Pierre Bouchard is on the show to talk about somatic therapy, the traumatic roots of depression, and the role ketamine-assisted somatic psychotherapy can play in healing that trauma, and thus the depression it produces.

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• Somatic therapy vs traditional talk therapy
• The objectivity of sensation
• How somatic sensation can be used therapy
• We are all creatively organized to get love in the world
• How somatic therapy helps heal trauma
• Adding low-dose ketamine to somatic trauma therapy | ketamine therapy for depression
• How ketamine's dissociative effects assist in safely accessing trauma feeling
• Developmental trauma and the roots of depression
• Treating depression through healing developmental trauma
• Trauma, depression, and healing through relationship
• How many somatic sessions does it take to heal depression? (integration)
• The problems of the present industry of ketamine therapy for depression
• Therapists should experience ketamine before providing ketamine
• In the absence of somatic ketamine therapists, how can we get the help we need to make sense of our ketamine experiences
• It's never too late to have a good childhood

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