Hollis Phelps joins us to talk about the importance of exploration, pleasure, and taking a break—and tells us about psilocybin!

Episode artwork: Pestonji Bomanjee, At Rest (cropped). Public domain image courtesy National Gallery of Modern Art (India) and Wikimedia Commons.

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay

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Nicolas/Maria Abraham/Torok The Wolf Man's Magic Word

Augustine of Hippo

Karl Barth

Emily Chase The Girls of Canby Hall

James Davies Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm than Good

James Davies Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis

Osamu Dazai No Longer Human

Gilles Deleuze

Jacques Derrida

Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov

Micha Frazer-Carroll Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health

Jean Genet

Greta Gerwig / Noah Baumbach Barbie

Vince Gilligan Breaking Bad

Soren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling

Stephen King

Jack Kirby/Stan Lee/Chris Claremont X-Men

Kevin Lambert Querelle of Roberval

Emily Martin Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture

James Michener Poland

Hiroko Oyamada The Hole

Hiroko Oyamada The Factory

Walter N. Pahnke The Good Friday Experiment

Francine Pascal Sweet Valley High

Robert Penn Warren

Larry Rubin All My Mirrors Lie

Andrew Scull Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

W. G. Sebald

William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

Edward Shorter How Everyone Became Depressed

Upton Sinclair

Juan Gabriel Vásquez The Shape of the Ruins

Robert Whitaker Anatomy of an Epidemic

Owen Whooley On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing