{"id":5023,"date":"2025-12-01T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelics\/?page_id=5023"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:59:01","slug":"hannah-farrimond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/hannah-farrimond\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Farrimond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contributor &#8211; Speaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"364\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/12\/0u7st2mc_400x400-2-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5027\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/12\/0u7st2mc_400x400-2-edited.jpg 364w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/12\/0u7st2mc_400x400-2-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/12\/0u7st2mc_400x400-2-edited-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Hannah Farrimond is an Associate Professor in Medical Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK. She analyses the socio-cultural shifts in meanings concerning drugs and pharmaceuticals (e.g. alcohol, smoking\/vaping, cannabis, psychedelics, sleeping medications). She focuses particularly on stigma change over time, so that we can better understand stigma, then challenge it through public health policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Colloquium Presentation: 5 December 2025, 3:30-5pm (Room G17, Mood Disorder Centre, Sir Henry Wellcome Building)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is psychedelic stigma and why should we care about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In psychedelic communities of practice, psychedelic use is usually socially valued. However, for psychedelic use and therapy to go mainstream, stigma (as a form of social devaluation) and lack of acceptability remain a barrier to widespread uptake. Beliefs such as psychedelic therapies are \u2018not for people like me\u2019 or fears about disclosure deter use. In this talk I will outline a novel theory of social mutation, or stigma change over time, which has three dimensions; a) stigma lineage or history b) stigma variability in different contexts and c) stigma strength. I will examine the dynamism of psychedelic stigma, identifying established and novel connections that are occurring both locally and globally, within and beyond traditional group boundaries. I will argue that although psychedelic stigma is being revalued in the psychedelic renaissance, other forces continue to maintain stigma; both stigmatising and counter-stigmatising narratives can exist simultaneously. I invite discussion of the implications for practice and policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributor &#8211; Speaker Hannah Farrimond is an Associate Professor in Medical Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK. She analyses the socio-cultural shifts in meanings concerning drugs and pharmaceuticals (e.g. alcohol, smoking\/vaping, cannabis, psychedelics, sleeping medications). 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