ALPS Speak | Podcast on Psychedelic Science

Federico Seragnoli Psychologue FSP et Coordinateur de ALPS 2021 et Cyril Petignat étudiant en psychologie et membre organisateur de ALPS reviennent sur la conférence ALPS d’octobre 2021 et nous partagent quelle va être la suite de l’aventure pour 2022

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This discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 31.10.2021.  

We discuss with a worldwide pioneer of psychedelic research, Dr. Franz X. Vollenweider. He is currently Co-Director of the Center for Psychiatric Research and Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of Zurich. He is also the Director of the Heffter Research Center Zürich for Consciousness Studies (HRC-ZH), which he founded in 1998 and incorporated in his research group.

Descending the Mountain - a film exploring psilocybin and the nature of consciousness

For more info on Franz X. Vollenweider's research, check out the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Zurich. 

This discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 31.10.2021.

Nicolas Bertholet is a MD, specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (FMH); specialist in Prevention and Public Health (FMH) at Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (Unil)

Jeremy Narby is an anthropologist who has worked for the last 31 years raising funds and advocating for indigenous Amazonian initiatives. He has also written several books, including "The cosmic serpent: DNA and the origins of knowledge" and "Intelligence in nature".

This conference was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 29.10.2021.

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Abstract:

Psychedelic science and the knowledge of indigenous Amazonian people: a true science of ayahuasca calls for a new kind of research

Scientists and researchers have recently become interested in the therapeutic potential of the Amazonian plant brew ayahuasca. But administering this powerful hallucinogenic cocktail requires considerable know-how and finesse. Indigenous Amazonian people have long used the brew and therefore have expertise in the matter. In their view, ayahuasca works first and foremost as a purge; and the brew’s efficacy depends on icaros (curative songs), which have healing power, and on dietas (preparatory diets), which consist in refraining from certain foods and behaviors, and which can fine-tune a person’s capacity to benefit from the brew. A true science of ayahuasca calls for a new kind of research – one that opens up to another way of knowing, and draws out its consequences, without seeking to prove it or disprove it; one that questions its own presuppositions.

This discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 30.10.2021.

Gregor Hasler, M.D. was born in Basel, Switzerland. He is a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Dr. Hasler is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is the president of the Swiss Society for Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry and president of the Swiss Society for Bipolar Disorder.

This discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 30.10.2021.

Peter Gasser DR. MD is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, working in his own practice in Solothurn, Switzerland. He was trained in psychodynamic methods as well as in psychedelic therapy. He has been a member of the Swiss Medical Society for Psycholytic Therapy (SAePT) since 1992 and its president since 1996. After 2007, he conducted two studies on LSD-assisted therapy in patients with anxiety due to life-threatening illnesses. Since 2014, he has held individual licences from the Swiss Government Office for Public Health (BAG) for therapy with mind-altering substances.Hi

Peter's talk at the conference was on "The psychedelic renaissance and thereafter"

Since the end of the last century the research with mind altering drugs started again after a long halt of about 30 years. In countries like the United States, Great Britain and Switzerland different research groups started scientific projects in phase 1 (effects in healthy volunteers) or phase 2 (safety and efficacy in diagnostic groups) drug research protocols.

The growing attention and presence in the media led to the highly symbolic labelling of the “Psychedelic Renaissance” after 2010. Today the acceptance and curiosity for these fascinating substances that can “change your mind” (like stated in the bestselling book of Michael Pollan) or “reveal your soul” (translation for “psychedelic”) or let you feel connected to the universe, has reached academic faculties and pharmaceutical companies.

This development contains possibilities and challenges. What do we have to face after the Psychedelic Renaissance? Psychedelic Humanism, Psychedelic Reformation or Psychedelic Conquest?

Jeremy Narby est un anthropologue qui travaille depuis 31 ans à défendre les initiatives indigènes amazoniennes. Il a également écrit plusieurs livres, dont Le serpent cosmique. Il vient de sortir un nouveau livre Deux Plantes enseignantes: Le Tabac & l'Ayahuasca 

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Cette discussion a été enregistrée à la Alps Conférence 2021 à Lausanne en Suisse le vendredi 29.10.2021.  Pour plus d'info sur la Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube

Vincent Verroust est doctorant en histoire des sciences en France et consultant à l'hôpital Paul Brousse pour la reprise des essais cliniques sur les substances contrôlées. Il est également enseignant et membre fondateur de la société française de psychédélisme. 

Cette discussion fait suite à sa conférence en anglais "Will you give me again some of these mushrooms, doctor? - the experiments of Heim and Thévenard on healthy volunteers, Paris, 1959. 

Le professeur Roger Heim (1900 - 1979) a été invité par les Wasson à participer à une étude multidisciplinaire sur les champignons divinatoires mexicains, redécouverts au début des années 50. Après avoir mené des expériences sur lui-même, il a travaillé sur un film documentaire au sujet des champignons hallucinogènes à la fin des années 50, en collaboration avec le Dr Thévenard de l'Institut Pasteur. Vincent Verroust a retrouvé le film et a projeté les expériences menées sur des volontaires sains qui ont accepté de consommer du Psilocybes mexicana devant une caméra, à Paris, en 1959, avec un suivi quatre ans plus tard. Ces séquences filmées nous ont illustré la diversité des réactions psychologiques aux champignons psilocybines. 

This interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 29.10.2021. 

The discussion is with Peter Oehen, MD, Psychiatrist at University of Basel, SÄPT member, Head researcher for the Swiss MAPS program following his presentation on "Substance-Assisted Psychotherapy with MDMA and LSD: Working with a group therapy model"- 

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