So Many Things Yet Unstudied: What We Don't Know About Psychotherapy In Psychedelic Practice

The psychotherapy component of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP or PAT) often seems to exist primarily for safety purposes. However, psychotherapy offers substantial benefits to mental health, both independently and in conjunction with medications. How can psychotherapy be most effectively integrated with psychedelics—especially psilocybin—to maximize patient benefit? What specific questions should we be exploring, to better address patients' needs? This talk will focus on several of the key questions in this area that research has yet to address.

Join Dara Friedman-Wheeler, PhD and Kristy Arthur, LCPC from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research in this exploration of how psychotherapy can be further studied and refined to lead to larger benefits in psychedelic medicine.

Dara Friedman-Wheeler, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a research psychologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. She is co-author of the book, Being the Change: A…