The Role of Psychoanalysis in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy

Despite ongoing research, gradual legalization, and current legal use of medicines such as ketamine as adjunctive psychotherapeutic agents, psychoanalysis has been largely absent from treatment protocols as well as post medicine integration work. This course is designed as an introduction to general principals of psychedelic therapy and their integration with relational analytic technique.

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5 Sessions: Mondays, Mar. 31; Apr. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2025
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM EDT

All courses will take place online. Seminar sessions are not recorded
Registration Deadline: March 30th, 2025

Registrants are expected to be able to attend all sessions in their entirety. Should your availability change, please contact the BPSI Team (team@bpsi.org) to remove your course registration and allow other interested participants to attend.

 

The Role of Psychoanalysis in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy

Despite ongoing research, gradual legalization, and current legal use of medicines such as ketamine as adjunctive psychotherapeutic agents, psychoanalysis has been largely absent from treatment protocols as well as post medicine integration work.  This course is designed as an introduction to general principals of psychedelic therapy and their integration with relational analytic technique. Using both experiential and didactic readings and clinical case presentations, we will examine how our skills as depth psychologists might enhance a psychedelic treatment; how a psychedelic treatment might enhance a psychoanalysis; and discuss what theoretical models and technical accommodations might maximize benefit and, as always, prevent harm to our patients. The primary focus of the course will be ketamine, as it is the only psychedelic medicine available legally in Massachusetts. Participants are welcome to bring in case material, so we can discuss who in our practices might benefit from this adjunctive work and why.


Instructors

Charis Cladouhos MD
is a faculty member of the adult and child psychoanalytic training programs at BPSI, an adjunct faculty member at Tufts University School of Medicine, and the developer of a wellness retreat program for physicians. She has completed level one training at MAPS for certification in MDMA assisted psychotherapy and is a certified ketamine assisted psychotherapy provider. She has a private practice in Newton, MA.


This course is open to beginning and intermediate licensed mental health clinicians and trainees on the path to licensure. Continuing Education credits are not offered for this course.

Scholarships are available for BPSI programs.

FEE:

$375 Course Fee
$50 Early Career Clinicians, Residents and Students
$350 Early Bird (available until 10/12/2023)  Use Code at Checkout: EB2025RPP

The fee is waived for BPSI Members, Trainees, and Partners. Scholarships are available upon request.

 

Explorations in Mind: Community Education at BPSI is made possible by the generous support of BPSI Members and friends. To make a gift to BPSI, contact Carole Nathan (cnathan@bpsi.org or 617-266-0953 x101),
go to www.bpsi.org, or send mail to BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459.

 
Program Administrator
Stephanie Cavanaugh: scavanaugh@bpsi.org

Program Chair
Holly Friedman Housman, LICSW: holly@housman.org
Natasha Lifton, PhD:
natashalifton@gmail.com
 
 
Event Cancellation Policies & Procedures
Any program participant requesting their individual program registration be canceled, must submit their request in writing via email to Stephanie Cavanaugh at scavanaugh@bpsi.org. For fee-based events, a request for cancellation (and refund using the original form of payment) must be received no later than 48 hours in advance of the event. Requests received later than 48 hours prior to the event will not be processed or accepted. All approved refunds are subject to a $10.00 administrative fee. If BPSI cancels an event, all registrants will receive a full refund of fees paid (no administration charge) no later than two business days following the scheduled date of the event, using the original form of payment.
 
Grievance Policy
Please address any questions or concerns about your experience at this or any program or event you have attended at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to the Program Chair(s), via the Senior Administrator/Continuing Education Administrator, BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459; team@bpsi.org; 617.266.0953.
 
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc., 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459, does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin or handicap in the admissions to or administration of its educational programs, scholarship programs or employment.