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In How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan explores the history, science, and therapeutic potential of psychedelics, blending history, memoir, and research. He recounts the rise and fall of early psychedelic studies, details his personal experiences with substances like LSD and psilocybin, and explains how these drugs are used in contemporary treatments for conditions like depression, addiction, and anxiety. The importance of ego dissolution and spiritual experience in psychedelic therapy is emphasized. The book includes discussions of end-of-life anxiety in terminal cancer patients.