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Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers

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The psychedelic renaissance is here! Join Dr. Steve Thayer, Dr. Joe Flanders, and Dr. Reid Robison, and special guests as they explore the frontiers of psychedelic medicine and what it takes to cultivate a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Our hosts draw from their extensive knowledge and experience with psychedelic therapy research and treatment to discuss the science, practice, and art of psychedelic healing. If you are a helping professional, therapist, clinician, guide, healer, psychedelic enthusiast, or simply curious about mental, physical, and spiritual health, this is the podcast for you!

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The psychedelic renaissance is here! Join Dr. Steve Thayer, Dr. Joe Flanders, and Dr. Reid Robison, and special guests as they explore the frontiers of psychedelic medicine and what it takes to cultivate a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Our hosts draw from their extensive knowledge and experience with psychedelic therapy research and treatment to discuss the science, practice, and art of psychedelic healing. If you are a helping professional, therapist, clinician, guide, healer, psychedelic enthusiast, or simply curious about mental, physical, and spiritual health, this is the podcast for you!

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Episodes

East Forest on the power of music in psychedelic therapy

3/28/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr Reid Robison, Numinus CEO Payton Nyquvest, and East Forest are at SXSW, and talk about the many facets of music and the importance it plays in the psychedelic therapy process. (2:19) SXSW psychedelic track and panel recap (9:37) East Forest music in the yoga community and psychedelic origins (13:51) Origin of East Forest (27:21) Recording and visiting with Ram Dass (33:28) Payton on seeking and finding (38:30) Music as a...

Duration:01:05:18

Bad trip: Can psychedelic experiences be traumatic?

3/21/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss "bad trips". They talk about the difference between bad trips and challenging experiences; the factors during prep, facilitation, and integration that can prevent bad trips or turn them into useful challenging experiences; the prevalence of triggered psychosis and HPPD among psychedelic users; how to pick the right psychedelic therapist/guide/facilitator; and much more. (1:35) Are bad...

Duration:01:17:19

Paradoxes, cognitive dissonance, and the smile of unbearable compassion

3/14/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison try to cope with the paradoxes of life. They give a trip report on a recent breathwork session, discuss why people struggle with paradoxes, explain how the drive to reduce cognitive dissonance can lead to dysfunction, explore how mindful acceptance of all that we are helps us cope with paradoxes, and much more. (1:35) Breathwork trip report (8:03) What are chakras? (11:04) 7 Sacred Spaces...

Duration:00:50:26

Non-therapy uses for psychedelics with Hannah Cross, LCSW

3/7/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined Hannah Cross, LCSW to discuss the non-therapy, non-medical uses of psychedelics. Hannah is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, reiki master, yoga teacher, and all-around awesome person. (1:40) Intro to the topic and to Hannah (3:41) What does "processing" mean? (5:29) Discoveries and insights attributable to psychedelics (6:56) Timothy Leary's first LSD trip and...

Duration:00:49:11

Legal status of psychedelic therapy: 2023 status update

2/28/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the current legal status of psychedelic therapy in the US and other countries and the various challenges related to legalization and/or decriminalization of psychedelics. (1:50) Legalization vs decriminalization of psychedelics (3:30) The War on Drugs (6:37) Psychedelics Today Podcast episode with Kathryn L. Tucker, JD and the difference between federal and state...

Duration:00:54:33

Crisis of faith: How to survive religious faith deconstruction

2/21/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss how to navigate a crisis of religious faith. (2:30) Why it's hard to talk about religious belief (5:10) The "nones" and the secularization of the West (8:52) What's at stake with a religious faith transition (13:57) The risk of your moral character being questioned (17:30) How to support a loved one who is going through a faith deconstruction (20:55) Thriving and Building...

Duration:00:59:36

Grit, resilience, and learning from failure

2/14/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss grit, resilience, and learning from failure. They explore the difference between growth and fixed mindsets, how attribution style affects resiliency, tips on how to reduce your fear of failure, and much more. (1:33) How Batman deals with failure (3:59) How our beliefs about failure affect how we cope with it (7:23) Explanatory/attribution styles and fixed vs growth mindsets (10:15)...

Duration:00:39:02

Who am I? Authenticity, honesty, and living your truth

2/7/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss authenticity. They talk about what it means to live one’s truth, the relationship between values and authenticity, what congruence has to do with it, why being authentic can be risky, and much more. (1:34) Les Miserables (4:28) What does it mean to be authentic? (6:46) Authenticity vs transparency, prosocial lies vs antisocial lies (9:58) Are Reid and Steve authentic on the...

Duration:00:46:53

Parenting, attachment, and not screwing up our kids

1/31/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss parenting. They talk about how difficult parenting is, how parenting styles affect childhood and later adult attachment styles, being an emotion coach as a parent, how to raise resilient kids, genetics, and much more. (1:33) Parenting is hard (6:20) Spanking (7:00) Good Inside, by Dr. Becky Kennedy and being "home base" for your child (10:03) The value of consistency (11:55)...

Duration:00:55:32

What's love got to do with it?

1/25/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the many facets of love. They explore what love is, how it’s extended and received, the concept of unconditional positive regard, why it’s so important to feel seen and understood, the role feelings of love play in psychedelic medicine…and much more. (1:22) The core need of being seen (3:29) Unconditional positive regard and Carl Rogers (4:58) The first duty of love is to...

Duration:00:33:10

The shadow side of psychedelic therapy with Dr. Chantelle Thomas

1/17/2023
In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer, Dr. Reid Robison, and Dr. Joe Flanders welcome clinical psychologist, clinical trial researcher, and psychedelic therapist, Dr. Chantelle Thomas to the show for an important conversation about the shadow side of psychedelic therapy. They discuss how therapists harm their clients, the high bar of competence and self-awareness that psychedelic therapists need to clear in order to do this work, the limitations and...

Duration:01:41:59

New Year's intentions, discipline, self-compassion, and the middle way

1/10/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss setting intentions for the new year. They explore how to set values-based intentions vs goals, the struggle of walking the middle path between ambition and contentment, the value of journaling, and much more. (2:00) New Year's resolutions and how our values change (3:41) Essentialism by Greg McKeown and setting an essential intent for the year (4:57) The backlash against "hustle...

Duration:00:46:17

What you need to know about ketamine-assisted therapy

1/3/2023
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss what you need to know about ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. (1:43) Ram Dass's family dinner (4:27) What is ketamine? (7:05) What does ketamine feel like? (11:29) Ketamine as a psychotomimetic (12:53) Ego dissociation as a therapy (14:54) The limitations of ketamine therapy (16:00) The different approaches to ketamine therapy (23:10) Ketamine dosing strategies (27:05)...

Duration:00:45:24

A good death, living well, and psychedelic therapy in palliative care with Anthony Back, M.D.

12/27/2022
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Joe Flanders interviews Dr. Anthony Back, M.D. Dr. Back is a co-founder of VitalTalk, a national nonprofit that provides innovative, interactive clinician and faculty development courses to improve communication skills on an individual and institutional level. Dr. Back is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Back earned his MD at Harvard...

Duration:01:12:44

Manifesting, the placebo effect, and how beliefs shape your life

12/20/2022
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the power of belief, the placebo effect, manifesting and the law of attraction, and how these things are relevant for psychedelic-assisted therapy and life. (0:52) Childhood fears and scary movies (4:00) The conflict between rational thought and felt sense (5:08) Why do people believe what they believe? (7:22) How beliefs are related to mental illness (9:45) Cognitive biases and...

Duration:00:49:46

Control vs surrender in psychedelic therapy and in life

12/13/2022
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the paradox of control and surrender in psychedelic assisted therapy and in life. (1:45) A poem about control vs surrender written by an AI chat bot (4:24) The Serenity Prayer (5:50) Avoidance and our attachments to control are at the root of many types of suffering (9:29) Allowing and the wisdom to know when to stop (13:29) Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach (14:19) Acceptance,...

Duration:00:50:51

Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy with Saj Razvi

12/6/2022
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Joe Flanders interviews Saj Razvi. Saj is the Director of Education at the Psychedelic Somatic Institute (PSI) and one of the primary developers of the Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) modality. He is a psychotherapist and former clinical researcher in the MAPS Phase 2 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. He is faculty at Mind Medicine Australia and taught PTSD studies at the University of Denver. Learn...

Duration:01:53:26

How to set boundaries for better relationships and better mental health

11/29/2022
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss how to set healthy boundaries so your relationships can be energizing and your mental health can flourish. (2:00) Boundaries are important in many facets of life (4:00) Our basic need for belonging (4:40) Transcend, by Scott Barry Kaufman (7:21) Don't take on what isn't yours (10:25) Setting boundaries isn't the same as selfishness (13:55) Boundaries allow you to be...

Duration:00:56:29

Self-care strategies for the psychedelic therapist

11/22/2022
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss self-care strategies for the psychedelic therapist. (1:30) Self-care vs self-indulgence (3:02) Why is self-care a necessity for therapists (6:05) The therapist is an important part of the setting (8:45) Managing the long sessions typical of psychedelic therapy sessions (11:40) How much of this work can a therapist handle? (13:18) Staying attuned when the client is still and...

Duration:00:42:50

Music as medicine

11/15/2022
On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer, Dr. Reid Robison, and Dr. Joe Flanders discuss the healing power of music. They share their personal journeys with and connections to music, childhood piano lessons, the powerful effect music has on emotion, how they use music in psychedelic therapy, and much, much more. (1:55) Reid's music journey (4:00) Steve's music journey (7:05) Joe's music journey (10:00) Why we pair music with psychedelic...

Duration:00:55:44

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