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Michael Lifshitz is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He did his PhD in Neuroscience at McGill and then a postdoctoral fellowship in Anthropology at Stanford. His work combines phenomenology, neuroscience and ethnography to shed light on the plasticity of consciousness. He studies practices that aim to transform subjective experience—from meditation and hypnosis to placebos, prayer, and psychedelics. He is particularly interested in how these practices can modulate feelings of agency, so that thoughts, actions and sensations can come to feel like they are emerging from a source beyond the self.
I study practices that aim to transform subjective experience—from meditation and hypnosis to placebos, prayer, and psychedelics. I am particularly interested in how these practices can modulate feelings of agency and ownership, so that inner thoughts and sensations can come to feel as if they are emerging from a source beyond the self. My work combines phenomenology, neuroscience and ethnography to shed light on the plasticity of consciousness.
Brahinsky, J.B, Lifshitz, M., & Luhrmann, T. M. (2022). In The Oxford Handbook of Psychedelic, Spiritual, Religious, and Mystical Experiences, M. van Elk & D. Yaden (Eds.), Oxford University Press.
Luhrmann, T. M. Weisman, K., Aulino, F., Brahinsky, J. D., Dulin, J. C., Dzokoto, V. A., Legare, C. H., Lifshitz, M., Ng, E., Ross-Zehnder, N., & Smith, R. E. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(5), e2016649118.
Lifshitz, M., Brahinsky, J., & Luhrmann, T. M. (2020). International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis , 68(2), 183-199.
Lifshitz, M., van Elk, M., & Luhrmann, T. M. (2019). Consciousness and Cognition, 73, 102760.
Lifshitz, M., Sacchet, M., Huntenburg, J. M., Thiery, T., Fan, Y., Gärtner, M., Grimm, S., … Margulies, D. S., & Barnhofer, T. (2019). Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 88(6), 375-377.
