Sublime

Specially trained psychiatrists and psychologists are now administering hallucinogens and other potent psychotropic agents (psilocybin, ketamine, ecstasy) as mental health remedies. Administering limited doses (one to three) of psychedelics interspersed with multiple sessions of talk therapy over many weeks has become the modern equivalent of shama

The use of these drugs is not helpful if the insights gained from them are not integrated into the person’s normal state of consciousness.

Dr. Kurt Beringer, Lewin’s student and an acquaintance of Hermann Hesse’s and Carl Jung’s, became the father of psychedelic psychiatry.

Quand le professeur de psychologie, David Rosenhan, partit en congé sabbatique, j’ai accepté de reprendre son cours de premier cycle sur la psychopathologie, mais ce fut le dernier de ce genre que j’ai donné. J’ai peu à peu délaissé la science médicale, mon affiliation d’origine, pour les sciences humaines. Ce fut une période de passion, mais aussi

Still more fortuitous, this psychologist, whose name was Bill Richards, probably has more experience guiding psychedelic journeys in the 1960s and 1970s than anyone alive, with the possible exception of Stan Grof (with whom he had once worked). In fact, Bill Richards administered the very last legal dose of psilocybin to an American, at the Marylan

It is known that the likelihood of long-term therapeutic gains increases with the likelihood of the subject having a mystical experience, prima facie evidence favoring a critical role for subjectivity. It is precisely the high emotional impact of the memories of the vivid and highly unusual psychedelic experience that serves as the primary source o

Cela faisait trois ans que j’étais en psychiatrie, et il me restait encore à connaître un clinicien qu’intéresseraient les visions des philosophes et des romanciers.