A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin
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Description
A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin by Roslyn Dauber follows the revival of clinical psilocybin research after decades of prohibition, with particular attention to depression, trauma, and end-of-life distress. Instead of treating psychedelics as a counterculture relic, it stays close to researchers, patients, and the medical setting in which these sessions unfold. The documentary gives unusual weight to cancer patients facing mortality, so its focus lands less on recreational curiosity than on suffering, meaning, and the therapeutic possibilities being tested around psilocybin.
Director / Filmmaker
Roslyn Dauber
About the Director / Filmmaker
Roslyn Dauber, director and producer, works across independent documentary, journalism, science, and cultural documentation. Trained in science, technology, and public policy at George Washington University, she later taught broadcast journalism and new media at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her career spans associate producing the Oscar-winning Broken Rainbow, founding the Tibetan Bonpo Media Archive Project, and long-form nonfiction shaped by research, education, and public communication.
Roslyn Dauber, director and producer, works across independent documentary, journalism, science, and cultural documentation. Trained in science, technology, and public policy at George Washington University, she later taught broadcast journalism and new media at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her career spans associate producing the Oscar-winning Broken Rainbow, founding the Tibetan Bonpo Media Archive Project, and long-form nonfiction shaped by research, education, and public communication.
Topic
Mental Health, Alternative Medicine
Who It’s Best For
People weighing psychedelic therapy through the lens of evidence, ethics, and end-of-life distress are the clearest fit here. Clinicians and skeptics may value it when asking where psilocybin research is promising, limited, or being culturally oversold.
Production Company / Studio
Red Phoenix Productions
Approach
Clinical research supplies the organizing frame, with investigators and trial participants used to translate psilocybin studies into a therapeutic narrative. The argument is science-branded but openly affirmative, using testimony to reinforce promise more than to stage uncertainty.
Duration
54 Minutes
Year
2017
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