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Podcast: Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Episode: Stacey Kosmerly, Ph.D.: Psychedelics & Psychotherapy
Description: Comments or feedback? Send us a text! For many people, the term “psychedelics” conjures up images of hippies tripping through the Summer of Love, Timothy Leary, strange and mystical spiritual experiences, street drugs with a high likelihood of generating “insanity” and maybe even a Pink Floyd concert. While psychedelics are certainly powerful compounds that must be approached with a high degree of caution, the potential for psychedelic compounds such as psilocybin to augment the effectiveness of psychotherapy is an area of intense clinical and research interest among organizations such as Johns Hopkins University as well as the Multidisc...