clinical practice.
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Classical randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can't capture the complexity of psychedelic therapy.
In this new paper led by @sdmuthu.bsky.social and @tehseennoorani.bsky.social, we argue for pragmatic trials designs that accommodate this complexity and better align with real-world clinical practice.
In this new paper led by @sdmuthu.bsky.social and @tehseennoorani.bsky.social, we argue for pragmatic trials designs that accommodate this complexity and better align with real-world clinical practice.
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New paper out with @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @maxwolff.bsky.social and orhers, showing that the UK Medical Research Council's framework for complex interventions offer an important way foward for the field of #psychedelics:
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Psychedelic-assisted therapy as a complex intervention: implications for clinical trial design
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October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New paper out with @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @maxwolff.bsky.social and orhers, showing that the UK Medical Research Council's framework for complex interventions offer an important way foward for the field of #psychedelics:
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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If you're anywhere in Australia at the end of Nov then I'd suggest you make your way here. This is the first outdoor entheogenesis conference in 8 yrs. An incredible event with a sharp line up of speakers. @mikejay.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @pyrodelic.bsky.social @gmantic.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If you're anywhere in Australia at the end of Nov then I'd suggest you make your way here. This is the first outdoor entheogenesis conference in 8 yrs. An incredible event with a sharp line up of speakers. @mikejay.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @pyrodelic.bsky.social @gmantic.bsky.social
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A few moments from our ongoing MESEC 2025 Workshop (‘Centering Experience in Mental Health: Uniting Psychiatry and Consciousness Science’) at the beautiful Lago di Bolsena!
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@tehseennoorani.bsky.social
@lucieberko.bsky.social
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September 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A few moments from our ongoing MESEC 2025 Workshop (‘Centering Experience in Mental Health: Uniting Psychiatry and Consciousness Science’) at the beautiful Lago di Bolsena!
@lucieberko.bsky.social
@tehseennoorani.bsky.social
@lucieberko.bsky.social
@tehseennoorani.bsky.social
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How much is the psychedelic experience influenced by what we see, hear and read? We made a way to measure it: The Psychedelic Media Exposure Questionnaire - developed by Audrey Evers, Chris Kelly, @shaylalove.bsky.social , @tehseennoorani.bsky.social, validated on >600 respondents. Link below:
The Psychedelic Media Exposure Questionnaire: The development and validation of a new scale assessing psychedelic-related media exposure
Rationale: A reliable and valid instrument is needed to measure exposure to psychedelic-related media to examine the impact of media and expectations on outcomes in psychedelic clinical trials. Object...
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July 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
How much is the psychedelic experience influenced by what we see, hear and read? We made a way to measure it: The Psychedelic Media Exposure Questionnaire - developed by Audrey Evers, Chris Kelly, @shaylalove.bsky.social , @tehseennoorani.bsky.social, validated on >600 respondents. Link below:
A promising approach
Glad to see this paper out finally. Well done @trpwolff.bsky.social for driving it!
I think this idea has potential for significant impact in psychedelic drug development.
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I think this idea has potential for significant impact in psychedelic drug development.
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June 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A promising approach
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This was a great read and I'm sorry to have missed it until now. Offers a "rendi epistemology", reviving the lost figure of the rend - the “pious rogue” of Islamicate drug histories - as a way of moving beyond coloniality/modernity in drug studies
This was a great read and I'm sorry to have missed it until now. Offers a "rendi epistemology", reviving the lost figure of the rend - the “pious rogue” of Islamicate drug histories - as a way of moving beyond coloniality/modernity in drug studies
The Pluriverse of Intoxication: Words, Lives, Worlds in Islamicate History | The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 36, No 2
Abstract This article establishes a conceptual framework for decolonial drug histories and, at the same time, moves beyond decolonization. It brings back the radical alterity of historical figures of ...
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June 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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This was a great read and I'm sorry to have missed it until now. Offers a "rendi epistemology", reviving the lost figure of the rend - the “pious rogue” of Islamicate drug histories - as a way of moving beyond coloniality/modernity in drug studies
This was a great read and I'm sorry to have missed it until now. Offers a "rendi epistemology", reviving the lost figure of the rend - the “pious rogue” of Islamicate drug histories - as a way of moving beyond coloniality/modernity in drug studies
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New in @naturemedicine.bsky.social
"An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials" by Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, Kyle Greenway, myself, and many ReSPCT Experts." nature.com/articles/s41...
"An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials" by Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, Kyle Greenway, myself, and many ReSPCT Experts." nature.com/articles/s41...
An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials - Nature Medicine
A large international panel of experts reach consensus on a new standard for reporting settings in psychedelic trials, identifying 30 key non-pharmacological factors to strengthen the rigor of psyched...
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June 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New in @naturemedicine.bsky.social
"An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials" by Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, Kyle Greenway, myself, and many ReSPCT Experts." nature.com/articles/s41...
"An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials" by Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, Kyle Greenway, myself, and many ReSPCT Experts." nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sharing this "Mad in America" review of our recent article on the commercialisation of psychedelic integration www.madinamerica.com/.../from-hea...
The link to the original article (co-written with Luís Fernando Tófoli) is in the comments below
The link to the original article (co-written with Luís Fernando Tófoli) is in the comments below
From Healing to Commodity: The Global North’s Approach to Psychedelic Therapy
A new study critiques how Western psychology has stripped psychedelics of their communal and transformative potential, turning them into marketable, individualistic treatments.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sharing this "Mad in America" review of our recent article on the commercialisation of psychedelic integration www.madinamerica.com/.../from-hea...
The link to the original article (co-written with Luís Fernando Tófoli) is in the comments below
The link to the original article (co-written with Luís Fernando Tófoli) is in the comments below
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Australia was the first country to permit prescribing MDMA outside clinical trials. This creates a fascinating situation where a treatment is accessible but no approved products exist. This is important to watch as it might tell us something about what will happen in the US when FDA approval occurs.
February 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Australia was the first country to permit prescribing MDMA outside clinical trials. This creates a fascinating situation where a treatment is accessible but no approved products exist. This is important to watch as it might tell us something about what will happen in the US when FDA approval occurs.
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Excited to see the publication of our commentary on the need for a better psychedelic safety net. Much appreciation to @philosojules.bsky.social and CPEP for being such a catalyst for good work on this topic!
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On Minimizing Risk and Harm in the Use of Psychedelics
Objective This article outlines recommendations from 30 psychedelic researchers on how to create a better psychedelic safety net. Methods A survey of 30 psychedelic researchers asked them to ident...
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February 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Excited to see the publication of our commentary on the need for a better psychedelic safety net. Much appreciation to @philosojules.bsky.social and CPEP for being such a catalyst for good work on this topic!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1176/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1176/...
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Just came across this fascinating 2024 DMT study I missed - participants who were interrupted during their DMT experience (by having to give ratings) showed significantly less reduction in depressive symptoms compared to those left undisturbed. Important implications for psychedelic therapy. 🧵
February 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Just came across this fascinating 2024 DMT study I missed - participants who were interrupted during their DMT experience (by having to give ratings) showed significantly less reduction in depressive symptoms compared to those left undisturbed. Important implications for psychedelic therapy. 🧵
Hard not to see these arrangements from our 2 year old at the end of each night as provocations
January 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Hard not to see these arrangements from our 2 year old at the end of each night as provocations
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Sarah Zeines asks if hospitals are the best setting for psychedelic medicine, following some patients' complaints about Swiss PAT programme. Includes comments from @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @beccakacanda.bsky.social @jameslkent.bsky.social + many others. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/are-hospit...
Are hospitals the best setting for psychedelic medicine?
The Swiss psychedelic medicine programme considers some patients' complaints
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January 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Sarah Zeines asks if hospitals are the best setting for psychedelic medicine, following some patients' complaints about Swiss PAT programme. Includes comments from @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @beccakacanda.bsky.social @jameslkent.bsky.social + many others. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/are-hospit...
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A welcome philosophical intervention on the topic of experiential knowledge! Brings the EK literature up to date, in ways that interface with cog sci & is rich for those wanting to analyse knowledge of psychedelics based upon experience (as opposed2eg trial data)
A welcome philosophical intervention on the topic of experiential knowledge! Brings the EK literature up to date, in ways that interface with cog sci & is rich for those wanting to analyse knowledge of psychedelics based upon experience (as opposed2eg trial data)
Frontiers | Being in a position to know: attuned responsiveness as the hallmark of experiential knowledge and expertise in mental healthcare
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January 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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A welcome philosophical intervention on the topic of experiential knowledge! Brings the EK literature up to date, in ways that interface with cog sci & is rich for those wanting to analyse knowledge of psychedelics based upon experience (as opposed2eg trial data)
A welcome philosophical intervention on the topic of experiential knowledge! Brings the EK literature up to date, in ways that interface with cog sci & is rich for those wanting to analyse knowledge of psychedelics based upon experience (as opposed2eg trial data)
Lovely short piece on psychedelic trip intention-making as rite of sacralization
Thrilled my essay about intention setting rituals is finally live! This piece is drawn from my ongoing ethnographic research into novel psychedelic churches and is part of the Psychedelic Intersections anthology, to be released later this month.
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With Best Intention: Psychedelic Intention-Setting Rituals as Rites of Sacralization | Center for the Study of World Religions
This essay assesses the ritual function of psychedelic intention-setting ceremonies, using ethnographic data from Burning Man 2023. The piece argues that intention settings are rites of separation tha...
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January 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Lovely short piece on psychedelic trip intention-making as rite of sacralization
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I encourage everyone to read through Compass' latest description of their "psychological support" model. If this is not in fact psychotherapy, then nothing is.
Ironically, this is most evident whenever the authors apparently aim to differentiate their model from (their idea of) psychotherapy, e.g.:
Ironically, this is most evident whenever the authors apparently aim to differentiate their model from (their idea of) psychotherapy, e.g.:
January 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I encourage everyone to read through Compass' latest description of their "psychological support" model. If this is not in fact psychotherapy, then nothing is.
Ironically, this is most evident whenever the authors apparently aim to differentiate their model from (their idea of) psychotherapy, e.g.:
Ironically, this is most evident whenever the authors apparently aim to differentiate their model from (their idea of) psychotherapy, e.g.:
Another one! Every region should have a @mikejay.bsky.social reading group
January 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Another one! Every region should have a @mikejay.bsky.social reading group
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This analysis of the state of Netflix film production has some great one liners, including customer experience as “managed dissatisfaction”, a movie as “an accounting trick”, and movies as “designed to be played but not watched”
This analysis of the state of Netflix film production has some great one liners, including customer experience as “managed dissatisfaction”, a movie as “an accounting trick”, and movies as “designed to be played but not watched”
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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December 29, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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This analysis of the state of Netflix film production has some great one liners, including customer experience as “managed dissatisfaction”, a movie as “an accounting trick”, and movies as “designed to be played but not watched”
This analysis of the state of Netflix film production has some great one liners, including customer experience as “managed dissatisfaction”, a movie as “an accounting trick”, and movies as “designed to be played but not watched”
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It's been another very busy year at Psychedelic Alpha!
To kick off our 2024 Year In Review, I look back at 11 of our stories from the year gone by: from the Lykos saga through to funding grants from NIDA and the EU...
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To kick off our 2024 Year In Review, I look back at 11 of our stories from the year gone by: from the Lykos saga through to funding grants from NIDA and the EU...
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Psychedelic Alpha’s Top 11 Stories from 2024 - Psychedelic Alpha
As we come to the end of another year, we’re kicking off our Year in Review with a look back at some of our top articles from 2024.
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December 26, 2024 at 9:07 PM
It's been another very busy year at Psychedelic Alpha!
To kick off our 2024 Year In Review, I look back at 11 of our stories from the year gone by: from the Lykos saga through to funding grants from NIDA and the EU...
psychedelicalpha.com/news/psyched...
To kick off our 2024 Year In Review, I look back at 11 of our stories from the year gone by: from the Lykos saga through to funding grants from NIDA and the EU...
psychedelicalpha.com/news/psyched...
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Call for submissions! Join us in Basel for the 2025 Basel-Oxford-NUS Experimental Bioethics -- BioXPhi -- Summit | Hosted at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics | University of Basel - JUNE 25-27, 2025. Co-sponsored @NUS_CBmE @ethicsinthenews
Basel-Oxford-NUS BioXPhi Summit 2025 | Institute for Biomedical Ethics | University of Basel
Institute for Biomedical Ethics
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December 17, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Call for submissions! Join us in Basel for the 2025 Basel-Oxford-NUS Experimental Bioethics -- BioXPhi -- Summit | Hosted at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics | University of Basel - JUNE 25-27, 2025. Co-sponsored @NUS_CBmE @ethicsinthenews
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exeter.ac.uk/study/online/courses/msc-psychedelics/
The world’s first* master’s degree in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture is now open for enrolment. Join the wonderful group at Exeter for a phantastic online course that covers psychedelia via science, philosophy, and much more.
The world’s first* master’s degree in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture is now open for enrolment. Join the wonderful group at Exeter for a phantastic online course that covers psychedelia via science, philosophy, and much more.
December 16, 2024 at 10:12 AM
exeter.ac.uk/study/online/courses/msc-psychedelics/
The world’s first* master’s degree in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture is now open for enrolment. Join the wonderful group at Exeter for a phantastic online course that covers psychedelia via science, philosophy, and much more.
The world’s first* master’s degree in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture is now open for enrolment. Join the wonderful group at Exeter for a phantastic online course that covers psychedelia via science, philosophy, and much more.
Useful analysis & examples complicating the polarised discourse that has given rise to ‘pill-shaming’ around psych meds
I had a bad week. So I've been thinking about antipsychotics. Now I blogged about it. People CAN suffer from "internalized stigma" about medication, but the term can also be overused to dismiss real problems. jeppssonphilosopherauthor.blogspot.com/2024/12/psyc...
Psych drugs, food, and internalized stigma
I had it bad this past week. Probably a bit overworked towards the end of the semester. Monday morning, when I looked in the bathroom mirro...
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December 16, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Useful analysis & examples complicating the polarised discourse that has given rise to ‘pill-shaming’ around psych meds
Reposted by Tehseen Noorani
We’re launching the Monash Psychedelic Education Program in 2025! Registrations are NOW OPEN for undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychedelic science and therapies! Options for EVERYONE, ANYWHERE. Clinical training coming in 2026! Visit: www.monash.edu/psychedelic-education
December 10, 2024 at 5:10 AM
We’re launching the Monash Psychedelic Education Program in 2025! Registrations are NOW OPEN for undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychedelic science and therapies! Options for EVERYONE, ANYWHERE. Clinical training coming in 2026! Visit: www.monash.edu/psychedelic-education