Harvey Schwartz, PhD talks with Julian Royce about trauma, PTSD, healing, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, and the importance of psychedelic medicine and his passion for training the next generation of psychedelic assisted therapists.
Links for Harvey Schwartz:
https://www.polarisinsight.com
Harvey Schwartz, PhD has written numerous books & articles, including and the Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep and Dialogues with Forgotten Voices and co-authoring Integral Psychedelic Therapy.
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Partial List of Topics in chronological order:
- MAPS
- Lykos - a new organization
- KAP for acute suicidality
- Career before his interest in Psychedelic medicine
- How PTSD became first recognized as a diagnosis in 1980
- How millions of people suffering from trauma were misdiagnosed and shamed and blamed
- Judith Herman's book Trauma and Recovery
- The challenge of healing internalized negative beliefs, especially as part of PTSD.
- Children before 8-10 yrs old automatically blame themselves because of their level of cognitive development.
- The power of Psychedelic medicine to heal and to connect what has been disconnected and break apart the negative belief systems
- Most of our medicines are suppressive in nature
- Scott Shannon's paper on how Ketamine assisted therapy is a paradigm shift
- Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex which manages symptoms versus curing the root causes
- The way millions of people have been treated as objects by doctors and psychiatrists - the essence of humanity has not been fully taken into account
- How 4 million people had done LSD by 1969
- Ways people are harmed in the mental health system
- Psychologists that lose their license
- No one should do this work of therapy alone.
- Be Held while Holding
- 3 types of Therapeutic Touch:
- Safety touch - mandatory
- Supportive Touch
- Therapeutic Touch - more complicated - for release work.
- The need for touch in psychedelic assisted therapy. It is important to talk about this before hand - and have the agreement that clients cannot change their mind about it during session, it needs to be decided on before hand.
- How Disassociation is a huge spectrum.
- Psychedelic based disassociation
- Dissociation is always Positive.
- We need Dharma not Dogma.
- The growing issue of Tribalism in our culture and the shadow side of human nature to form in and out groups
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