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Woo and the Nature of Man – new pages dedicated to Research
Featuring initial findings on why men choose psychedelics to aid wellbeing, often over established health services
Why are many men choosing psychedelics to help aid their wellbeing? Often instead of established health services?
I’m finding out in this ongoing project filed under ‘Research’ in the website menus undertaken during postgraduate study in Psychedelic Studies from The University of Exeter, UK.
Woo and the Nature of Man looks the price of mens’ mental ill health on society, the high numbers of men dropping out of talk therapy programs, and why many men are seemingly turning to psychedelics for improved health and wellbeing instead. Its goal is to ‘study the potential of emerging health and performance strategies, plus their autonomous application’ – in other words, find reliable new ways to sort ourselves out.
Naturally I’d be delighted to share my findings at upcoming conferences and seminars – get in touch here. I’ve already presented on ‘What can services learn from men seeking psychedelic treatment?’ at Exeter University’s Psychedelic Integration Conference, and about ‘How psychedelics help men engage with spiriutality’ at Psychology and the Other in London.
I ripped off the title Woo and the Nature of Man from the first workplace motivation guiode for managers, Work and the Nature of Man witten 1967 by Frederick Herzbergis. The research is at its conceptual stage (ahem) which means I’m deep-diving for themes in the relevant academic literature that add to or inform the data I’ve picked up personally, in what I now refer to as ‘male spaces’.
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