Spotlight "Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson’s Liberating Masturbation" (Sutton, 2024)

"Melding sexology, aesthetics, technology, and an unabashed libidinal energy, Dodson advocates for collective, erotic pedagogy as a source of knowledge production. In doing so, her work carves out a space for pleasure and joy in the messiness of lived experience."

Michael DeMarco, PhD

15 Apr 2025

"Dodson rose to prominence in the early 1970s as a sex educator who both repopularized the vibrator and facilitated group masturbation workshops. In spite of this pop-cultural embrace, there have been no sustained critical accounts of her work."

"A space for pleasure and joy in the messiness of the lived experience" is the antidote.

Spotlight: Rethinking Infidelity... a talk for anyone who has ever loved -- Esther Perel (2015)

"we still seem to be lured by the power of the forbidden"

Pre-order: Psychedelics in Palliative Care, Marcia Glass, Ed., Oxford University Press

with contributions by Psychedelic Institute fellows, Michael DeMarco, PhD and Thaís Salles Araujo, MD on ketamine, psilocybin mushrooms in palliative care

Investigación: Ketaminas Efectos antidepresivos Rapid enmaunados Brain-Wide

El despliegue de un análisis de fluctuación cerebral a escala de mesoscale desvela la compleja orquestación neuronal multirregional subyacente a efectos antidepresivos rápidos de la ketamina, un plan para la innovación terapéutica futura...

Spotlight: Ketamine’s Rapid Antidepressant Effects Mapped Brain-Wide + μ-opioid receptor?

"The deployment of mesoscale brain-wide fluctuation analysis unveils the complex, multiregional neural orchestration underlying ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects, a blueprint for future therapeutic innovation... insights gained from this research hold transformative promise..."

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Spotlight: Rethinking Infidelity... a talk for anyone who has ever loved -- Esther Perel (2015)

Pre-order: Psychedelics in Palliative Care, Marcia Glass, Ed., Oxford University Press

Investigación: Ketaminas Efectos antidepresivos Rapid enmaunados Brain-Wide

Spotlight: Ketamine’s Rapid Antidepressant Effects Mapped Brain-Wide + μ-opioid receptor?