History of the Human Sciences

The persistence of the subjective in neuropsychopharmacology: observations of contemporary hallucinogen research

This ethnographic case study of psychedelic research examines the role of first-person subjective experience for researchers and how it influences their paradigm in theory and practice. Langlitz found that while researchers maintain an objectivist façade that maintains the primacy of psychopharmacological techniques such as neuroimaging, most researchers believe that psychedelics can not be explained in pharmacological terms alone, but also depends on set and setting. Therefore, the author urges reconciliation between the fields of psychopharmacology and the human sciences.

Published

March 5, 2010

Journal

History of the Human Sciences

Authors

Langlitz, N.