The encounter of clinical psychology with psychedelic compounds, plants, and mushrooms opens new possibilities for psychotherapy. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's schizoanalysis, the concept of the Body without Organs—derived from Antonin Artaud's peyote experience—is central. This philosophical question involves an ethical, aesthetic, and political task, dissociating psychology from neuroscience tied to the organic body. By revisiting the anatomophysiological paradigm through Foucault's analyses of disciplinary power and biopower, rigid definitions of the body are questioned, broadening experience to include other narratives. Psychedelic experience involves an intensive body as force, with mushrooms acting as intermediaries that deconstruct fixed forms of subject and body, while the decentralized mycelium unfolds new possibilities. Implications for therapies require caution and awareness of risks.
The ongoing 'psychedelic renaissance' and its medicalization of psychedelics may reinforce historical psychiatric practices as a form of technobiopower, intertwining with neoliberal rationality, reductionist psychiatry, and fascism. Through a genealogical and critical review, the authors argue that this movement overlooks valuable contributions from French and Brazilian philosophers and psychoanalysts. Incorporating analytics of desire could deepen understanding of links between psychology, capitalism, and psychedelics. The paper explores micropolitics around diagnostics and contemporary malaise, proposing ways to escape the current grammar of suffering by drawing on insights from global minority movements. It asserts that psychedelics combined with psychotherapy can be tools for resisting neoliberalism.