Here's an essay I wrote on 'voodoo death' that was shortlisted for the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition. giulioongaro.substack.com/p/conscious-... Congrats to winners @anilseth.bsky.social, Xin Huang, and Xiaoben Liu!

In this guest post I write about shamanism as a form of externalist psychiatry. Follows up on a recent trio of papers +commentaries I published in Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology. Feedback welcome!

The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...

Makes me think of Zhou Enlai.