如何改變你的心智：迷幻劑的新科學

I picked this up thinking it'd be mostly about trippy visuals, but the chapters on 1940s LSD research and how it shaped early psychology hooked me way more. The science writing is dense but readable, and I finished it in about four nights.

I expected a dry history of LSD research in the 1940s, but the chapters on how these compounds might reshape psychology kept me up way past midnight. The section on the early promise researchers saw in psychedelics genuinely surprised me.

I bought this for a book club, and it ended up sparking the most intense discussion we’ve ever had—the historical sections on the 1940s discovery are fascinating. It’s dense in places, but Pollock’s writing makes the science feel approachable, and I found myself underlining something on nearly every