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Dr Tehseen Noorani's Outputs (38)

Dark loops: contagion effects, consistency and chemosocial matrices in psychedelic-assisted therapy trials (2023)
Journal Article
Noorani, T., Bedi, G., & Muthukumaraswamy, S. (2023). Dark loops: contagion effects, consistency and chemosocial matrices in psychedelic-assisted therapy trials. Psychological Medicine, 53(13), 5892-5901. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291723001289

What happens when an emerging programme of medical research overlaps with a surging social movement? In this article we draw on the anthropological term ‘chemosociality’ to describe forms of sociality born of shared chemical exposure. Psychedelic adm... Read More about Dark loops: contagion effects, consistency and chemosocial matrices in psychedelic-assisted therapy trials.

Digital Psychedelia: Hidden Experience and the Challenge of Paranoia (2021)
Journal Article
Noorani, T. (online). Digital Psychedelia: Hidden Experience and the Challenge of Paranoia

Over the past 15 years, several groups of researchers have sought to use clinical trials to reintroduce psychedelics to mainstream society, reporting impressive efficacy from trials at university sites such as Johns Hopkins, New York University and I... Read More about Digital Psychedelia: Hidden Experience and the Challenge of Paranoia.

Containment Matters: Set and Setting in Contemporary Psychedelic Psychiatry (2021)
Journal Article
Noorani, T. (2021). Containment Matters: Set and Setting in Contemporary Psychedelic Psychiatry. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 28(3), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2021.0032

Over the past decade and a half, psychedelic drug-induced experiences have been returning to psychiatry as promising new healing modalities. The case of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy can inform how we think about the context of drug use because... Read More about Containment Matters: Set and Setting in Contemporary Psychedelic Psychiatry.

New Frontiers or a Bursting Bubble? Psychedelic Therapy Beyond the Dichotomy (2021)
Journal Article
Noorani, T., & Martell, J. (2021). New Frontiers or a Bursting Bubble? Psychedelic Therapy Beyond the Dichotomy. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, Article 727050. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.727050

The publication in April 2021 of the Imperial College London Phase II study investigating the efficacy of psilocybin-assisted therapy vs. escitalopram for depression reported differences in the primary outcome measure (the QIDS-SR16) between experime... Read More about New Frontiers or a Bursting Bubble? Psychedelic Therapy Beyond the Dichotomy.

‘You don't take things too seriously or un‐seriously’: Beyond recovery to liminal and liminoid possibility in a community arts and mental health project (2021)
Journal Article
Laver, C., McGrath, L., Liebert, R. J., Noorani, T., Barnes, N., Chase, M., …Wakeling, B. (2021). ‘You don't take things too seriously or un‐seriously’: Beyond recovery to liminal and liminoid possibility in a community arts and mental health project. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 32(4), 653-664. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2583

Recent years have seen a renewed interest in integrating creative activities into statutory mental health practice in high-income countries. In this article, we offer an exploratory analysis of an arts project delivered within UK mental health servic... Read More about ‘You don't take things too seriously or un‐seriously’: Beyond recovery to liminal and liminoid possibility in a community arts and mental health project.

Hallucinations Under Psychedelics and in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Comparison (2020)
Journal Article
Leptourgos, P., Fortier-Davy, M., Carhart-Harris, R., Corlett, P. R., Dupuis, D., Halberstadt, A. L., …Jardri, R. (2020). Hallucinations Under Psychedelics and in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Comparison. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 46(6), 1396-1408. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa117

The recent renaissance of psychedelic science has reignited interest in the similarity of drug-induced experiences to those more commonly observed in psychiatric contexts such as the schizophrenia-spectrum. This report from a multidisciplinary workin... Read More about Hallucinations Under Psychedelics and in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Comparison.

The Psychedelic Revival (2020)
Digital Artefact
Steinhardt, J., & Noorani, T. (2020). The Psychedelic Revival. [Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots Fieldsites]

Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain (2020)
Journal Article
Noorani, T., & Alderson-Day, B. (2020). Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2020(1), Article niaa007. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaa007

In ‘REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Towards a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics’, Carhart-Harris and Friston offer an important analysis of what the predictive processing framework has to offer our understanding of psychedelic experienc... Read More about Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain.

Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare (2020)
Journal Article
Mazanderani, F., Noorani, T., Dudhwala, F., & Kamwendo, Z. T. (2020). Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare. Evidence and Policy, 16(2), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426420x15808912561112

This paper explores how personal experience acquires the status of knowledge and/or evidence in contemporary healthcare contexts that emphasise being both patient-centred and evidence-based. Drawing on a comparative analysis of three case studies ‐ s... Read More about Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare.

Sciencing the mystical: the trickery of the psychedelic trip report (2019)
Journal Article
Noorani, T. (2019). Sciencing the mystical: the trickery of the psychedelic trip report. New Writing, 16(4), 440-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2019.1566375

Science has caught wind of mysticism once again. Operationalising metrics from the writings of perennial philosophers, psychopharmacologists are using psychedelics in a laboratory context to reliably induce ‘mystical experiences’. These experiences a... Read More about Sciencing the mystical: the trickery of the psychedelic trip report.

Deep experiential knowledge: reflections from mutual aid groups for evidence-based practice (2019)
Journal Article
Noorani, T., Karlsson, M., & Borkman, T. (2019). Deep experiential knowledge: reflections from mutual aid groups for evidence-based practice. Evidence and Policy, 15(2), 217-234. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426419x15468575283765

Background: This article charts the relationships between the model of evidence-based practice (EBP), healthcare markets where providers are increasingly competing through the adoption of EBP-certified interventions, and the cultivation of experienti... Read More about Deep experiential knowledge: reflections from mutual aid groups for evidence-based practice.

Psychedelic therapy for smoking cessation: Qualitative analysis of participant accounts (2018)
Journal Article
Noorani, T., Garcia-Romeu, A., Swift, T. C., Griffiths, R. R., & Johnson, M. W. (2018). Psychedelic therapy for smoking cessation: Qualitative analysis of participant accounts. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 32(7), 756-769. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881118780612

Background: Recent pilot trials suggest feasibility and potential efficacy of psychedelic-facilitated addiction treatment interventions. Fifteen participants completed a psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation pilot study between 2009 and 2015. Aims... Read More about Psychedelic therapy for smoking cessation: Qualitative analysis of participant accounts.

Conducting Qualitative Research With Psychedelic Psychopharmacologists: Challenges of Co-Production in an Era of Interdisciplinarity (2017)
Journal Article
Noorani, T. (online). Conducting Qualitative Research With Psychedelic Psychopharmacologists: Challenges of Co-Production in an Era of Interdisciplinarity. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526404862

From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow with a team of pharmacologists experimenting with psilocybin, an illegal psychoactive compound found in psychedelic mushrooms. The team had conducted an open-label clinical trial with long... Read More about Conducting Qualitative Research With Psychedelic Psychopharmacologists: Challenges of Co-Production in an Era of Interdisciplinarity.

Psychedelic Nonwriting (2016)
Book Chapter
Noorani, T. (2016). Psychedelic Nonwriting. In J. Brigstocke, & T. Noorani (Eds.), Listening With Non-human Others. ARN Press

Launching More-than-human Investigations (2016)
Book Chapter
Noorani, T., & Liebert, R. (2016). Launching More-than-human Investigations. In J. Brigstocke, & T. Noorani (Eds.), Listening with Non-human Others. ARN Press

Participatory Research and the Medicalization of Research Ethics Processes (2016)
Journal Article
Noorani, T., Charlesworth, A., Kite, A., & McDermont, M. (2017). Participatory Research and the Medicalization of Research Ethics Processes. Social and Legal Studies, 26(3), 378-400. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663916677561

This article illustrates how medicalized epistemologies and methodologies significantly influence the institutional ethical review processes applied to sociolegal research in law schools. It argues this development has elevated particular renderings... Read More about Participatory Research and the Medicalization of Research Ethics Processes.

Posthuman Attunements: Aesthetics, Authority and the Arts of Creative Listening (2016)
Journal Article
Brigstocke, J., & Noorani, T. (2016). Posthuman Attunements: Aesthetics, Authority and the Arts of Creative Listening. Geohumanities, 2(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2016.1167618

This introduction to the themed section on attunement explores the varied practices, politics, and aesthetics of attuning to more-than-human voices, temporalities, and material processes. What happens when we attempt to attune ourselves to forms of a... Read More about Posthuman Attunements: Aesthetics, Authority and the Arts of Creative Listening.

Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation: Abstinence outcomes and qualitative analysis of participant accounts (2015)
Journal Article
Garcia-Romeu, A. P., Noorani, T., Griffiths, R. R., & Johnson, M. W. (2015). Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation: Abstinence outcomes and qualitative analysis of participant accounts. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 156, Article e78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.07.1130

Aims: We assessed long-term (>12 months) outcomes of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation, and qualitatively analyzed participants’ accounts to inform potential psychological mechanisms of treatment efficacy. Methods: Fifteen individuals who comp... Read More about Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation: Abstinence outcomes and qualitative analysis of participant accounts.

Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach (2015)
Journal Article
Blencowe, C., Brigstocke, J., & Noorani, T. (2015). Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach. Social Theory & Health, 13(3-4), 397-417. https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2015.23

Health inequalities research has shown a growing interest in participatory ways of working. However, the theoretical ideas underpinning mainstream approaches to participation remain underexplored. This article contributes to theorising participatory... Read More about Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach.

Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company (2015)
Journal Article
Blencowe, C., Brigstocke, J., & Noorani, T. (2018). Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 22(3), 205-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459315590246

Through two case studies, the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company, we demonstrate how successful participatory organisations can be seen as ‘engines of alternative objectivity’ rather than as the subjective other to objective, bi... Read More about Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company.

Participating with Objects (2013)
Book Chapter
Noorani, T. (2013). Participating with Objects. In T. Noorani, C. Blencowe, & J. Brigstocke (Eds.), Problems of Participation: Reflections on Authority, Democracy and the Struggle for Common Life. ARN Press

Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health (2013)
Journal Article
Noorani, T. (2013). Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health. Journal of Political Power, 6(1), 49-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2013.774979

This article re-examines the politics of engagement of the UK mental health service user and survivor movement by focusing upon the mental health ‘expert-by-experience’. Using qualitative data, I illustrate how the service user and survivor movement... Read More about Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health.