Adam Knowles – 'Our telephone line back to source'
'Our telephone line back to source' and what those in the UK make of their ayahuasca experiences. A report on IPA research.
Winner, Breaking Convention Research Award, Humanities, 2018
Last year I met with four people from the UK who told me the sense they make of their ayahuasca experiences here and abroad. In this presentation, I analyse their tales of trouble, terror, temerity and transcendence. Some said to me that their ayahuasca experiences made a profound change to their lives thanks to insight and healing, while others were less enthusiastic. I will describe the five themes that I developed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. I will make the case as to why psychotherapists should research psychedelics, and how existentialism questions the common language, ontology and epistemology of research.
Filmed at Breaking Convention 2019
‘Our telephone line back to source’ and what those in the UK make of their ayahuasca experiences. A report on IPA research.
Winner, Breaking Convention Research Award, Humanities, 2018
Last year I met with four people from the UK who told me the sense they make of their ayahuasca experiences here and abroad. In this presentation, I analyse their tales of trouble, terror, temerity and transcendence. Some said to me that their ayahuasca experiences made a profound change to their lives thanks to insight and healing, while others were less enthusiastic. I will describe the five themes that I developed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. I will make the case as to why psychotherapists should research psychedelics, and how existentialism questions the common language, ontology and epistemology of research.
Filmed at Breaking Convention 2019
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My report is available at https://www.breakingconvention.co.uk/awards.html under the '2018' tab