I Feel Love (book)

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I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World is a 2023 nonfiction book by American author Rachel Nuwer. [1] [2] [3] The book "examines groundbreaking new research that demonstrates that MDMA ... may allow those suffering from PTSD, addiction and anxiety to reconnect to a social world from which their ailments have separated them". [4] Kirkus Reviews called it "an illuminating, myth-free exploration of mental health from a unique perspective". [5] Publishers Weekly said it was "a nuanced, well-researched" book that "will enrich the cultural, legal, and medical conversation around drugs." [6]

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References

  1. "Rachel Nuwer's "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World"". Los Angeles Review of Books (book review). 2023-06-30. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  2. Demopoulos, Alaina (2023-06-27). "CIA experiments, Mormon ravers and reformed racists: the untold history of MDMA". The Guardian (book review). ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  3. Frederick, Robert; Dolgin, Elie; Blustein, Dan; Guerrero, Francisco J.; Aziz-Zadeh, Lisa; Sutherland, Stephani; Fieseler, Clare; Alex, Bridget; Case, Elizabeth (2023-06-02). "Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems, Giorgio Parisi, Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World, Rachel Nuwer, Bloomsbury, 2023, 384 pp. Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses, David Scheel, Norton, 2023, 320 pp. The Hidden History of Code-Breaking: The Secret World of Cyphers, Uncrackable Codes, and Elusive Encryptions, Sinclair McKay, Pegasus, 2023, 400 pp. Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Basic Books, 2023, 272 pp. The Madwomen of Paris: A Novel, Jennifer Cody Epstein, Ballantine Books, 2023, 336 pp. Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe, Aomawa Shields, Viking, 2023, 352 pp. The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods, Greg King, PublicAffairs, 2023, 480 pp. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth, Elizabeth Rush, Milkweed Editions, 2023, 424 pp". Science. 380 (6648): 888–893. doi:10.1126/science.adi7361. ISSN   0036-8075.
  4. Perelmuter, Federico (August 10, 2023). "Psychotropics help us map our minds. They might also bring us together". The Washington Post (book review).
  5. "I FEEL LOVE", Kirkus Reviews (book review), April 15, 2023
  6. "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World by Rachel Nuwer", Publishers Weekly (book review), June 1, 2023, retrieved 2023-12-01

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