Main description:

Integral Psychedelic Therapy is a ground-breaking, 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 complimentary 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.

Contents:

Foreword, Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold, MFT

1. Introduction, Jason Butler, PhD & Genesee Herzberg PsyD

2. The Attack on Psychedelic Therapy and its Recovery, Richard Miller, PhD

3. Decolonizing Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: A Prayer for Awareness, Call for Commitment, and Invocation of Applications, Danielle Herrera, MFT

4. Liberating Consent: A Kink-Informed Exploration of Consent in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Emma Knighton, LMFT

5. The Heart of the Work: Relational Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Genesee Herzberg, PsyD & Jason Butler, PhD

6. A Somatic Approach to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Veronika Gold, MFT

7. Relational Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Shirley Bar Dvir, MFT & Jacki Hull, MFT

8. Coming Home: Psychedelics, Symbolic Images, and the Innate Intelligence of the Psyche, Jason Butler, PhD & Evan Sola, PsyD

9. The Mystery of the Unconscious: Integrating Non-Ordinary States in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Karen Peoples, PhD

10. Invoking the Numinous: Ritual, Medicine, and Magic in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Shanna Butler, PhD & Camara Rajabari, MFT

11. Psychedelic-Assisted Internal Family Systems Therapy, Robert Grant, MD

12. Music in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Eric Sienknecht, PsyD

13. Psychedelic-Assisted Group Therapy, Chris Stauffer, MD & Brian Anderson, MD

14. The Upside of Coming Down: The Opportunities and Challenges of Psychedelic Integration, Harvey Schwartz, PhD & Jessica Katzman, PsyD