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Psychedelic Assisted Therapies: Promises and Pitfalls
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After a four decade hiatus, researchers have returned to examining the therapeutic benefits of mind altering substances, including MDMA (ecstasy), psilocybin (mushrooms), and ketamine, which have demonstrated powerful therapeutic effects for PTSD, depression and addictions. In this workshop will present both the currently available scientific data, and our clinical experiences with MDMA and ketamine. Psychedelics can profoundly reorganize people’s experience of themselves, and lead to increased self-compassion, capacity for intimacy and emotion regulation and theraby promote a deepening and acceleration of psychotherapeutic processes. During therapy, people often are able to access and find peace with disavowed, “exiled” parts of themselves. Psychedelic medicines, when dosed correctly in the appropriate context, can act as powerful catalytic tools for healing, repair and new growth potentials moving healing paradigms towards wellness, resilience and self-actualization.
Gita Vaid, MD
Gita Vaid, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and co-founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence, a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to psychedelic psychotherapy innovation and clinical practice. A lead instructor at The Ketamine Training Center and a member of the Mount Sinai Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research and Trauma Center, she is a Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies-trained psychedelic psychotherapist practicing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in New York City. Vaid completed her residency training at NYU Medical Center and psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. She trained as a fellow in clinical psychopharmacology and neurophysiology at New York Medical College and completed a research fellowship at NYU Medical Center.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Gita Vaid maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the Ketamine Training Center Faculty and Mind Medicine Australia. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from 小蝌蚪视频. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Gita Vaid is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Psychiatric Association.
James W. Hopper, PhD
Dr. Jim Hopper is an independent consultant and Teaching associate in psychology at Harvard Medical School, and consultant to the Outpatient Addictions Service of the Cambridge Health Alliance. For over 25 years, Dr. Hopper’s research and consulting work has focused on the psychological and biological effects of child abuse, sexual assault, and other traumatic experiences. As a clinician, Dr. Hopper works with traumatized adults. He was a therapist for the FDA-approved phase 3 trial of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD, and since 2020 has provided ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in private practice. Dr. Hopper consults and teaches nationally and internationally to clinicians as well as investigators, prosecutors, judges, and other professionals.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: James Hopper maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance. He receives royalties as a published author. James Hopper receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from 小蝌蚪视频. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: James Hopper serves on the advisory board for Callisto. He is a member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the APA Division 56. James Hopper is an Ad hoc reviewer for several peer review journals, for a complete list contact 小蝌蚪视频.
Elizabeth Call, PsyD
Elizabeth Call, PsyD, offers psychotherapy services to those dealing with life transitions, loss, anxiety, dysthymia, and post-traumatic stress. A psychologist for over 20 years, she utilizes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, in her practice as well as Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. Throughout her extensive career, Elizabeth Call, PsyD, has served in multiple capacities in mental health facilities in Massachusetts and Arizona. She is also a former instructor in Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth Call maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with EMDR Institute and Burma Border Projects. She receives a speaking honorarium from 小蝌蚪视频. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Call is a member of the EMDR International Association and the Massachusetts Psychological Association.
Licia Sky, BFA
Licia Sky is a somatic educator, artist, singer-songwriter, and bodyworker who works with traumatized individuals and trains mental health professionals to use mindful meditation in movement, theater exercises, writing, and voice as tools for attunement, healing, and connection. She is a regular instructor in trauma healing workshops at Cape Cod Institute, Kripalu, and Esalen. For the past decade, she has been teaching expanded awareness in workshops to clinicians and laypeople around the world. Licia is the co-founder of the Trauma Research Foundation.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Licia Sky receives compensation as an Intuitive Energy Bodyworker and a peer counselor. She is the co-founder and CEO of Trauma Research Foundation. Licia Sky receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and 小蝌蚪视频. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Licia Sky has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, Trauma Research Foundation
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.
Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR.
He is founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts and President of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific, and educational projects.
His 2014 #1 New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring – specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, somatically based therapies, EMDR, psychodrama, play, yoga, and other therapies.
Dr. van der Kolk is the past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at conferences, universities, and hospitals around the world.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is a professor at Boston University School of Medicine, the Director of the Trauma Center, and the National Complex Trauma Network. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. van der Kolk receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from 小蝌蚪视频. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Rick Doblin, PhD
Rick Doblin, PhD, is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise healthy people, and eventually to become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He founded MAPS in 1986 and currently resides in Boston with his wife and dog.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Richard Doblin has an employment relationship with Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Inc. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from 小蝌蚪视频. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Richard Doblin serve on the Board of Lykos Therapeutics.