This new collection of essays explores the ways in which trauma culture has hijacked the psychedelic revolution, co-opting substances traditionally used for divination, healing, and mind expansion, and using them to reinforce systems of disempowerment and control.

Inspired by James Hillman’s critical analysis of psychotherapy in the 1990s, Brian James puts psychedelic therapy on the proverbial couch and gives it a taste of its own medicine: challenging the limiting beliefs that form its central doctrine, and prescribing a treatment plan to put the soul back into psychedelics.