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
Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
Nicolas/Maria Abraham/Torok The Wolf Man's Magic Word
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
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Micha Frazer-Carroll Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
Greta Gerwig / Noah Baumbach Barbie
Vince Gilligan Breaking Bad
Soren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling
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
Larry Rubin All My Mirrors Lie
Andrew Scull Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
Edward Shorter How Everyone Became Depressed
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
