Michael Lynksey
Michael T. Lynskey is a Professor of Addictions in the National Addictions Centre with a focus on adolescence and young adulthood.
Michael has published extensively in the field of longitudinal studies and developmental psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on issues relating to cannabis use and cannabis use disorders, including the epidemiology and etiology of cannabis use and dependence; the assessment of cannabis use disorders, the comorbidity between cannabis use and mental health, and the genetics of cannabis dependence.

Michael T. Lynskey is a Professor of Addictions in the National Addictions Centre with a focus on adolescence and young adulthood.
Michael has published extensively in the field of longitudinal studies and developmental psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on issues relating to cannabis use and cannabis use disorders, including the epidemiology and etiology of cannabis use and dependence; the assessment of cannabis use disorders, the comorbidity between cannabis use and mental health, and the genetics of cannabis dependence.
Michael Lynksey In..
You May Also Like…

Could sex robots be good for us?
In defense of sex machines

The Secret History of Cool
Joel Dinerstein | Coolness as racial resistance

Love Story
Can love only be known in short doses?

Paradise Lost?
Is civilisation leaving us discontented?

The Secret Life of Desire
Is desire a consequence of scarcity and denial?

Is Big Data A Big Mistake?
The stories left behind Big Data

The Weird and the Wonderful
Why does interest in spirituality continue to grow?

Love Me Tinder
What does love look like in the digital age?

Sex and Love in the Digital Age
What impact is digital technology having on our relationships?

Sex Robots and Love Machines
Are sex robots a threat to human relationships?

The Chemistry of Desire
Is love an evolutionary trick?

Venus In Furs
Sadomasochism and the Limits of Sexuality

The Future of Sex Robots and Relationships
Kate Devlin | Could robots fix our erotic lives?

The Case Against Marriage
Bella DePaulo | The single life can be fulfilling

Sex Machines
The place of sex in our lives

Love, Life and Being Free
Do we need lifelong love to be happy?

Myself and Others
Are we more alive when we are alone?

A Fairytale Romance
Do we need relationships to thrive?

Culture Shock
Have we run out of radical ideas?

Desire, Dreams and Happiness
Can we ever arrive?

The Dark and the Digital
Cyberbullying, Trolling & Free Speech

Is Facebook Evil?
Digital oligopolies need to be broken up

What's Love Got To Do With It?
Simon May | We are infatuated with romance

In Search of Safety
Is the world as dangerous as it seems?

The New Romantics

Not Only Rock 'n' Roll
Looking back at the 60s cultural revolution

Glory Versus Passion
Is there more to life than success?

21st Century Cults
How do they come about?

Is Love Real?
Rethinking romance

Vanity Fair
Is narcissism a virtue that we need more of?

The End of Romance?
Time to chuck out this modern invention

Living Differently
Embracing new romantic norms

Fantasy Living
Are we happy with reality?

The Death Drive
The car crash as a 20th century phenomenon

Thinking and Being
Philosophy in Life and Experience

Noble Ancestors and Modern Selves
Is civilisation a myth?

Don Cupitt on Progress

Socrates vs. Jesus
Who would have the X-Factor today?

The Dark Side of Success
Why it doesn’t bring you happiness

Childhood's End

Dreamland
How to live your life

This Extraordinary World

Live Fast, Die Young
Should we take more risks?

Tiger Mothers and Cultural Success
Is work bad for the soul?

Screw the Fairytale
21st century love: say bye to weddings and family?

Family Futures
The rise of the post-nuclear family

The End of the University
Can the digital revolution offer the solution to the problems of our educational system?

The Never-Ending Journey
The myth of the nomad

Living Dangerously

Love Incorporated
Can we measure our emotions?

Paradise City
Can we build better metropoles?

To the Ends of the Universe
Do we still need explorers?

Cool Values
Does being cool teach us how to live?

Dangerous Dynasties and Blood Ties
The merits of meritocracy

The Post-Nuclear Family Future

Mummy's Little Secret
Should we lie to children?

Michael Eavis and the Paradise Hunters

States of Play
Should we get back to being playful?

Luddites and Fools
Creativity and technology in a digital age

Plastic Fantasies and Disposable Gods

Seriously Playful
Creativity, being, and play

Wild Dreams
Back to nature

The Never-ending Journey

Work and play
Are we searching for joy in the wrong places?

Victims and Warriors
Is victimhood culture dangerous?

Thinking Straight
Alcohol vs Drugs: which is more dangerous?

Why Love is the most Dangerous thing in the World
The emotion worth dying, and killing, for

The end of the whitewash
Colourblind casting and historical accuracy

In search of the self
The benefits of psychogeography

The return of the Colosseum
The morality of salacious entertainment

The anxiety of choice
Freedom and popular culture

The happiness trap
How to outgrow this self-centred ideology

How to right wrongs
Moving forward without forgetting our past

Promiscuity and power
A path to empowerment?

The limits of sexuality
Should we eradicate sexuality from our public live

In Conversation with Armando Iannucci
An exclusive interview with the legendary satirist

How laughter can change the world
The powerful influence of humour

How to think about sex
Applying philosophy to our sex lives

How to view suffering
Dissecting what it means to build well-being

Sexuality, power and pornography
Are we liberating female desires?

The search for wellbeing
Can we talk ourselves better?

How to be an animal
Animal sentience and ethical decision-making

The new roaring 20s
Will this decade give in to hedonism?

How to excite people with your ideas
The secrets of effective communication

How to revolutionise the academy
Democratising the university

The time of our lives
Do we worry too much about time?

Playing with fire
Is life without risk ever possible?

Desire, relationships and sex
Exploring the importance of sex, and whether we should be having more or less of it

How to use data to start a revolution
The power of number visualisation.

Technology: saviour or threat?
Will our progress be the end of us?

Technological parenting
The new age of parenthood

Tolerance and outrage
Have we become an increasingly intolerant society?

Form and ritual, power and prejudice
Is it time to abandon tradition?

The power of the present
Does mindfulness improve our lives?

Sex Against The System
Lessons from the sex industry

The trouble with sex
Is technology spelling the end of true intimacy?

Truth and prejudice
Does the modern university undermine free thought?

Silenced for following the science
An interview with David Nutt

The status of things
Should we free ourselves of objects and clutter?

The good, the great and the ghosts of the past
Nostalgia vs. the new

Seeing happy with Mandy Seligman
Honing in on that which makes us happy

The new 10 commandments
Do we really need codes for living?

World history and the population crisis
Is population decline a bad thing?

Love and other drugs
Are psychedelics the love potion of the future?

Fiction, social construction and gender
Freedom, truth and trans rights

The mystery of prehistory
What makes us who we are?

The happiness delusion
In search of the aim of life

Being ourselves and being with others
Has independence undermined community?

Forbidden Fruit
Sex and taboo in the modern age

How to find and make sense of happiness
Reimagining our understanding of wellbeing

Demystifying psychedelics
The science behind the trip

The fantasy of fame
Is our focus on fame destroying culture?

Technology is not neutral
Technology cannot exist without ethics

The future of psychedelic research and therapy
The fight for the right to research