The California Institute of Integral Studies is offering a training program for medical professionals with an interest in psychedelic research and therapy. The program, which begins in the Spring of 2016, involves 180 hours of academic training with prominent faculty, many of whom are affiliated...
A documentary film titled A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin explores the use of psilocybin as a treatment for cancer patients. “The film presents an intimate look into the lives of several terminally ill cancer patients participating in the studies, and opens an intriguing discourse of...
The New Yorker magazine offers a detailed and insightful examination of Erowid, the online clearing house for information about psychoactive substances. Writer Emily Witt visits the rural California home of Earth and Fire Erowid, the couple behind the hugely successful web site that attracts a...
In “The Psychedelic Dante,” an article in the February 6, 2015 issue of The American Conservative, writer Rod Dreher discovers parallels between the psychedelic experience and Dante’s Divine Comedy. Dreher begins by noting significant results in current psychedelic science with references to Heffter-supported research by Roland...
The Wisconsin Public Radio show “Central Time” recently interviewed two members of the psychedelic research team at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. (See this blog post for more on the UW study.) Central Time host Veronica Rueckert spoke with Paul Hutson, the lead researcher,...
An article on the front page of today’s Wisconsin State Journal covers a a new research study on psilocybin at the University of Wisconsin. In UW Madison tunes in to “magic mushroom” medicine, writer David Wahlberg describes the work of researcher Paul Hutson and his...
An article by Heffter researcher Matthew Johnson and his colleagues is bringing international media attention to the promise of psychedelic therapy. “Psychedelic Medicine: A Reemerging Therapeutic Paradigm,” published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, reviews the use of psychedelics for treating serious disorders including anxiety, addiction,...
Blogger Andrew Penn continues his series on psychedelics with an entry about the challenges that face mental health professionals who study and work with these substances. In “Psychedelics: What to Tell Patients Today,” Penn discusses the problem of explaining psychedelic therapy to patients who may be...
The PsychCongress Network, a website devoted to news for mental health professionals, is featuring a series of articles on the use of psychedelics in psychotherapy. The most recent entry, “How Psychedelics May Be Used to Accelerate Psychotherapy,” covers research using psilocybin and MDMA for treating PTSD,...
New research by a team including Heffter board member Franz Vollenweider casts light on the well-known but little understood ability of psychedelics to produce spiritual experiences. The study, published in the journalPsychopharmacology, involved EEG recordings of 50 healthy volunteers who took a moderate dose of psilocybin....
