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A colleague and friend referred a shaman to my private practice. We did brief and very focused work in one area of distress. As our work together was ending, she told me about an upcoming retreat for mental health professionals focused on psychedelic medicine, bridging the gap between ceremony and t

Music is considered an important component of psychedelic therapy for mood disorders and addiction, but little empirical research has been done to examine the nature of its therapeutic role. A new paper from our Beckley/Imperial study, on psilocybin therapy for treatment-resistant depression,  reveals the ways in which subjective response to music is intensified under psychedelics, and demonstrates the influence of…

Neuroscientist Sara Lazar found that people who meditated had more gray matter in the part of the brain linked to decision-making and working memory.

As MDMA sits on the precipice of being legally approved as clinical treatment for PTSD in the United States, a team of researchers from the University of Exeter set out to try to better understand what long-term effects the drug has on a person’s ability to emotionally empathize with others.

Psychedelics could be 'next generation' of safer treatments for mental health

A scientist and a monk compare notes on meditation, therapy, and their effects on the brain

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy readies for phase III trials, a last step before possible prescription use in PTSD patients

The past decade’s wave of interest in mindfulness meditation has had a utilitarian air.

The past decade’s wave of interest in mindfulness meditation has had a utilitarian air.

"Psychedelic therapy is about using the drugs to dig down and get to the heart of the problems driving longterm mental illness," said psychiatrist Ben Sessa.

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It caused a stir when Sam Harris, in a new book titled Waking Up, changed his message from militant atheism to peaceful Buddhism. A positive message is better than a negative one, and since Buddhism is often labeled as “a religion without God,” Harris’s move isn’t as radical as it looks at first glance. He […]

The very idea of treating your body like a friend or a loved one, with love and kindness, may sound more like a recipe for overeating and body dissatisfaction than anything else.

What's behind the possible benefits of kiwi to sleep? There are a couple of characteristics of the fruit that may make it a strong sleep-promoting food: its high antioxidant levels and its high serotonin levels.