“Psychedelic Projections: Hidden Narratives Shaping Psychedelic Medicine”

Franklin King, CSWR, Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology

Franklin King draws from his experience as a Mass General Hospital psychiatrist to explore the hidden narratives often underlying conversations about psychedelics. King argues that revealing these narratives is necessary to understand disagreements about psychedelic treatment and the ways that psychedelics become metonyms for larger philosophical and ideological agendas. This, in turn, will allow psychedelic researchers and advocates to free themselves from the flawed assumption that psychedelics alone will change the world.