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Psychedelics Assist Psychotherapy

Psychedelics Assist Psychotherapy

About the Psychedelic Institute
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family Therapy offers support, training and practice in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to clinician and non-clinical members
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD
INSTITUTO PSICODÉLICO DE SALUD MENTAL Y TERAPIA FAMILIAR
Un centro de estudios en psicodelia que aboga por el estudio y la práctica seguros y legales de las experiencias de la medicina psicodélica y su aplicación a la salud mental y el bienestar | Uruguay
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD

INSTITUTO PSICODÉLICO DE SALUD MENTAL Y TERAPIA FAMILIAR Un centro de estudios en psicodelia que aboga por el estudio y la práctica seguros y legales de las experiencias de la medicina psicodélica y su aplicación a la salud mental y el bienestar | Uruguay

Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy — Rates, Referrals & Registration
Psychotherapy therapy, support, and case management via telehealth from the Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family Therapy
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD
Is ketamine a “psychedelic”?
Yes.
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD

Ketamine is used in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy

Psychedelic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: On Ketamine, Context, and Competencies in “Assisted-Psychotherapy”
There are many tools to help a psychotherapist help clients learn to speak the language of cognitive behavioral therapy, especially tools which may help facilitate therapeutic alliance, including, but not limited to telehealth.
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD
Psychedelic Therapy: Does the psychedelic experience matter?
Psychedelic medicines have been studied in the Western medical literature consistently for over 100 years, over 60 of which in the ongoing study and practice of racemic ketamine. Psychedelic experiences are described similarly and often felt as profoundly meaningful.
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD
Neural correlates and subjective experiences in meditation vs psychedelics, including ketamine (Preliminary Lit Review)
A preliminary, evolving review of the literature. (Ongoing Draft) | Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family Therapy
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD
Sublingual & Oral Ketamine Research: Efficacy, Dosage, and Treatment for Mental Health
Ongoing review of the literature related to safety and efficacy of ketamine and esketamine by mouth.
Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD
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Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family TherapyMichael DeMarco, PhD

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ketamine

Ketamine Sustains and Enhances the Protective Effects of a Ketogenic Diet Against Relapses in an Anorexia Mouse Model (Dong, et al, 2025)

"Ketamine sustains and boosts Ketogenic Diet benefits for > 10 days, supporting clinical findings that short-term KGD + KET may be an effective treatment for preventing anorexia nervosa relapses."
cognitive behavioral therapy

Change in the Neural Response to Auditory Deviance Following Cognitive Therapy for Hallucinations in Patients With Schizophrenia (Knott, et al, 2020)

"These findings of improved auditory information processing and symptom-response attributable to CBTv suggest potential clinical and functional benefits of psychotherapeutical approaches for patients with persistent AVHs."
cognitive behavioral therapy

Spotlight: Understanding the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A Study on Offenders (Saxena, et al, 2024)

"Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is well known for its effectiveness in addressing psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder, often used alongside medication."
at home ketamine

Spotlight: Ketamine Harm Reduction

Prevention & Treatment in Ketamine Use Disorder - When a medicine becomes a poison
oxycodone withdrawal

Spotlight: The effects of low-dose ketamine and (2R,6R)-Hydroxynorketamine on affective behaviors associated with protracted oxycodone withdrawal (Lehane, et al, 2025)

"These findings demonstrate the therapeutic potential of (2R,6R)-HNK and ketamine in alleviating affective symptoms of oxycodone withdrawal. "
ketamine

Naltrexone in the Treatment of Ketamine Use Disorders: A Case Report and Literature Review (Verma, et al, 2025)

"findings consistent w/ 2 prior reports - use of naltrexone in KUDs at the dosage of 50 mg/day successfully helped patients achieve abstinence... naltrexone reduces antidepressant effects of ketamine, indicating overlap between opioid system & ketamine's NMDA receptor activity. "
psilocybin research

Spotlight: Psilocybin during the postpartum period induces long-lasting adverse effects in both mothers and offspring (in mice)

"we show that both parous parents and their children may be uniquely vulnerable to psychedelic treatment during the postpartum period"
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