Healing trauma with psychedelics with Saj Razvi— Part 2
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics
11/19/19
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In this second part of Saj's story, he continues to explore the transformative healing of his MDMA session. Initially believing his therapy journey to be complete, his mother later develops terminal cancer and his attachment wounds reactivate. This impending loss leads him to seek even more advanced and difficult work with psilocybin and the support of two experienced guides in the Netherlands.
Saj further develops the idea that while psilocybin may well have major therapeutic potential, it is definitely not a starter psychedelic medicine, but rather one that requires significant psychological preparation and scaffolding in order to harness its power.
Saj Razvi and the Psychedelic Somatic Institute
https://www.psychedelicsomatic.org/
Dr. H
https://www.craigheacockmd.com
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Healing trauma with psychedelics with Saj Razvi— Part 1
November 5, 2019
•65m
This is the first of a two part very special interview with Saj Razvi, the Director of Education at Innate Path in Denver, CO. Saj weaves together his three fascinating perspectives— that of a nationally recognized trauma expert, his own personal story of early childhood neglect and how this shaped everything else to come, and finally his long journey of healing the deepest wound a person can have, eventually coming to MDMA and then psilocybin at the latter part of his therapy journey.
The episode starts with some foundational concepts in understanding trauma and its long term effects, then shifts to compare and contrast psychotherapy vs somatic therapies vs psychedelic assisted therapies (cannabis vs ketamine vs MDMA vs psilocybin). Part 1 ends with Saj's life-changing MDMA therapy session and beautifully describes how MDMA might help people break through the dissociative legacy of complex PTSD and attachment trauma.
Saj Razvi and the Psychedelic Somatic Institute
https://www.psychedelicsomatic.org/
Dr. H
https://www.craigheacockmd.com
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December 5, 2019
•10m
In this mini-episode Dr. H opens himself up for major audiophile shaming as he (reluctantly) reveals his three desert island albums. With this revelation complete, he then moves on to the challenge at hand-- which three psychiatric medications are at the top of the heap, combining efficacy, safety, and breadth of symptom coverage?
A hint-- they all start with the same letter. And they are all generic. And psychiatry would be greatly hamstrung without them.
Guesses??
Dr. H
https://www.craigheacockmd.com
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