Psychedelics and Mental Health
News Team member Lauryn Palacio reports how psychedelic drugs may be effective in treating mental health disorders and how stigma may complicate steps forward.
Roman Palitsky: The Risks of Meditation and Psychedelics
In this episode, Dr. Roman Palitsky, a clinical psychologist and Director of Research Projects at Emory Spiritual Health, discusses the connections between spirituality, meditation, and mental health. He highlights the lesser-known risks of meditation and psychedelics, practices often celebrated for their benefits but not thoroughly examined for their challenges.
Dr. Chantelle Thomas: Sanity in the Wild New World of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
This podcast will be of huge interest to anyone who wants to get an insider’s view of the current psychedelic world in general and the risks, challenges, and deep satisfactions that can come from working with psychedelics in a therapeutic context in particular. You will never look at psychedelics the same after listening to our discussion with Dr. Thomas.
Research Into Psychedelic Drugs Surges
News Team member Nolan Shah examines the surge of interest in psychedelic drugs and asks whether regulators can stay ahead of popular enthusiasm for them.
Dr. Boadie Dunlop & Dr. George Grant: Part 2 – Transcendent Experience and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Join host Dr. Charles Raison for a part 2 of lively discussion with Dr. Boadie Dunlop and Dr. George Grant, co-founders of the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality. We dive deeper into the role of spirituality in human health in general and in psychedelic-assisted therapy, or PAT.
Dr. Boadie Dunlop & Dr. George Grant: Part 1 – Transcendent Experience and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Join host Dr. Charles Raison for a lively discussion with Dr. Boadie Dunlop and Dr. George Grant, co-founders of the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality. We hear how the center reflects a fully collaborative effort between perspectives often seen as separate or even conflictual: biomedical psychiatry and spiritual health.
Dr. Rosalind Watts: Psychedelics as the Start, and Not the Ending, of the Journey of Healing
In this episode, we trace clinical psychologist Dr. Rosalind Watts’ journey in the psychedelic world, listening to her describe her initial hope that psychedelics might routinely cure mental illness give way to a growing concern that increasingly unrealistic hopes for these medicines were distorting both their risks and benefits.
Psychiatric Psychedelics
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash (rights-free) By Dynasti deGouville Psychedelics, or serotonergic hallucinogens, are powerful psychoactive substances that alter perception, mood, and a multitude of cognitive processes in the human brain. The name psychedelics for these substances was coined…