Dr. Aidan Seale-Feldman

Aidan Seale-Feldman is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Her work explores affliction and its treatments: psychiatric, therapeutic, spiritual, and anthropological. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, her current research project, “Ethical Substance: Psychedelic Medicine in Times of Social and Spiritual Crisis,” investigates the incorporation of mystical experience into the lives of secular Americans and their therapeutic practices. Prior to joining the faculty at Notre Dame, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Bioethics at the University of Virginia.

See the abstract for Aidan and Maha's presentation, “Psychedelic Churches and Secular Biomedical Forces.”