Texts
Feel free to contact me if you cannot get hold of an article.
1.Books
Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature Alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists, Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2020. [Website]
Neuropsychedelia. The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2012. [Introduction] [Chapter 1] [Reviews]
Die Zeit der Psychoanalyse. Lacan und das Problem der Sitzungsdauer, Suhrkamp: Frankfurt/M., 2005. [Abstract] [Introduction]
3. Peer-reviewed Articles
Nicolas Langlitz, Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, Rebekah Gainsley, and Kyle Greenway, "Context as Contraindication: Ethical Challenges of Psychedelics and Other Neuroplasticity-Enhancing Drugs" (submitted).
Nicolas Langlitz and Talia Dan-Cohen, "What Ever Happened to the Anthropology of Science." Annual Review of Anthropology 54 (2025). [Full text]
"Experiments in Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy in Switzerland and Australia." BioSocieties online first (2025). [Full text]
Nicolas Langlitz and Alex Gearin, "Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life." Neuroethics 17:14 (2024), 1-19. [Full text]
Nicolas Langlitz and Clemente de Althaus, “The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures.” History of the Human Sciences, 37:1 (2024), 3–27. [Full text]
"Psychedelic Innovations and the Crisis of Psychopharmacology." BioSocieties 19 (2024), 37-58. [Full text]
"The Making of a Mushroom People: Toward a Moral Anthropology of Psychedelics Beyond Hype and Anti-hype.” Anthropology Today 39:3 (2023), 10-12. [Full text]
"What Good Are Psychedelic Humanities?" Frontiers in Psychology 14 (2023). [Full text]
“If Only There Was a Department of Fieldwork in Philosophy.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11:2 (2021), 748-753. [Full text]
Nicolas Langlitz, Erika Dyck, Milan Scheidegger, Dimitris Repantis, "Moral Psychopharmacology Needs Moral Inquiry: The Case of Psychedelics." Frontiers in Psychiatry 12 (2021), pp. 1-6. [Full text]
"Devil's Advocate: Sketch of an Amoral Anthropology" and "Warning against and experimenting with morality." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10:3 (2020), pp. 989-1004 and 1030-1035.
“Psychedelic science as cosmic play, psychedelic humanities as perennial polemics? Or why we are still fighting over Max Weber’s Science as a Vocation.” Journal of Classical Sociology 19:3 (2019), 275-289. [Full text]
“Salvage and Self-loathing: Cultural Primatology and the Spiritual Malaise of the Anthropocene.” Anthropology Today 34:6 (2018), 16-20. [Full text]
“Primatology of Science: On the Birth of Actor-Network Theory from Baboon Field Observations.” Theory, Culture & Society (2017), 101-125. [Full text]
“Opaque Models: Using Drugs and Dreams to Explore the Neurobiological Basis of Mental Phenomena.” Progress in Brain Research (2017), 1-20. [Full text]
“Synthetic Primatology: What Humans and Chimpanzees Do in a Japanese Laboratory and the African Field.” British Journal for the History of Science Themes 2 (2017), 1-25. [Full text]
“Homo academicus und Papio anubis in der Reagan-Thatcher-Ära.” Nach Feierabend: Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte 12, Wissen, ca. 1980, (2016), 235-244. [Full text]
“Is There a Place for Psychedelics in Philosophy? Fieldwork in Neuro- and Perennial Philosophy.” Common Knowledge 22:3 (2016), 373-384. [Full text]
“Vatted Dreams: Neurophilosophy and the Politics of Phenomenal Internalism.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21:4 (2015), 739-757. [Full text]
“On a Not so Chance Encounter Between Neurophilosophy and Science Studies in a Sleep Laboratory.” History of the Human Sciences 28:4 (2015), 3-24. [Full text]
Author interview “We might have a brighter future if we stopped conceiving of ourselves as an epistemic counterculture.” History of the Human Sciences website, 1 March 2016. [Full text]
“The Persistence of the Subjective in Neuropsychopharmacology. Observations of Contemporary Hallucinogen Research.” History of the Human Sciences 23:1 (2010), 37-57. [Abstract] [Full text]
"Pharmacovigilance and Post-black Market Surveillance." Social Studies of Science 39:3 (2009), 395-420. [Abstract] [Full text]
"Ceci n'est pas une psychose. Toward a Historical Epistemology of Model Psychosis." BioSocieties 1:2 (2006), 158-180. [Abstract] [Full text]
Mazda Adli, Christopher Baethge, Andreas Heinz, Nicolas Langlitz, and Michael Bauer, “Is dose escalation of antidepressants a rational strategy after a medium-dose treatment has failed? A systematic review,” European Archive of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 255:6 (2005), 387-400. [Abstract]
Langlitz, Nicolas, Kerstin Schotte, and Tom Bschor, "Loperamid-Abusus bei Angststörung." Der Nervenarzt 72:7 (2001), 562-564. [Abstract]
2. Edited Volumes and Special Issues
Nicolas Langlitz, Minsu Yoo, Sujit Thomas, and Zoë Dubus (eds.), A Paradigm Shift in Psychiatry? Evaluating the Future of Psychedelic Medicine.. Special issue of BioSocieties (most articles published online first, but not the issue as such).
Erika Dyck, Tehseen Noorani, Nicolas Langlitz, Alex Dymock, Anne Katrin Schlag and Oliver Davis (eds.), Psychedelic Humanities, Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 2024. [Full text]