First-person experience in psychedelic psychotherapy
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04-06-2024 2:00 pm
Psychedelic psychotherapy has shown significant promise in the treatment of a range of mental disorders including major depression, substance addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder, trauma and death anxiety in individuals with a terminal illness. Our aim in this workshop is to explore how first-person subjective experiences such as ego diminution, connectedness to nature, feelings of communitas, awe and wonder, could contribute to positive therapeutic treatment outcomes in psychiatric patients. How do psychedelics contribute to psychotherapy? Could psychedelic psychotherapy work in the absence of intense, transformative first-person experiences?
In this closed event, our invited speakers will make short presentations relating to the core questions of the workshop. We will focus the workshop on discussions between speakers and invited participants, many of whom are practitioners in psychedelic assisted therapy.
Invited speakers:
- Bill Richards (Clinical Psychologist, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Centre)
- Rosalind Watts (Clinical Psychologist, Imperial College, London)
- Michiel van Elk (Cognitive Neuroscientist, Leiden University)
- Taita Juan Agreda (Indigenous practitioner)
- Aidan Lyon (Philosopher, Leiden University)
- Chris Timmermans (Cognitive Neuroscientist, Imperial College, London)
Date & Time
04-06-2024 2:00 pm
Location
Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, Oude Turfmarkt 147 Amsterdam
Lemon Tree