What We’re Reading

The Rise of Psychedelic Psychotherapy - Nature - 28 January 2021

Traumatic stress and the autonomic brain‐gut connection in development: Polyvagal Theory as an integrative framework for psychosocial and gastrointestinal pathology

Emotional breakthrough and psychedelics: Validation of the Emotional Breakthrough Inventory

Psychedelic Research Finds Ego Exists In The Default Mode Network

Meditation leads to reduced default mode network activity beyond an active task

Understanding the Default Mode Network

Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics

Psychedelic drug MDMA may reawaken 'critical period' in brain to help treat PTSD

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible - Science and Non-duality

Psychiatric Resources:

Depression, Too, Is a Thing with Feathers - by Andrew Solomon.   Full Text

American Psychiatric Association.  Learn More About Mental Health

Dissecting melancholia with evidence based biomarker tools (Current Psychiatry). 

The Power of Fantasy in a Relationship, Elizabeth Bernstein (WSJ 8/8/16). 

Family Therapy Resources:

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Status and Challenges.  Article

Medical Decision Making Resources:

Informed Medical Decision Making.  

Ketamine Therapy:

Wired: KETAMINE STIRS UP HOPE—AND CONTROVERSY—AS A DEPRESSION DRUG

Former NIMH Director Thomas Insel's Perspective on Ketamine

The Transformative Power of Ketamine: Psychedelic States and a Personal History of Transformation Philip E. Wolfson Center for Transformational Psychotherapy San Francisco and San Anselmo, CA, USA

The Ketamine Research Foundation

The Ketamine Training Institute (for Providers)