A conversation series with leaders in the psychedelic community. Designed in service of therapists, healers, retreat leaders, and passionate enthusiasts.
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The psychedelic renaissance is here! Join Dr. Steve Thayer, Dr. Reid Robison, and special guests as they explore the frontiers of psychedelic medicine and what it takes to cultivate a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Our hosts draw from their extensive knowledge and experience with psychedelic therapy research and treatment to discuss the science, practice, and art of psychedelic healing. If you are a helping professional, therapist, clinician, guide, healer, psychedelic enthusiast, or simply ...
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Veterans tell their amazing stories of healing and transformation through psychedelic-assisted therapy. They have experienced journeys through combat, the chaos of emergencies, multiple psychiatric medications, addiction, estrangement by loved ones, and career loss. But each one found their way back by facing their biggest fears and darkest shadows—and unearthing aspects of themselves they didn't know existed. Now they want to help other veterans and first responders find the same path to he ...
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What all effective therapies have in common (part 2)
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44:07Send us a text We’re back with part 2 of our 2-part series on what all effective psychotherapies have in common. Last week we introduced you to the common factors research on psychotherapy outcomes, using the work of Dr. Jeffery Smith, MD to help us structure the conversation. We discussed how entrenched maladaptive patterns, fueled by affective av…
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Robin Arnott & Sandeep Prakash: Training for Psychedelic Surrender
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56:19Can we practice the art of surrender before the first dose? Today on the show Robin Arnott and Dr. Sandeep Prakash explain how SoundSelf evolved from a VR curiosity into a clinically oriented tool that uses sound and light feedback to induce the unitary states therapists aim for in medicine sessions. We unpack the science of voice-activated biofeed…
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What all effective therapies have in common (part 1)
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37:25Send us a text Have you ever looked for a new therapist and been overwhelmed by all the different kinds of therapy out there? Acronyms like CBT, ACT, EMDR, REBT, IFS, or confusing names like somatic experiencing or psychoanalysis–it can leave you wondering which one is best for the problems you’re experiencing. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic…
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DMT for depression, LSD for ADHD, rats on ayahuasca, and insight driving treatment outcomes
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58:16Send us a text What happens when you give scared rats ayahuasca? Can inhaled DMT treat depression? Does microdosing LSD help with ADHD? How do the insights occasioned by psychedelic experience affect therapeutic outcomes? Can cannabis use in adolescence increase the risk of developing schizophrenia? Does taking Paxil before LSD affect the psychedel…
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Making peace with pain: Mindfulness, psychedelics, and the neuroplastic path to relief
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36:19Send us a text Pain is an unavoidable feature of life. Some would argue that the desire to avoid or stop pain is a foundational driver of most human behaviors. But what about when pain is chronic? How much does our attitude toward our pain affect our experience of pain? Can psychedelic treatments offer new ways to treat chronic pain conditions? Wha…
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Meditation and mindfulness in psychedelic therapy and everyday life
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44:14Send us a text Meditation as a practice, a life path, or a mindset is central to many ancient wisdom traditions and modern psychotherapies. It’s also a useful tool for preparing for, navigating, and integrating psychedelic experiences. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we explore the definitions, components, and appli…
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Counterintuitive truths and paradoxes about healing
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44:22Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we’re talking about a few counterintuitive ideas or paradoxes that one might encounter on their personal growth or healing journey. Due to their paradoxical nature, these ideas can be difficult to accept. Ideas like, “only when I accept myself as I am do I then have the…
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Boundaries: How to free up your time and energy for what matters most (Rebroadcast)
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47:09Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, the podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss boundaries. They explore the importance and challenges of setting healthy boundaries, different categories of boundary-setting, clarifying personal values, protecting your time and energy, what leads to unhealthy bounda…
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Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we’re talking about unfinished business. Now I don’t mean “unfinished business” in the hyper-aggressive revenge film kind of way. No, we’re talking about unresolved emotions, memories, or conflicts from the past that intrude on the present causing us to wonder why we ke…
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Send us a text Do you ever feel like something is wrong with you? Like if you were just able to fix the way you think, feel, or behave then you would finally enjoy peace, connection, and freedom? Perhaps you’ve even gone to therapy with this intention and worked hard to heal traumas, challenge negative thinking, and establish healthier habits. But …
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Interpreting dreams, lucid dreaming, and psychedelics
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57:45Send us a text Sigmund Freud said that dreams are the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we explore this royal road as we discuss the nature of dreams, the neurophysiology of the dreaming brain, the therapeutic utility of dream interpretation, nightma…
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Understanding insecurities and how to overcome them
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40:49Send us a text Have you ever been accused of being insecure? It’s something, if we’re being honest with ourselves, nearly all of us struggle with. I’m not smart enough, attractive enough, rich enough, successful enough. It seems like there are an infinite number of rulers that prove how poorly we measure up. But where do these insecurities come fro…
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What is consciousness and what can psychedelics teach us about the nature of conscious awareness?
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49:24Send us a text What is consciousness? Is it unique to humans? Is a bat, a tree, or an AI agent conscious? What does it mean for something to be subconscious or unconscious? What does altering consciousness with psychedelic compounds teach us about its nature? How does understanding consciousness help us improve our mental health? In today’s episode…
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How stories, self-narratives, and biases shape our mental health
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51:10Send us a text The human mind is a meaning-making machine. It does its best to make sense out of the constant barrage of information flooding it moment to moment. One of the ways your mind does this is by creating and using filters. These filters go by many names: cognitive bias, heuristics, core beliefs, values, narratives, prejudice, etc. In toda…
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Joshua White: Who You Gonna Call? Fireside
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1:14:43Imagine you’re in the middle of a psychedelic journey—things are getting intense, and you just need someone to talk to. That’s whereFireside Project comes in. As the world’s first psychedelic peer support line, Fireside is redefining how we care for each other in altered states, offering a space where anyone can find guidance, validation, and a ste…
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Adult development | Waking up vs growing up, enlightenment, and the midlife crisis (Rebroadcast)
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1:10:01Send us a text In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss adult development. That’s right, folks. Developmental stages aren’t just for the kids. Reid and Steve explore different theories on adult development, particularly Ken Wilber’s integral theory and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. T…
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Sleep apnea awareness, 5-MeO-DMT for heavy drinking, LSD for anxiety, and psychedelics for personality disorders
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1:08:40Send us a text Do you have one of those fancy wearable devices that tracks your sleep? How reliable are those things? Could they help detect a serious sleep disorder like sleep apnea? How detrimental is sleep apnea on physical and mental health? What are the latest treatment innovations for sleep apnea? Can psychedelics help people with personality…
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Compounding Growth: How to Invest in Yourself for Lifelong Transformation
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1:00:48Send us a text If you take any beginner’s class in economics or finance you undoubtedly learn about how investments grow over time via compound interest. But what if we apply this concept of investment and compounding growth to personal development? In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss a variety of approaches …
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Tom Feegel: Ibogaine for Cognitive Enhancement
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1:06:42A month ago, I had the privilege of visiting Beond in Cancun, Mexico to experience an ibogaine treatment for cognitive enhancement. Today, I’m joined by Beond CEO Tom Feegel to discuss how this remarkable medicine can support a better brain. In this episode, we explore Tom’s personal journey with Ibogaine, its potential to revolutionize addiction t…
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On creativity, forgiveness, and being an artist without a medium with Haymitch St. Stephen
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1:07:47Send us a text When we describe artists we typically describe them in terms of their medium: a musician, a scuplter, a painter, a poet, etc. But what does it really mean to be an artist or, for that matter, to be creative? Can you be an artist without a medium? How do we think about or describe the creative act? What might life look like if we were…
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Ancient wisdom for modern problems
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1:01:37Send us a text How relevant are the teachings of ancient philosophers for modern problems? Marcus Arelius didn’t have social media. The Buddha never got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. At first glance the stressors of modern life seem so different from what humans had to deal with a few hundred or especially a few thousand years ago. In today’s …
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Make new year’s resolutions that matter
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51:09Send us a text Last episode we talked about taking time as a new year approaches to reflect on the previous year. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss how to make new year’s resolutions that really matter to you. We explore why we struggle to accomplish new year’s resolutions, the difference between goals and …
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Reflecting on the year: Learning, appreciating, and growing
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44:09Send us a text 2024 is coming to a close. Before we give too much thought to resolutions and intentions for the new year, it can be helpful to reflect on the past year. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss what can be gleaned from a yearly reflection practice, review some notable developments in the psychedeli…
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Grist for the mill: Ram Dass Legacy Retreat report with Jeremy Robison and John Patterson
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1:00:34Send us a text Reid has recently returned from the Ram Das Legacy Retreat in Maui run by the Love Serve Remember Foundation. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we sat down for a trip report with Reid’s brother, Jeremy Robison, and our friend, John Patterson, who also attended the retreat. We discuss the theme of the ret…
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Understanding legacy and ancestral burdens and gifts
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53:20Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we’re exploring legacy (or sometimes called ancestral) burdens and gifts. This is the idea that beliefs, interpersonal patterns, narratives, emotions, unresolved trauma, and/or pain from previous generations can be passed down to descendants, influencing their psychologi…
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Send us a text If an artificial intelligence (AI) therapist was available, would you use it? Could an AI program replace your therapist? What are the potential opportunities and risks of using AI for help with your mental health? What might the future hold as this technology advances? In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast …
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Gul Dolen MD, PhD on how psychedelics could be the master key that unlocks critical learning periods allowing real change to happen (Rebroadcast)
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1:18:28Send us a text In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Gül Dölen MD, PhD. Gül is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a pioneer and world leader of psychedelics research. She earned her MD, PhD at Brown University an…
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Psychotic disorders, psychedelics, and cannabis
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41:51Send us a text Does using cannabis put you at a greater risk of developing schizophrenia? Is it safe to use psychedelic-assisted therapy for psychotic disorders? Is there a difference between the psychotic experience and the psychedelic experience? In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we discuss these questions as we expl…
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Juan Pablo Capello: A Wakeup Call for Ketamine Telehealth Companies
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1:04:50Today, I’m joined by Juan Pablo Capello, co-founder and former CEO of New Life Health, a telehealth ketamine therapy service launched in 2021. Juan Pablo has raised concerns about low standards of care in telehealth ketamine, making this a timely conversation about the opportunities and challenges in this growing industry. In our discussion, Juan P…
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Research roundup: How psychedelics affect personality traits, empathy, depression, and more
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51:05Send us a text Do psychedelics make people more empathic? Does coming off antidepressants before psychedelic therapy affect outcomes? Can MDMA change your personality? Can a psychedelic medicine without the “trip” still help with depression? In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss recent studies that seek to answ…
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Send us a text We’ve spent a lot of time on this show talking about the potential mental health risks and benefits of experiences occasioned by psychedelic medicines. But how do scientists and clinicians know if and to what extent a psychedelic experience is helpful or harmful? Well, we measure it. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Fron…
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What you need to know about narcissism
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48:23Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss what narcissism is, the difference between narcissistic personality disorder and narcissistic traits, some theories on why narcissism develops, why we might want to have compassion for someone with narcissistic traits, therapies for narcissism, how to protect…
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Social anxiety disorder: Am I just really shy?
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46:11Send us a text You’ve probably been given the advice at some point in your life that you shouldn’t care about what other people think of you. For some of you this might feel pretty easy. For others it’s a challenge. And for some of you the threat of negative social judgment and embarrassment is absolutely terrifying. In today’s episode of the Psych…
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Natalie Lyla Ginsberg (MAPS): The FDA, MDMA, and the Future of Psychedelic Therapy
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1:03:54Today, we’re exploring a critical issue facing the field of psychedelic medicine: the recent FDA rejection of MAPS’ clinical trials to reschedule MDMA for therapeutic use. This setback affects many of us committed to healing and transforming society through psychedelics. To help us understand the impact and the path forward, I’m joined by Natalie L…
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I’m going through a really hard time. What can I do?
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56:13Send us a text Sometimes it seems like life is crumbling around you. Maybe something terrible has happened or the accumulation of stressors is just too much to bear. What do you do when life keeps giving you lemons and you’re just sick of making lemonade? In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss tools and strategi…
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Tricia Eastman & Joseph Barsuglia: Ibogaine is Miracle Grow for the Brain
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1:09:23Today we’re doing something a little different. I’m re-releasing an episode from my personal podcast, Life is a Festival, because it remains one of my favorite interviews ever. This conversation, originally recorded a few years ago, is with Tricia Eastman and Joseph Barsuglia, two pioneers in the world of psychedelic medicine. We dive deep into Ibo…
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What happens at an ayahuasca retreat with Sam Believ from LaWayra
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1:01:34Send us a text Have you ever wondered what happens at an ayahuasca retreat? How do you know if out-of-country retreat centers are safe? Why would anyone voluntarily drink a tea that makes them vomit? What benefits do people report experiencing after participating in an ayahuasca ceremony? What are the dangers of ayahuasca? In today’s episode of the…
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Send us a text Do you think anger is a negative emotion? Have you ever been told that you need to control your anger? What’s the difference between healthy and unhealthy expressions of anger? In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we’re exploring this often misunderstood emotion and the strategies for processing and express…
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Combining psychedelics, DMT for meditators, public opinion of psychedelic medicine, and more
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48:29Send us a text What do mental healthcare practitioners think of psychedelics? Does combining MDMA and psilocybin/LDS have therapeutic potential? Can DMT enhance the practice of experienced meditators? What can we learn from recurring dreams? Can your ADHD medication cause psychosis? In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we…
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What 73 high-dose LSD sessions taught Christopher Bache, PhD, about the nature of reality and the next phase of human evolution (Rebroadcast)
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1:32:28Send us a text In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Christopher Bache, PhD. Chris is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fello…
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Send us a text Have you ever had someone really listen to you? What does that feel like when somebody gives you their undivided, compassionate, and validating attention? In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we’re exploring the concept of deep listening. We discuss the difference between deep listening and simply hearing, …
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Binge eating disorder: diagnosis, treatment, HAES, and psychedelics
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50:40Send us a text Binge eating disorder is the newest addition to the eating disorder diagnostic category in the DSM. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we’re exploring this condition, including its etiology, how it’s diagnosed, prevalence rates, recent research, available treatments, the potential of psychedelic treatment…
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Send us a text Is meditation dangerous? It might seem like a silly question. Many people would put meditation on the short list of practices that are essential for good mental and spiritual health. Indeed, we’ve recommended meditation many times on this show as a powerful tool to use in psychedelic-assisted therapy. In today’s episode of the Psyche…
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Making peace with every part of you: IFS, parts work, and psychedelic therapy
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58:18Send us a text Have you ever felt conflicted about something–like there was a war going on in your head between parts of you with different agendas? Do you ever get frustrated with yourself for behaving in self-defeating ways only to find yourself repeating that same behavior over and over again? Well you, my friend, might have a mind comprised of …
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FDA rejects MAPS/Lykos MDMA therapy for PTSD
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43:15Send us a text On Aug 9th the FDA rejected the new drug application by Lykos (formerly MAPS PBC) for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. This is disappointing news for those of us who were excited about the promising study results and eager to add MDMA-assisted therapy to the menu of treatment options for those suffering with PTSD. We discuss what appe…
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Send us a text Do you ever feel like the world is going crazy around you? War, political polarization, cultural clashes, exploitation, all fed to your brain through a steady stream of addictive social media posts. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we’re going to discuss this modern predicament and how one might mainta…
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Jennifer Tippett: Understanding Private Practice vs Clinical Trials
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46:47After the shocking decision of an advisory committee recommendation that the FDA reject MDMA as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, I wanted to speak to someone who understands the difference between clinical trials and private practice. Dr. Jennifer Tippett is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of Psychotherapeutic Developme…
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How to prepare for, navigate, and integrate a psychedelic experience (Rebroadcast)
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1:29:06Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, the podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss how to prepare for, navigate, and integrate a psychedelic experience. *This episode originally aired 1/30/24 Learn more about our podcast at https://numinusnetwork.com/learn/podcast/ Learn more about psychedelic therapy…
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Can you change your personality? Temperament, personality, and personality disorders
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57:10Send us a text Can you change your personality? What even is a “personality” anyway? Is my boyfriend a narcissist? What’s borderline personality disorder? We human beings are complex creatures with a drive to understand ourselves. In that quest to understand ourselves, we’ve noticed some patterns. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Front…
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Psychedelic studies, interpreting results, and the future of psychedelic research
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1:09:26Send us a text There is a lot of exciting research going on right now in the world of psychedelic medicine. So much, in fact, that it can be difficult to keep track of it all. Where do you go for reliable information? How do you interpret results? How is it that studies with similar hypotheses can have contradictory findings? In today’s episode of …
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