Michael DeMarco, PhD - Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family Therapy (Page 2)

ketamine

Spotlight: Understanding the Experience of Ketamine-Assisted Therapy and the Importance of Context (Stockwell, et al, 2025) Comprender la experiencia de la terapia asistida por ketamina y la importancia del contexto

"comfort in the setting supported participants to let go and was facilitated by learning about the therapist's personal experiences, a strong therapeutic alliance, and feeling safe...music also influenced the experience, facilitating a spiritual journey guiding the experience."

Spotlight: Affirmations inspired by "The Ethical Slut"

sex therapy

Spotlight: Rethinking Infidelity... a talk for anyone who has ever loved -- Esther Perel (2015)

"we still seem to be lured by the power of the forbidden"

ketamine-assisted psychotherapy

Psychedelics in Palliative Care, Marcia Glass, Ed., Oxford University Press

with contributions by Psychedelic Institute fellows, Michael DeMarco, PhD and Thaís Salles Araujo, MD on ketamine, psilocybin mushrooms in palliative care

Investigación: Ketaminas Efectos antidepresivos Rapid enmaunados Brain-Wide

El despliegue de un análisis de fluctuación cerebral a escala de mesoscale desvela la compleja orquestación neuronal multirregional subyacente a efectos antidepresivos rápidos de la ketamina, un plan para la innovación terapéutica futura...

at home ketamine therapy

Spotlight: Ketamine’s Rapid Antidepressant Effects Mapped Brain-Wide + μ-opioid receptor?

"The deployment of mesoscale brain-wide fluctuation analysis unveils the complex, multiregional neural orchestration underlying ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects, a blueprint for future therapeutic innovation... insights gained from this research hold transformative promise..."

Spotlight: FKA Twigs & Minnie Driver read letters from the Ask Polly column about the secret fury of nice women

And important backstory from author Heather Havrilesky of https://www.ask-polly.com/

Spotlight: "What Are Thoughts? Exploring the Mystery of the Mind"

"The nature of thought remains one of philosophy’s greatest mysteries, with deep implications for neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Two main theories compete: materialism, which sees thoughts as brain states, and dualism, which holds that thoughts are non-physical entities."

Spotlight: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Sustain the Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial (Wilkinson, et al, 2021)

"This proof-of-concept study provides preliminary data indicating that CBT may sustain the antidepressant effects of ketamine in TRD."

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Domestic violence (also referred to as intimate partner violence (IPV), dating abuse, or relationship abuse) is a pattern of behaviors used by one partner to maintain power and control over another partner in an intimate relationship. If you feel unsafe in your relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline

Spotlight: "Cognitive distortions in patients with social anxiety disorder: Comparison of a clinical group and healthy controls" (Kuru, et al, 2021)

"Patients with SAD had more cognitive distortions compared with the healthy controls. The comorbid depressive symptoms in SAD had effects on ‘mental filter, overgeneralization and personalization’ in social situations, and there was no specific cognitive distortion without depression."

Spotlight "Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson’s Liberating Masturbation" (Sutton, 2024)

"Melding sexology, aesthetics, technology, and an unabashed libidinal energy, Dodson advocates for collective, erotic pedagogy as a source of knowledge production. In doing so, her work carves out a space for pleasure and joy in the messiness of lived experience."