Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research II Researchers, Movies and Videos Featured Audio Archives Podcast 021 – “Psychedelic Psychotherapy and the Shadow” (Ann Shulgin)
Podcast 042 – “Using Psychedelics for Rational Work” (James Fadiman, Ph.D.)	Podcast 043 – “The Politics of Psychedelic Research” (John Gilmore)
Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca (wiki) The Hoasca Project Ayahuasca Healing in Peru On The Therapeutic Use Of Ayahuasca hopelessness in Santo Daime members.pdf Ayahuasca: Legalized Works in the Netherlands.pdf	English Bibliography of the Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions Ayahuasca: The Art and Science of Illumination (8/31/10) Pass the Tea Please: Hoasca and the UDV Church (11/12/07) Vision Quest: Shamanism vs. capitalism: the politics of ayahuasca Dennis McKenna: The (Ayahuasca) Hoasca Project - part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Effects of ayahuasca on psychometric measures of anxiety, panic-like and
Drugs, the Expansion of Consciousness - Claudio Naranjo (video) Psychological Aspects of the Yage Experience in an Experimental Setting by Claudio Naranjo An adventurous Chilean psychiatrist, Dr. Claudio Naranjo, has made a special study of the use of yagé in psychotherapy, and feels that it offers certain advantages over LSD.
LSD / Psilocybin
Psilocybin (wiki) Psilocybin (wiki) Hofmann's Potion Maria Sabina (Google) LSD Cured My Headache LSD in the clinic again (8/2/07) Lysergic acid diethylamide (wiki) LSD - Richard Alpert & Sidney Cohen The Acid Diaries by Christopher Gray Erowid Character Vaults: Sidney Cohen Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder’s LSD experiments LSD revival: Turn on, tune in, feel better (4/27/10: The Sunday Times)	LSD: cultural revolution and medical advances Psychedelic mushrooms ease symptoms of OCD Benefits of ‘magic mushroom’ therapy long lasting Non-Therapeutic Uses of LSD by Stanislav Grof, M.D. The Hallucinogenic Way of Dying (from Psychedelics.com) Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug (7/1/08) The Theory of Hallucinogens as a Treatment for Cluster Headaches Podcast 013 – “Cancer Anxiety Study Tests Psilocybin” (Dr. Charles Grob) Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again (4/11/10: The New York Times) R&D Medicines > LSD/Psilocybin for Anxiety Related to Life-threatening Illness Podcast 015 – “Treating Childhood Schizophrenia With LSD and Psilocybin” - related - Gary Fisher, psychedelic research pioneer
Psychedelic drugs aid anxiety treatments in cancer patients (4/23/2010: USA Today) Pilot Study of Psilocybin Treatment for Anxiety in Patients With Advanced-Stage Cancer The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs: Chapter 47. LSD and psychotherapy Psilocybin's effects on cognition: Recent research and its implications for enhancing creativity The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs: Chapter 48. Hazards of LSD psychotherapy Moderate Doses of Psilocybin Reduce Anxiety and Depression in Advanced-Stage Cancer Patients (JAMA) Psilocybin Mushrooms are Effective in the Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.ppt by Annie Gillis Hallucinogen Can Safely Ease Anxiety in Advanced-Stage Cancer Patients, Study Suggests (9/7/10: Science Daily) Drug's Mystical Properties Confirmed: 36 Area Adults Took Psilocybin in Study; Many Called Experience Spiritual (7/11/06: The Washington Post) Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance.pdf (5/27/06) Long Trip: Magic Mushrooms' Transcendent Effect Lingers: Survey shows that profound mental changes induced by psilocybin have lasted for more than a year (7/1/08) 'Magic mushrooms' ingredient beneficial to cancer patients, report says: Researchers find psilocybin improved the anxiety and depression of terminal cancer patients for up to six months. The study is considered a first step in restoring the hallucinogen's respectability. (9/7/10: Los Angeles Times) Stairway to Heaven: Psychedelics Soothe Dying: NYU Researchers Study Use of Psilocybin or 'Magic Mushrooms' to Help the Terminally Ill (4/19/10: ABC News) Amanda Feilding's Talk at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference in San Jose (4/21/10) "Working with counterculture icon Humphry Osmond (who coined the term "psychedelic"), Hoffer sought to find medicinal uses for hallucinogenic drugs.[7] Theorizing that alcoholics needed to "hit bottom" before they were willing to stop drinking, Hoffer and Osmond treated alcoholics with LSD. Their stated goal was to simulate delirium tremens (i.e. "hitting bottom"). Osmond reported a fifty percent success rate in one study, although Hoffer speculated that it was more likely the psychedelic experience of LSD, rather than simulated delirium tremens, that convinced the alcoholics to stop drinking." (wiki) Psilocybin in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder "This study is the first clinical use of a psychedelic in the United States in more than 30 years. All the patients were beyond the reach of standard treatments, and all responded well. One patient had symptom remission for weeks following one psilocybin session. This study shows a potential breakthrough treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder, a recalcitrant disease that is the fourth most common outpatient psychiatric problem. The study was conducted by Dr. Francisco Moreno, M.D. at the University of Arizona Medical Center, and published in 2006. (Heffter Research Institute)
Noted Shamman María Sabina (wiki)(YouTube)(Erowid Character Vaults)
Bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_chaman_5	Dhushara.com/book/wass/wasson3
Ibogaine Ibogaine (wiki)
Ibogaine-Treatment My Eboga/Audio Files Ibogaine & Eboga News articles.doc Why Choose Ibogaine for Drug Detox? The quest for the ultimate cure for addiction R&D Medicines > Ibogaine for Drug Addiction	Worldwide Treatment Providers Ibogaine Outcome Study Progress Report.pdf Developing An Outcome Study of ibogaine therapy Articles for Further Information by Daniel Pinchbeck Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy (JAMA Abstract) IBOGAINE: CAN IT CURE ADDICTION WITHOUT THE HALLUCINOGENIC TRIP?
IBOGA THERAPY HOUSE/Links is THE best resource links page, for Ibogaine, that I've seen thus far. Fighting Drugs With Drugs: An Obscure Hallucinogen Gains Legitimacy as a Solution for Addictions (7/21/10) Pangea Biomedics is a fully medically-equipped holistic ibogaine treatment center located in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. The Iboga Therapy House is located 1.5 hrs from Vancouver BC, Canada; and "...is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the therapeutic uses of ibogaine." The addict’s last refuge? B.C.’s Iboga Therapy House is following in a decades-old tradition of underground rehab—administering a drug called ibogaine, which has the reported side effect of curbing addiction. But can these activists take their experiment mainstream? Patrick Karel Kroupa (also known as Lord Digital, born January 20, 1969, in Los Angeles, California) is an American writer, hacker and activist. Kroupa was a member of the legendary Legion of Doom hacker group and co-founded MindVox in 1991, with Bruce Fancher. He was a heroin addict from age 14 to 30 and got clean through the use of the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine.
Ketamine
Eleusis: Alternative Addiction Treatment Program Using Psychedelic Psychotherapy Dr. Igor Kungurtsev, a Russian psychiatrist, was involved in administering an experiment treating alcoholics with Ketamine. An article on his work, including a summary about a series of self-administrations of Ketamine, was published in the Fall 1991 issue of The Albert Hofmann Foundation Bulletin. 'Death-rebirth' psychotherapy with ketamine is this article. The Use of Ketamine in Psychiatry by E. KHORRAMZADEH. M.D., AND A. O. LOTFY, MD. Personality Predisposition and Emergence Phenomena with Ketamine by E. KHORRAMZDEH, M.D., AND A. O. LOTFY, M.D. The Combination of Psychedelic and Aversive Approaches in Alcoholism Treatment: The Affective Contra-Attribution Method by E. M. Krupitsky, MD; A. Ya Grineko, MD; T. N. Berkaliev, MD; A. I. Paley, MD; U. N. Tetrov, MD; K. A. Mushkov, MD; Yu. S. Borodikin, MD Ketamine Psychedelic Therapy (KPT): A Review of the Results of Ten Years of Research by E.M. Krupitsky, M.D., Ph.D.* & A.Y. Grinenko, M.D., Ph.D.**
MDMA
Adam & Evil?!
Ecstasy tested for trauma therapy ECSTASY NOT WHAT YOU THOUGHT The Ecstasy and the Agony (8/10/09) R&D Medicines > MAPS: MDMA Research Therapy Plus Ecstasy for PTSD (7/20/10) Ecstasy trials for combat stress (2/17/05) Why MDMA Should Not Have Been Made Illegal The Psychedelic Renaissance (1/4/10: Playboy) Long Trip for Psychedelic Drugs (9/27/04: Wired) MDMA, Ecstasy Research with Dr Michael Mithoefer Researchers Look to Ecstasy as PTSD Therapy Option	MDMA May Have Role in Treatment of PTSD (7/20/10) MDMA and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (12/12/10) Ecstasy 'relieves Parkinson's Disease' (2/14/01: BBC) Soul Medicine: Ecstasy (MDMA) as Therapy (12/23/09) Ecstasy Shows Promise as Treatment for PTSD (9/14/10) Warning: These drugs may improve your health (10/8/10) New Age Seekers: MDMA Use as an Adjunct to Spiritual Pursuit.pdf Ecstasy could help ease trauma long term (4/17/10: The Times of India) MSNBC. "Party drug ecstasy eases PTSD in small study." (4/19/10: Reuters) Breaking the Drug Taboo: Group of Traumatized Veterans Get Ecstasy Treatment 'Ecstasy' Use Studied to Ease Fear in Terminally Ill (12/27/04: Washington Post)
A Method of Conducting Therapeutic Sessions with MDMA.pdf by George R. Greer, M.D. Study of Vets Finds Ecstasy an Effective Treatment For PTSD (4/21/10: Popular Science) Ecstasy Improves Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment, Say Norwegian Researchers (1/10/09) MDMA (Ecstasy)-Assisted Psychotherapy Relieves Treatment-Resistant PTSD, Study Suggests (Science Daily 7/20/10) Party drug could ease trauma long term: Pilot studies demonstrate effectiveness of MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder. Researchers Use Ecstasy to Treat PTSD: Small study finds the psychedelic drug may help, but safety issues remain (7/19/10) MDMA (Ecstasy) Assisted Psychotherapy Relieves Treatment Resistant PTSD (07/19/10: The Journal of Psychopharmacology) MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy as an Intervention for People Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (10/10/08: Vanderbilt University) The Peace Drug: Post-traumatic stress disorder had destroyed Donna Kilgore's life. Then experimental therapy with MDMA, a psychedelic drug better known as ecstasy, showed her a way out. Was it a fluke -- or the future? (11/25/07: The Washington Post Magazine) Can the Peace Drug Help Clean Up the War Mess?: At a conference last weekend, researchers reported positive results on the effectiveness of MDMA in relieving PTSD and talked about psilocybin in reducing stress in late-stage cancer patients (4/20/10: Scientific American) Can 'ecstasy' cure PTSD?: An illegal psychedelic has promise as a cure for post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers. Following, a quick guide to "the peace drug" (4/26/10) Ecstasy Triumphs over Agony: MDMA Helps with Recovery from Trauma: An illicit drug shows promise as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (9/14/10)
The Inventor of MDMA Alexander Shulgin (wiki)(videos)
Shulgin Tribute	Dr. Ecstasy
Peyote / Mescaline
Mescaline Experiment On Human by Dr. Humphry Osmond (Video) Culture as Treatment, Culture as Inoculation by Matthew Kelley Ph.D. Peyote Use in the Treatment of Alcoholism in the Native American Church (9/3/09) Peyote on the Brain: Is the secret to alcoholism and other addictions locked up in hallucinogenic drugs? (2/03) "Stone Straight 2 is a followup on Stoned Straight, which aired in 2003 over CBC Radio One in Canada.The half-hour radio documentary profiles a unique substance abuse treatment facility in New Mexico, which uses peyote 'medicine' to quell the fire of addiction. You'll hear from Dr. Charles Grob, a UCLA psychiatrist on the forefront of psychedelic medicine; Dr. George Greer, medical director of the Heffter Institute; Dr. Matthew Kelley, former head psychologist at the NCI treatment center in Gallup, NM; and Dr. Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist with surprising evidence on why human beings must seek altered states of awareness." NA'NIZHOOZHI center NCI is the center mentioned in this show.
Salvia Divinorum Daniel Siebert
Salvia: Legal Herb Hallucinogen Draws Teens, Critics (3/20/06: NPR)	Kathleen Harrison at the WPF about Salvia Divinorum
Books Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest	Tihkal: The Continuation
Psychedelic Medicine [Two Volumes] [2 volumes]: New Evidence for Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments
Famous Psychedelic Advocates
Timothy Leary (wiki) Steve Jobs - called taking LSD as "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life." Br. David Steindl Rast - "a monk spends his whole life cultivating the same awakened attitude it gives you" (4/15/85: Newsweek ) Zalman Schachter-Shalomi - "You call the Sabbath a delight. It [MDMA] is like the Sabbath at the end of a long week." - June 1, 1985 Washington Post Kary Mullis - [Discoverer of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), key to DNA analysis] - "I think I would be stupid in some respects if it weren't for my psychedelic experiences." (his page) - In a Q&A interview published in the September, 1994, issue of California Monthly, Mullis said, "Back in the 1960s and early '70s I took plenty of LSD. A lot of people were doing that in Berkeley back then. And I found it to be a mind-opening experience. It was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took."[25] During a symposium held for centenarian Albert Hofmann, "Hofmann revealed that he was told by Nobel-prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis that LSD had helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences."[26] Replying to his own postulate during an interview for BBC's Psychedelic Science documentary, "What if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR?" He replied, "I don't know. I doubt it. I seriously doubt it."[27] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis#Use_of_LSD
Other Related Links
Psychedelic therapy (wiki) Psychedelic Spring in Prague Psychoactive Properties by Adam Gottlieb Hallucinogens and Transpersonal Medicine Doctors Again Dabbling in Psychedelic Drugs psylocybin, psychedelics back on scientific radar	Psychedelics and Entactogens in Psychotherapy Hallucinogens Tested to Help Treat Cancer Patients 7 Illegal Drugs That Are Surprisingly Good Medicine (12/6/10) The Use Of Psychedelics In Dutch Psychiatry Part I Of II (10/95) Media > Psychedelics conference describes the long strange trip to the lab Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again (4/11/10: The New York Times)
Johns Hopkin's Psilocybin Research Results And Media Coverage Dr. David Healy, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry - is the leading authority on the history of psychopharmacology. Psychedelic Healing?: Hallucinogenic drugs, which blew minds in the 1960s, soon may be used to treat mental ailments (12/28/07: Scientific American Mind) LEGAL HIGHS: A Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Herbs and Chemicals with Transpersonal Psychopharmacology: The Re-Emergence of Sacred Sacraments as Modern Medicine Johns Hopkins is seeking volunteers with a diagnosis of cancer to participate in a scientific study of states of consciousness brought about by psilocybin, and their impact on psychological distress and spirituality. Read a paper based on this government funded, Johns Hopkins, study, entitled Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance.pdf.