Psychedelic Therapy With Licensed Therapists: Where Care Is Heading
Psychedelic therapy, in the view of Journey Clinical CEO Myriam Barthes, is safest and most useful when licensed therapists lead it with medical screening beforehand and integration afterward. She explains how ketamine therapy is being brought into private practices, what she expects next for psilocybin, and why she believes the real work happens before and after a session.
Psychedelic Therapy and Alcohol: A Chemist's Healing Story
Psychedelic therapy, in Chris Becker's experience, worked best as a slow process that began with ordinary talk therapy. A retired chemist with a PhD from UC Berkeley, he tells Jeremy Van Wert how drinking to numb childhood pain gave way, over about a year and a half, to feeling his emotions again and losing interest in alcohol.