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Title: Trauma, Psychedelics, and Psychoanalysis

Presenter: Jeffrey Guss, M.D. & Lawrence Fischman, M.D.

Date/Time: Saturday, April 27, 2024 9:00 am - 3:30 pm CENTRAL TIME

Location: Virtual via Zoom from Dallas, TX

Credit Hours: 6 credit hours

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Description: 

Part 1: A Brief History of Psychedelic Psychoanalytic Therapy, and an Introduction to Psychedelic Phenomenology, presented by Jeffrey Guss, MD

The talk will begin with a brief review of the history of psychedelic psychoanalytic treatment in the United States and Europe. Following this, an introduction to psychedelic phenomenology from a psychoanalytic perspective will be offered, focusing on 1) attachment theory and psychedelic therapy, and 2) drug-induced drug ego solution (DIED). The relevance of these two phenomena for psychotherapy will be explored.

Part 2: My Bad, You Got This: Witnessing and therapeutic attitude in the psychedelic and psychoanalytic approaches to trauma, presented by Lawrence Fischman, MD

The MAPS sponsored MDMA-assisted therapy protocol is predicated on a synergy between drug action and the participant’s inner healing intelligence. A synergy between the therapist’s commitment to this treatment framework and the medication’s enhancement of trust enables people with PTSD to engage the therapist as a kind of witness. I discuss parallels between the therapeutic attitude implied in the inner healing intelligence model and that of the psychoanalyst in the resolution of dissociative enactment. In both settings, the therapist’s willingness to acknowledge her technical limitations or failings, coupled with a conviction that the participant/patient’s primary need in processing trauma is to feel witnessed, facilitates the integration of dissociated experience.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this presentation, the attendee will be able to:

Describe the difference between psycholytic therapy and psychedelic therapy.

Describe the contributions of Hanscarl Leuner, Albert Hoffman and Stanislav Grof to the history of psychedelic psychoanalysis.

Have a practical understanding of “Drug-Induced Ego Dissolution” and explain its connection to the emergence of primary process

Explain how attachment theory offers a useful model for understanding the role of the therapist in psychedelic therapy 

Describe the major tenets of the MDMA assisted therapy protocol as described in the MAPS MDMA-assisted therapy protocol.

Define and critique the term “inner healing intelligence“ as used in the MAPS MDMA-assisted therapy protocol. 

To list the modifications Ferenczi introduced to Freudian psychoanalytic technique

To describe the differential effects on feeling witnessed between: a) listening with an aim of recognition, and b) listening with an aim of interpretation, affirmation, admiration, sympathy, or exoneration

Reference:

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*Early Career Clinicians in their First Year of Practice and Residents:

     Please contact DPC Admin. to register for this event: monique@dalpsa.org

Payment in advance is required at the time of Registration. 

Registration is REQUIRED and CLOSES at 4:30 PM Central Time on April 26, 2024.