ABSTRACT

Integral Psychedelic Therapy is a groundbreaking, evidence-based collection that explores how psychedelic medicine can be incorporated into contemporary psychotherapy.

This book builds on current psychedelic research by providing an in-depth articulation of the practice of psychedelic therapy, weaving together a variety of complementary therapeutic frameworks, case examples, and practical guidance for cultivating a highly effective, ethically grounded, integral approach. Chapters by a diverse set of practicing psychotherapists and leading researchers aim to provide practitioners with a method that centers liberation of all dimensions of being through intersectional, client-centered, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused practices, alongside thoughtful attunement to the relational, somatic, imaginal, cultural, and transpersonal dimensions of healing.

Integral Psychedelic Therapy will be essential reading for psychotherapists in practice and in training as well as those seeking personal healing and holistic transformation.

chapter Chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 3|20 pages

Decolonizing Psychedelic Therapy

A Prayer for Awareness, Call for Commitment, and Offering of Applications

chapter Chapter 4|15 pages

Liberating Consent

A Kink-Informed Exploration of Consent in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

chapter Chapter 5|46 pages

The Heart of the Work

Relational Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

chapter Chapter 8|29 pages

Coming Home

Psychedelics, Symbolic Images, and the Innate Intelligence of the Psyche

chapter Chapter 9|29 pages

The Mystery of the Unconscious

Non-Ordinary States in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

chapter Chapter 10|15 pages

Invoking the Numinous

Ritual, Medicine, and Magic in Psychedelic Psychotherapy

chapter Chapter 12|18 pages

Dimensions of Attunement

Music Listening, Resonance, and the Vibrational Field in Relational Psychedelic Therapy

chapter Chapter 14|38 pages

The Upside of Coming Down

The Opportunities and Challenges of Psychedelic Integration