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DESCRIPTION:Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life\n\nBy Dr. Nicolas Langlitz\
 , MD\, PhD\, Professor of Anthropology\, The New School for Social Researc
 h.\n\nThis will be a HYBRID EVENT\n\nIn-person location: Room 138\, Ludmer
  Building\, 1033 Pine Av West. Montreal\n\nRegistration required for remot
 e attendance. ZOOM registration\, click HERE\n\nAbstract: \n\nIn the histo
 rical context of a crisis in biological psychiatry\, psychedelic drugs pai
 red with psychotherapy are globally re-emerging in research clinics as a p
 otential transdiagnostic therapy for treating mood disorders\, addictions\
 , and other forms of psychological distress. The treatments are poised to 
 soon shift from clinical trials to widespread service delivery in places l
 ike Australia\, North America\, and Europe\, which has prompted ethical qu
 estions by social scientists and bioethicists. Taking a broader view\, we 
 argue that the ethics of psychedelic therapy concerns not simply how psych
 otherapies are different when paired with psychedelic drugs\, but how diff
 erent kinds of psychedelic therapy shape and are shaped by different value
 s\, norms\, and metaphysical commitments that amount to different forms of
  life. Drawing from the published literature and interviews with seven psy
 chedelic therapists working in clinical trials in the United States\, Germ
 any\, Switzerland\, and Australia\, this talk opens the black box of the t
 reatments to consider the values and informal debates currently animating 
 the therapies. Considering questions of patient autonomy\, mechanisms of t
 herapeutic action\, and which therapies are best suited to pair with psych
 edelic substances\, we examine the ethics of psychedelic therapy as a form
  of life. To bring this out in fuller relief\, we conclude by comparing an
 d contrasting this emergent form of life with ayahuasca use in Amazonian s
 hamanism.\n	\n	Bio note: \n	Nicolas Langlitz\, a medical doctor by training\,
  is an anthropologist and historian of science and medicine who uses ethno
 graphic fieldwork to think through philosophical questions. He wrote three
  books: Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanes
 e\, European\, and American Cultural Primatologists (2020)\, Neuropsychede
 lia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain (2
 012)\, and Die Zeit der Psychoanalyse: Lacan und das Problem der Sitzungsd
 auer (2005). He is Professor of Anthropology and director of the Psychedel
 ic Humanities Lab at The New School for Social Research in New York.\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry & the Culture Mind 
 and Brain Speaker Series 
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