With Love from a Children’s Therapist
In With Love from a Children's Therapist, Stacy Schaffer takes readers on a deeply personal and professional journey through trauma, resilience, and healing.As a survivor and a therapist with more than twenty years of experience, Schaffer weaves together her story with the lessons she's learned from working with children, teens, and young adults. She exploresThe lasting impact of childhood trauma and the path to recovery.How anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation manifest in young people.Practical ways to create safety, understanding, and healing for ourselves and others.Raw, honest, and deeply compassionate, this book is a testament to the power of storytelling in breaking silence and fostering healing. For anyone seeking understanding, hope, or a way forward, With Love from a Children's Therapist is an essential read.
Creative Play in Family Therapy
This practical resource integrates family therapy theory with playful interventions and techniques to allow family therapists to successfully engage and include children in the session.Many therapists that are trained in family therapy lack training in child-centered play techniques. This book effectively bridges the gap between popular theories and models in family therapy and the practice of working with children in a family context. Showcasing playful therapy techniques across and within each of the most common models of a family therapy such as Experiential, Structural, and Narrative Therapy, as well as Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), this book is accessible to a wide range of clinicians. Additionally, the author offers clear tangible interventions adaptable for both in-person and teletherapy sessions.This book is essential for practicing therapists, students in training, clinical supervisors, and anyone who works with children in a therapeutic capacity.
The Un-Making of Them
Ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists with many clinicians struggling to address their unique needs. This book presents a groundbreaking collection of chapters sharing insights and reflections on clinical work with ex-boarders in different settings and circumstances with the aim establishing a body of knowledge for clinical work with these clients.This book aims to demonstrate how the fall-out from boarding is much wider than was previously thought whilst reporting on new and innovative treatment methods that may serve to help clinicians address those consequences with boarders. Focusing on the experience and insights of clinicians, many of whom are ex-boarders themselves, the book features contributions from a wide range of theoretical backgrounds, including psychodynamic, 'energy psychology', post-Jungian, and more. It studies how the understanding of the "Boarding School Syndrome" has been enlarged by recent advances in Attachment therapy, trauma studies, neuroscience and pastoral/ safeguarding awareness within education, and brings the current research into new territories for this issue. Topics covered include the effect of boarding school on sibling relationships, miliary family boarders, ex-boarder therapists, and using EMDR for boarding school trauma. The reader will gain a wider understanding about how individuals and society are impacted by this way of raising children and what evidenced pathways to recovery are being evolved.This book is written in an accessible jargon-free style and will appeal to psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, and counsellors, as well as ex-boarders and parents interested in the impact of boarding schools from a professional or personal perspective.
Good Goodbyes
Good Goodbyes is a concise resource on therapy termination. Organized in a Q&A format, this book works through the phases of psychotherapy, identifying warning signs of premature endings and helpful techniques to support treatment.
Good Goodbyes
Good Goodbyes is a concise resource on therapy termination. Organized in a Q&A format, this book works through the phases of psychotherapy, identifying warning signs of premature endings and helpful techniques to support treatment.
Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD
In Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD, a group of eminent analysts highlight the positive impact that psychoanalytic work and the clinical space can have on children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Thoroughly researched and informed by decades of work in the field, this volume includes contributions from well-known scientists and analysts such as Fran癟ois Gonon and Patrick Landman. Each contribution addresses sensitive and complex issues, including diagnostic criteria, behavioural problems and patterns, pharmacological intervention, ethical implications and the involvement of parents in treatment. Based on empirical data, the contributors offer a well-balanced critique of standardised approaches to ADHD, and make a case for psychoanalysis as an indispensable tool for both the child with ADHD and their caregivers. Throughout, the book shares the importance of the child having a safe space to explain, in their own words, their mind-body experience. Written in accessible language, this volume will be of interest to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with children, as well as those offering specialised care in a medical or educational setting.
Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems
Most clients seeking therapy want to be helped with specific emotional problems with which they are struggling, and yet many therapists are reluctant to offer problem-focused therapy. Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems presents the case for such an approach and details how it can be practised efficiently. The book outlines the 26 principles of 'Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems' (ETSCP) with clinical examples demonstrating each of the main points. Topics covered include identifying when problem-focused help is appropriate, developing a problem list with the client and setting an agenda for each session, problem assessment, and helping a client find, develop, and implement a solution. The book is highly practical in emphasis with approachable guidelines for helping clients directly with their specific problems and appendices that feature a pre-therapy form, a pre-session form, a session rating form and an end of therapy questionnaire.Designed to be read by therapists, counsellors, counselling and clinical psychologists, and students of these disciplines, this accessible text will be valuable to readers across different levels of experience.
Assessing Psychometric Fitness of Intelligence Tests
This book addresses issues and concerns regarding appropriate ethical and scientific underpinnings for the appropriate interpretation of intelligence tests. It's written for psychologists, professors, researchers, and practitioners concerned with applied psychometrics in evaluating intelligence or cognitive abilities and test assessment.
Justin Case Sits with Anxiety
Today is a big day...Justin Case is taking on his first babysitting job!He has been waiting for this day for what feels like forever, but suddenly gets a case of the "what ifs?"What if the twins fall and hurt themselves? What if I have to change a diaper? Everyone gets scared and worried sometimes, but worries don't have to stop us from doing the things we care about. Follow Justin's journey and learn how the brain comes up with worried thoughts and icky feelings, how normal that is, and what we can do about it. Based on the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy, this workbook is packed full of fun activities. It also includes a section for parents and caregivers with advice on how best to support your child.
Black American's Strengths-Based Cultural Practices
Black Americans' Strengths-Based Cultural Practices: Tools for Clinicians to Promote Psychological Well-Being uses historical, social, scientific, and psychological research to detail how mental health professionals can use the cultural practices of Black Americans and communities to promote positive psychosocial health.Building on experiences of racial oppression and cultural values, Dr's. Carter, Pieterse, and Forsyth offer an evidence-based framework for recognizing and enhancing strengths-based cultural practices of Black American clients and families in mental health interventions. This volume will broaden the base of work on the mental health treatment of Black Americans and provide an approach to understanding the unique cultural influences of Black people as they relate to psychological health.The book is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including social workers, mental health practitioners, nurses, teachers and sociologists at various levels of education and training.
The Betrayal Bind
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR PARTNER, YOUR PRIMARY PERSON, IN AN INSTANT BECOMES A SOURCE OF DANGER AND PAIN? The Betrayal Bind introduces new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing. Discovering a partner's sexual betrayal spins your world out of control. In a split second, your sense of safety is shattered, your trust is gone, and everything you thought you could count on is in question. Betrayed partners, whether dealing with an isolated infidelity or a pattern of sexual compulsivity, need immediate support to navigate the new terrain of their relationship. They need a clear articulation of betrayal trauma, a thorough education about their normal attachment-based reactions, and a proven path to healing. By focusing on how a partner's attachment system functions in the wake of sexual portrayal, The Betrayal Bind offers a new, game-changing exploration into an age-old problem andconnects the dots from research to the lived experience of betrayed partners. Michelle Mays, LPC, CSAT-S, is a licensed professional counselor and expert in treating sexual betrayal and trauma. She is the founder of the Center for Relational Recovery and the creator of the Braving Hope(R) Treatment Model. To learn more visit michellemays.com.
Rants for Rachel
"Rants for Rachel" is a 'rant collection' of my private journal entries taken from my bigger book, "Excerpts of a Mental Illness Life". This book is specifically dedicated to Rachel, and includes lots of humor, hardships, stressful rants, heavy cursing, and overall wacky disgruntledness at life and its absurdities; hopefully in-turn causing encouragement towards existence. It also includes exclusive excerpts being saved for my second book! If interested, you can find "Excerpts of a Mental Illness Life", by Zelphie Addams, at most retail stores and online, it's the full book of my private journal excerpts that also include more in-depth tales of my life and struggling with a disease. This first book covers my life years from 2004-2020. Please enjoy! PS I am currently in the process of writing my second full book for years 2021-2026. Keep an eye on that coming out sometime 2028! Still not sure the title for it, but it will be found under "author Zelphie Addams", and most likely printed through Lulu.com
Psychological Treatment Approaches for Young Children and Their Families
Early childhood is the most critical phase in human development. Negative influences can contribute to irreversible life-long struggles. What is learned in the first five years of life becomes the foundation for subsequent learning. It is vitally important that we effectively treat mental health problems when we find them in preschoolers.Psychological Treatment Approaches for Children and Their Families provides a comprehensive overview of 14 commonly available therapeutic interventions for children aged 3-5 years. It fills an important gap in a field where information about treatment options is limited compared with those suitable for older children and adolescents. The interventions presented are evidence-based and reflect various research backgrounds and theories of change. They are grouped into four sections covering individual child treatments, parent-focused approaches, dyadic carer-child interventions, and family-systems models. Each section describes the models in a condensed yet comprehensive summary, offering information on its evidence base, key concepts, stages of therapy, session structure, treatment effects, and training options, along with a case study example illustrating the therapy in practice. The structure allows the reader to decide what treatments can be used for what presenting problem and under what conditions. A set of exercise questions concludes the end of each chapter to encourage better theory-practice links. The result is a text that provides ample opportunities for students and therapists to develop a knowledge base and understanding of how to best approach the treatment of psychological disorders in this age group.Edited and authored by a select group of experienced clinical psychologists and psychiatrists with a particular interest in paediatric clinical psychology, this text is relevant for students, therapists, trainers and supervisors, referrers, researchers, and funding bodies, as well as all those undergoing training in disciplines related to child development and clinical child psychology.The Interventions reviewed are: Play Therapy Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Circle of Security (COS) Tuning into Kids (TIK) Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Integrated Family Intervention for Child Conduct Problems (IFI) Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Watch, Wait, and Wonder (WWW) Narrative Therapy (NT) Strategic Family Therapy (SRFT) Structural Family Therapy (SFT) Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT)
Individual Counseling and Therapy
The fourth edition of Individual Counseling and Therapy: Skills and Techniques decodes the nuances of therapeutic language and helps students discover their clinical voice.Lucidly written and engaging, the text integrates theory and practice with richly illustrated, real-life case examples and therapeutic dialogues that demystify the counseling process. The therapeutic skills and techniques delineated here will build students' skillsets and deepen their confidence throughout the counseling process--from intake to problem exploration, awareness raising, problem resolution, and finally to termination.Students will delight in the text's depth, insights, genuineness, and accessibility as they develop and hone their therapeutic voice for clinical practice. An instructor's manual, PowerPoints, and chapter test questions are available to instructors on the Routledge website.
Positive Sexuality
This book focuses on an emerging, multidisciplinary, positive sexuality framework that guides sexuality research, education, and practice.Using this positive sexuality framework, this book will provide helping professionals and others with current research and information on topics and populations that are often missed or misrepresented, including but not limited to: lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and other orientations; transgender, nonbinary, and other non-cisgender identities; seniors; sex workers; racial minorities; and other marginalized peoples. This framework, based on the social and behavioral sciences, can be used in tandem with other theoretical frameworks, modalities, and methodologies to better support a growing, multifaceted, and unique human population. Chapters are authored by topic experts and utilize the most recent scholarship pertaining to positive sexuality. Readers will come to understand diverse sexuality more completely and inextricably linked to other parts of one's identity and learn to address diverse sexual topics and issues more openly and with a spirit of compassion and human connectedness.This edited volume is a must-read for sexuality researchers, clinicians, helping professionals, policymakers, and students from diverse educational backgrounds who are interested in human sexuality.
Music Therapy in Children's Palliative Care
Giving voice to the perspectives of children and families with lived experience of children's palliative care, Music Therapy in Children's Palliative Care: Collaborative Family and Practitioner Voices explores the integral role of music therapy and its benefits for supporting child and family wellbeing within a range of children's palliative care settings. This book places the voices of children and families supported by children's palliative care at the centre as they articulate their own experiences of music therapy alongside music therapists to develop theory and practice in this area.Through their unique, collaborative writing approach, contributing authors ensure that both perspectives of the therapeutic relationship - those of the families and the therapists - are represented throughout, offering a comprehensive view of their shared journey. Readers will benefit from learning about how music therapy may offer physical, emotional, social and spiritual support, aiming to enhance quality of life for both children and families. Equality, inclusion and belonging operate at the heart of this book, capturing the diversity of families that use palliative care services.This book is a must read for any music therapist working within a children's palliative care setting. It will also be a compelling text for those with lived experiences, practitioners, educators, students and researchers.
The Multimodal Brief Systemic Training Programme (Mbstp) for Primary Care
This textbook presents an innovative educational and training protocol for treating mental health patients in primary care: the Multimodal Brief Systemic Training (MBSTP). Blending theory with practice, this manual offers a rigorous, versatile, and integrative approach, grounded in research, that can be easily adopted by primary care professionals--including general practitioners, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. It is not only invaluable for psychotherapy students but also serves as a vital resource for physicians and other non-mental health professionals seeking to support individuals facing cancer, chronic pain, palliative care, and other conditions that intertwine emotional, mental, and behavioural challenges within their close relational systems. The MBSTP is a compelling alternative to existing evidence-based training programs, which often centre on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Designed as a continuing education course led by a team of mental health specialists, this training provides a structured pathway for professional development. This book will help to reignite practitioners' interest in systemic thinking, encouraging them to revisit its significance in their work, or, for those new to the concept, to embrace it as a crucial aspect of their professional growth and contribute meaningfully to their evolution in the field.
Revitalizing Health Care Ethics
This open access book explores the origins and development of the clinician's moral voice and how that voice is embedded in the informal ethical discourse of everyday health care. This moral voice, developed over the course of a lifetime--including through professional education and practice--enables clinicians to understand and address the ethical issues that arise in their everyday work with patients, families, and colleagues. The early chapters explain how health care students move from outsiders to insiders--members of the distinct moral and professional communities that define each particular field of health care. The book describes how students, trainees, and clinicians draw on and extend their own existing intellectual, emotional, and moral capacities, and how they use these capacities to address the daily challenges, ethical and otherwise, that arise in the clinic. This approach is designed both to empower clinicians and to inform bioethicists and others in their attempts to work more effectively within clinical settings. This book is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Der Sinn des Lebens
In seinem Alterswerk Der Sinn des Lebens fasste Adler seinen der Individualpsychologie zugrunde liegenden philosophischen Tenor zusammen. Der Ausdruck "Sinn des Lebens" hat bei Adler zwei verschiedene Bedeutungen: einmal den Sinn, den ein bestimmter Mensch in seinem Leben sucht und findet und der aufs engste zusammenh瓣ngt mit der Meinung, die er von sich, den Mitmenschen und der Welt hat; zweitens wird darunter der "wahre" Sinn des Lebens verstanden, jener Sinn, der au?erhalb unserer Erfahrung liegt und der auch von jemandem verfehlt werden kann, der fest davon 羹berzeugt ist, zu wissen, worauf es im Leben ankommt. "Nach einem Sinn des Lebens zu fragen hat nur Wert und Bedeutung, wenn man das Bezugssystem Mensch-Kosmos im Auge hat". Die stete Anforderung aus dem Kosmos hei?t "Entwicklung", welche aus dem nativen Minderwertigkeitsgef羹hl nach Selbsterhaltung, Vermehrung, Kontakt mit der Au?enwelt und Streben nach einer "idealen Gemeinschaft der Zukunft" im Sinne von Immanuel Kant dr瓣ngt. Alfred Adler (1870-1937) war ein 繹sterreichischer Arzt und Psychotherapeut. Inhalt: - Die Meinung 羹ber sich und 羹ber die Welt - Psychologische Mittel und Wege zur Erforschung des Lebensstils - Die Aufgaben des Lebens - Das Leib-Seele-Problem - K繹rperform, Bewegung und Charakter - Der Minderwertigkeitskomplex - Der ?berlegenheitskomplex - Typen der Fehlschl瓣ge - Die fiktive Welt des Verw繹hnten - Was ist wirklich eine Neurose? - Sexuelle Perversionen - Erste Kindheitserinnerungen - Gemeinschaftshindernde Kindheitssituationen und deren Behebung - Tag- und Nachttr瓣ume - Der Sinn des Lebens - Stellung zum Berater - Individualpsychologischer Fragebogen
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents will help you unlock a deeper knowledge of your child's feelings, inviting you to explore the deepest questions about parenting and find meaningful answers.
Handbook of Mindfulness
Reflecting a decade of tremendous growth in mindfulness research and interventions, this authoritative handbook is now in a significantly revised second edition with 75% new material. The volume examines the interface of contemporary psychological science and ancient contemplative traditions. It presents cutting-edge work on the neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal mechanisms and effects of meditative practices. Chapters on exemplary applications review mindfulness-based interventions for both clinical and nonclinical populations. Contributors describe the development of and evidence base for each approach and identify important directions for future investigation. New to This Edition *Most chapters are new or extensively updated. *Chapters on emotion regulation processes and interventions for chronic pain. *Chapters on interventions in school and work settings. *Chapter on adapting mindfulness-based research and interventions for Black communities. *Chapters on neurophenomenology, process-based research, and Buddhist philosophy.
Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Dsm-5-Tr Personality Disorders
The Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM-5-TR Personality Disorders is a hands-on manual of the most current and effective, evidence-based assessment and treatment interventions for challenging disorders.The beginning chapters describe several cutting-edge trends in the diagnosis, case conceptualization, and treatments. This is followed by specific chapters focusing on evidence-based diagnosis and treatment interventions for each of the 10 DSM-5-TR personality disorders. Emphasized are the most recent developments from Cognitive Behavior Therapies, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, Schema Therapy, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Mentalization-Based Treatment, and more. This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and includes new research for each chapter on DSM disorders. As in previous editions, extensive case material is used to illustrate key points of diagnosis and treatment.This book provides essential knowledge and skills to health and mental health practitioners working with personality disordered clients, as well as to students in psychology, counseling, psychiatry, nursing, and social work programs.
Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress
The second edition of Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress expands the five evidence-informed CE-CERT practices for supporting emotional well-being in workers exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. Adding new insights, additional research support, and fresh examples, the conversational tone makes this edition eminently readable and especially useful.Not only does the book provide helping professionals with a portfolio of skills that support emotion regulation and recovery from secondary trauma exposure, it also enhances the experience of the helping encounter. Each chapter presents evidence-informed skills that allow readers to regulate distressing emotions and foster increased empathy for those suffering from trauma. Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress goes beyond the usual discussion of burnout to talk in specific terms about what we do about the very real stress that is produced by this work.
Therapeutic Love and Heartfullness
This book introduces the concepts of "therapeutic love" and "heartfullness," combining models of group analysis, art therapy, and individual psychotherapy to present a new psychotherapeutic framework where non-erotic love is engendered and evoked within therapeutic encounters.The heart has often been conceptualised as symbolic of sexuality and eroticism, with little meaning beyond the romantic, and therefore often removed from psychotherapeutic perspectives. Responding to this, the author calls for placing the heart as the central point of reference in therapeutic work, emphasizing how it is touched during a therapeutic session. This, in turn, gives way for the therapist's own emotions and thoughts, such as empathy, identification, concern, protectiveness and laughter, to be released.Building upon the author's 40 years of experience in practice and new developments in these models, this book 'meanders' through evolving theories and integrates them for both patients and trainees across backgrounds and cultures. Enriched with the author's personal clinical vignettes and unique influences of music, art, golf, and even Ireland, this book aims to give a greater voice to the patient-and their heart- within the therapeutic space.This book is essential reading for any counsellor, therapist, or analyst and offers a new way of looking at therapeutic endeavours across methodologies in all their simplicities and complexities.
Secrets in Psychotherapy
This book brings together contemporary perspectives from psychodynamic treatment, advances in cognitive science, medicine, and neuroscience in a user-friendly format to guide the beginning to more advanced practitioner in working with secrets that emerge during psychotherapy.Despite their ubiquity in life and in clinical practice, secrets and secret-keeping receive limited attention in the training and skill set required for mental health clinicians. Drawing on personal experience and clinical expertise as well as film, memoir, and literature, Dr. Kathryn Zerbe shares how secrets come to light in life and within treatment and demonstrates the powerful hold that secrets can have on our lives. This book offers a fresh take on how we view our secrets, and how we can use them as a tool to sustain our most intimate and valued connections over the course of a lifetime. Using cutting-edge research as well as honed clinical expertise, the author suggests how one might go about managing the secrets of everyday living that we must keep as well as how we can identify which we can let go. Particular attention is paid to the mind/body relationship and somatic countertransference reactions. Each chapter suggests guidelines to promote wellness and resilience in the secret keeper, whether that be the psychotherapist or their patient.Written with compassion and in a user-friendly style, Secrets in Psychotherapy will benefit anyone who is navigating the thorny terrain of keeping a secret for themselves or someone they know. It is an essential read for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and practicing mental health professionals of all disciplines.
Creative Counselling with Adults
Tanja Sharpe's Creative Counselling model shows how to incorporate creativity at every stage of the therapeutic process, from contracting through to the final session. In this book, she provides practical ideas and interventions to work creatively with adults. Separated into three parts, the book provides creative interventions relevant for a wide range of presenting issues, journaling prompts for clients and ideas to incorporate creativity into the supervision process. Bonus content! This book grants access to ten videos that demonstrate creative counselling interventions in practice and will further inspire your creativity in the therapy room.
Persuasion and Healing
A thorough update of Jerome Frank's groundbreaking work on the science and philosophy of psychotherapy.In this updated edition of Persuasion and Healing, Julia B. Frank, MD, and Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, examine psychological healing in both scientific and cultural terms, building upon Jerome D. Frank and his colleagues' sixty years of research into the mechanisms of psychotherapy and the nature of therapeutic relationships. J. D. Frank's insights into the common features of effective psychotherapy shed light on an enormous range of therapeutic activities, from professional care offered by people of diverse training to faith healing, indigenous healing, relief of suffering in medical illness, and other disruptions of people's relationships and core beliefs. This edition applies Frank's scientifically supported, transdiagnostic, humanistic principles to narrative and cognitive behavioral individual and group psychotherapies in both traditional and newer forms. The authors look beyond the bounds of professional services, discussing applications of the principles of psychotherapy that promote resilience in the face of the increasing worldwide burden of mental illnesses and demoralization related to rapid technological change, cultural dislocation, violence, and disasters of many kinds. Therapeutic innovations supported by Frank's work range from the training and deployment of lay mental health workers in low-resource areas to digitally enhanced care.This classic work is a must-read for anyone dedicated to understanding psychotherapy in all its forms as the application of the compassionate principles of persuasion and healing to the mental health challenges of a troubled world.
Radical Adventure
At age twenty-seven, Andrew Feldmar accepted a tentative offer from his supervisor, Zenon Pylyshyn, a participant in the first experiments with LSD-25, to experience an LSD trip. Following that initiation, he took various other substances, always returning to LSD. During his apprenticeship with R. D. Laing, he was trained in Laing's approach to LSD-therapy. A few years later, the use of these substances was prohibited. Now, after more than forty years, research has begun again into the healing possibilities of psychedelic psychotherapy. A movement has begun to have psychedelics, entheogens, and empathogens accepted worldwide as legal. However, training in how to use them varies. Feldmar details fascinating stories of patients whose recovery hinged upon their use of LSD. He talks of how a single session of MDMA assisted many to attain insights that enabled their psychotherapy to proceed faster and deeper than before. He wants his experiences to help the next generation of psychedelic psychotherapists. They demonstrate that the most important aspect of psychedelic psychotherapy is the human connection: being involved and engaged with the other. There cannot be a protocol to follow, programmed music played, orders given. The therapist needs to feel at home within the altered state of consciousness of the patient during the session. The only way to learn this is through apprenticeship and time is running out as the older generation who worked in this way is dying out. The gains are high with this type of therapy, but so are the dangers. Thus, the focus needs to be not on the drug, but on the relationship between the therapist and the patient. Psychedelic psychotherapy is not for everyone but done well with the right patient and therapist, it can be transformative.
