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?
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:
Lemon Tree, based at the Amsterdam UMC, addresses the broad issue of mental health. The global mental health crisis is among the greatest challenges humans currently face and has medical, psychological, ethical, social and economic dimensions. We believe this crisis can only be understood and addressed from multiple perspectives and therefore requires an interdisciplinary approach, which our center aims to provide.
This will be done by building mutual cooperation, initiating critical questioning, and undertaking fundamental research that we will promote widely in the public domain.
This is an invitation-only event.