“Trust” In Therapeutic Relationship Key to Moderating Psychedelic Risks
-Psychiatry Advisor reports on psychiatrist James Rucker's campaign for more research into the therapeutic potentials of psychedelic drugs, and on critics who point to the risks.
“The Manual of Psychedelic Support”
-Zevic Mishor writes about the development and release of a free guide to supporting people through extreme states induced by the use of psychedelic drugs.
“Warning Over Ketamine Use for Depression”
The Daily Telegraph reports on a warning published in the Medical Journal of Australia that urges doctors not to “jump the gun in prescribing patients the drug ketamine to treat depression.”
Psychedelic Use Associated with Reductions in Suicidal Tendencies
People who have taken a psychedelic drug at least once have less suicidal thinking than the general population.
Sunday Meditation: Are Non-ordinary States “Freeing” the Brain to Truly See?
On his blog Metaphysical Speculations, Bernardo Kastrup challenges conventional psychiatric assumptions that the brain produces and controls consciousness. Kastrup cites two recent studies published...
“Healing with MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy” and Other Psychedelic Stories
The Multi-Disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies' Winter 2014 Bulletin is freely available. Among other articles, the issue includes a personal story of a patient,...
“The Truth about Psychedelics and Mental Illness”
-New York Magazine discusses two recent studies that looked at the long-term relationships between use of psychedelics and the development of mental illnesses.
“I Did Psychedelic First Aid at a Festival in Costa Rica”
-Eamon Armstrong describes the Zendo Project, and his own experience providing support for people taking psychedelic drugs.
“Club Drug Ketamine Gains Traction As A Treatment For Depression”
NPR reports on how ketamine is being used off-label to treat depression.
Sunday History Channel: Seventy-five Years of Psychedelic Psychiatry
Mo Costandi provides a brief history in The Guardian of research activities using psychedelic substances such as LSD for psychiatric and psychotherapeutic purposes. Costandi...
Top Psychiatrist Fired In “Political” Row Over PTSD-Marijuana Study
A psychiatrist at the University of Arizona was fired after state Republican Senators criticized her work to university officials, according to the New York...
“Scientists Push to Renew Psychedelic Drug Research for Psychiatry”
-CBC Radio interviews UK neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt, Mark Haden of MAPS, and historian Erika Dyck about the past and present politics and science of psychedelic research.
Can Psychedelics Help End Addictions with One Dose?
Q13 Fox News discusses recent research giving psychedelics to people struggling with alcohol or cigarettes. David Nutt, an Imperial College London neuro-psychopharmacologist "thinks psilocybin...
“Can psychedelic trips cure PTSD and other maladies?”
The Washington Post explores some of the history of research into the therapeutic potentials of even just one session with a psychedelic drug, and...
Researchers Describe “Mind-blowing” Findings With Psychedelics
-Michael Pollan visits the resurgence of interest in the psychotherapeutic properties of psychedelic drugs in an essay in The New Yorker.
