Replay: Andrew Penn shares Five Things He's Learned about Psychedelic Science and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
“Like anything that’s new, there’s both hope and hype. But one thing is certain: What researchers are discovering across the country is that the same psychedelics that were once considered to be only dangerous recreational drugs are showing promise for treating mental health conditions when given in controlled, therapeutic settings.”
– Andrew Penn, Five Things I’ve Learned about Psychedelic Science and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Andrew Penn is a Clinical Professor in the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, where his teaching has received the UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award. As a researcher, he collaborates on studies of psilocybin and MDMA in the Translational Psychedelics Research (TrPR) lab at UCSF, and is currently working on a study using psilocybin to treat depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease. He also speaks broadly about the potential benefits of psychedelic assisted therapy well beyond the laboratory.
If you want to know more about the revolution already underway in this still emerging field, this class is for you.
In his class, Five Things I’ve Learned about Psychedelic Science and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, Andrew dives into the revolution already underway: psychedelic-assisted therapy – and details the resulting transformations coming soon to individuals and clinical professionals. He offers insights from his personal experience as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and professor, and details the promising results already being demonstrated when psychedelic compounds are integrated within psychotherapy. As he explains, psychedelic therapy is already challenging clinical approaches to mental health, and transforming clinical practices.
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