Exploration, Pleasure, and Switching Off: Hollis Phelps

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 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