The therapeutic use of psychedelic medicines in the treatment of emotional and psychosomatic disorders

This was a live webinar I gave with Adele LaFrance back in Sep 2020. It’s designed to help mental health clinicians better understand the potential of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. This kind of treatment has led to significant break-throughs for adults with difficult-to-treat conditions, like PTSD, depression, OCD, anxiety, additions, and has filled gaps that traditional treatments have been unable to fill. Adele and I review various paradigms of psychedelic-assisted therapy, along with medico-legal and safety considerations in the use of psychedelic compounds. We will also present theoretical frameworks for understanding the therapeutic potential of altered states of consciousness, and explore practices and techniques for the integration of insights gained during psychedelic experience into day to day life.