Could psychedelics aid the therapy process? | Dr. Benjamin Lewis | TEDxSaltLakeCity
NOTE FROM TED: Experiments discussed in this talk should not be performed outside of accredited research settings. Research around psychedelics remains an emerging field of study. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdf
Can psychedelic-assisted therapy be a cure for the public health crisis that is loneliness or a loss of connection? Using results from his clinical trial on group psilocybin-assisted therapy, Dr. Benjamin Lewis shares the ways that these emerging treatments, when utilized in a thoughtful, safe way that embeds medication in a psychotherapeutic process, can not only improve difficult-to-treat mental health conditions, but improve our overall approach to mental health care as well. Ben Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI) where he practices adult inpatient psychiatry and is the medical director of the HMHI Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Clinic https://healthcare.utah.edu/hmhi/treatments/ketamine-assisted-psychotherapy
His research focuses on psychedelic-assisted therapies with an emphasis on psilocybin and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. He is interested in the overlap of mindfulness and psychedelic interventions and is deeply invested in investigating these practices for the alleviation of human suffering. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
NOTE FROM TED: Experiments discussed in this talk should not be performed outside of accredited research settings. Research around psychedelics remains an emerging field of study. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdf
Can psychedelic-assisted therapy be a cure for the public health crisis that is loneliness or a loss of connection? Using results from his clinical trial on group psilocybin-assisted therapy, Dr. Benjamin Lewis shares the ways that these emerging treatments, when utilized in a thoughtful, safe way that embeds medication in a psychotherapeutic process, can not only improve difficult-to-treat mental health conditions, but improve our overall approach to mental health care as well. Ben Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI) where he practices adult inpatient psychiatry and is the medical director of the HMHI Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Clinic https://healthcare.utah.edu/hmhi/treatments/ketamine-assisted-psychotherapy
His research focuses on psychedelic-assisted therapies with an emphasis on psilocybin and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. He is interested in the overlap of mindfulness and psychedelic interventions and is deeply invested in investigating these practices for the alleviation of human suffering. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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I got my stuff from this mycologist whose been my guide, he got shrooms, Lsd,mdma,DMT, edibles etc. Ships local and international discreetly
Way to go Ben. I like the cool sticker on your door
This is very important, and we are so glad that researchers have started to look into the benefits of psychedelics. So many anecdotal observations suggest the compelling benefit of using psilocybin. The regulators and funders (eg, NIH) should encourage more research and clinical trials, and the government should facilitate access to the substance without all the many hurdles and obstacles that exist today. Help people get better please.
Does anyone else think it's questionable that this has a few hundred likes from a channel with 40 million subscribers?
I feel this makes a full circle, as I came to the same conclusions 40 years ago in SLC, including while at temple square. Highly recommend!
Could psychedelics aid the therapy process? Yes, absolutely and immensely!! I have read the Stanislav Grof books years ago in which he did just that.
Darling, its all depends on what grane of success you are value the most!
For example me:I'm going to celebrate a 25 anniversary of me and my wife together, raising two healthy children.
That is a success in my book! Find yours!
I'm grateful this work is being done and that caring physicians are out there helping individuals navigate these challenges with creative and effective treatments.
I think its dangerous to be talking and relying on psychedelics so much as a healing tool,I have no doubt they have a place for some people and in some situations but this whole psychedelic renaissance is coming across as this cure all panacea when there are so many other less intensive and risky healing modalities that can work.
Peer support netwroks and yoga,breathwrok,community projects as well as somatic work,yoga,qi gong…being in nature,talking therapy,group work,…endless things that could help people support one another and healing in community not just in intensive therapist dependent individualistic settings that often require alot of intensive one on one care afterwards in order to be safe".Most people cannot even get access to talk therapy and now he is talking about two therapist plus aftercare…etc.
Indigenous groups have a whole tribal structures with which to hold people unlike most modern settings.
I think there is a place but we need so many more places in society for connection and community in the first place than maybe so many would not suffer with isolation or struggling alone with cancer diagnosis or generally suffering with alienation which so many are.
Housing issues,low pay..childcare etc all of these things to be taken care of and talking about psychedelics without any of these things just comes across as a little indulgent and like a bunch of scientists or paid academics just want a chance to indulge and get some funding for this when so many other social factors are ignored.
In 2024 this is starting to feel very stale.
This is awesome. Great presentation and information!
Such important information! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and being so open.✨
More often than not it's the drugs and the food that's doing the damage in the first place, fix that first. Too many people think going vegan is a great idea and they're not getting the nutrition they should. Too many people are living on fast food as I suspect your staff are. Sugary drinks and donuts.
I love this it's so unbelievably close to me. I am going to definitely experience this with or without a therapist there because I'm completely intolerant to all and every antidepressant that I've ever taken and I've taken a lot over 28 years get that 28 years nothing has helped I have been post-traumatic stress disorder and heavy doses of severe depression anxiety and it will not leave me It haunts me it taunts me it follows me It makes me very sad it makes me very very isolated and it makes me love silence but I'll never stop talking about mental health ever there's a reason for that but I'm not going to go into it but I will say that I would love the Ayahaska experience my fellow veterans have tried it and under the care of a shaman in somewhere Brazil or Costa Rica and other places that's the experience I'm going to do that experience is my next step in helping myself get rid of these awful childhood things that have caused me to become very depressed I don't care about anyone's ideal's thoughts anything I'll listen but if you're going to try to convince me to take any more antidepressants I will will not I will not take anymore of your antidepression medication or your antipsychotic medications or any type of pill for medication that you're going to tell me will work for me sorry I wish I could believe you but from experience the percentage of me getting zero effects from your big pharma is that zero so please do not press anymore Big pharma on me because big pharma doesn't work for me I know you're sad My insurance is paid you thousands and thousands of dollars over the years Big pharma 2 help me with this and I'm very sorry you've done nothing except I feel like it's become worse because I have high hopes when I put one of your pills down my throat only to be disappointed again no more I I wish all mental health warriors well!! And my veteran friends and others that have went through the various different plant-based treatments well I'm going to say it like it is Big pharma You're in big trouble so get ready cuz when I hear these guys that have the same thing I do and they still do It did not cure them but man some of the comments are I can breathe again I feel like I can talk to people again I feel like I can be myself again I feel like I know myself now again that's all I need to hear and the success rate is unbelievable it's incredible the success rate some people that do this have zero depressive symptoms for up to 3 years I'm all in I would give anything to be myself just for a month 3 years on my goodness I would pay lots and lots of money for that but these plant-based treatments really aren't that expensive Costa Rica here I come get ready cuz I'm ready I'm positive and this is the most positive I felt in 28 years That's a long time I am what you call a very tired depressed person and I hate the title myself like that but it's what it is I'm looking real forward to say I suffered from depression a lot in my life but I went and took an alternative method all the way as far as I could take it and it has helped me can't wait to say that Peace out
All these doctors are just now discovering what I learned at burning man in 2006.
This is what just happened to the connection: there are many linear Wi-Fi fields pointed through the windows because the Wi-Fi is correctly managed through own methods. The live video that has just been published is not public anymore and I am answering it here to keep record of it.