How to Change Your Mind (Season 1)

How to Change Your Mind (2022) is a documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. Journalist Michael Pollan hosts and narrates, adapting his own bestselling book, with Lucy Walker and Alison Ellwood directing.

Four episodes, four substances: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and mescaline. Pollan skips the trip clichés and digs into the science instead — how these compounds went from 1950s labs to outright prohibition, and why researchers are now testing them against depression, PTSD and the fear of dying. Along the way you meet figures like Rick Doblin and the late chemist Alexander Shulgin, who synthesized dozens of psychoactive molecules.

It's measured and curious rather than preachy: history, chemistry, patient testimony, and a frank look at the risks. A good fit for anyone drawn to neuroscience and the cultural history of the forbidden. Stream How to Change Your Mind (2022) online on iFILM.