A Brave New Mind - Psychedelic Medicine in Aotearoa

Dr Will Evans and Susi Maclean
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A Brave New Mind - Psychedelic Medicine in Aotearoa

Psychedelic medicine is on its way to Aotearoa, and we're taking you on the journey. Join us each week as we ask the big questions, and ponder the potentials and pitfalls of this burgeoning field with local scientists and researchers, the big overseas names in the field, Kiwi clinicians, those gearing up to take therapeutic psychedelics into the mainstream, and more.

  1. 12/24/2020

    Dr BJ Miller - On Living and Dying Well

    We wrap up season 1 back where we started, with Dr BJ Miller, one of the world's leading voices in palliative care. The connection between psychedelics and his field is a strong one, with a lot of the current research focused on easing suffering at the end of life. Amongst other things, BJ and Will talk about how they think about their own deaths, their visions for the future of their profession, the need for more humanity in medicine and where spirituality fits, and BJ's new online palliativ...

    1h 15m

  2. 12/15/2020

    Dr Will Evans - the state of the psychedelic nation

    While we count down to the end of the year and the end of Season One, we thought it was timely to take stock of the emerging field of psychedelic medicine in New Zealand.In this episode, Will covers off the country's first psychedelic medicine conference, the momentum that's building in the research community, what's happening with the only psychedelic that's legal here for therapy - ketamine - and what lies ahead. Be sure to tune in next week as we wrap up the season the way we started ...

    30 min

  3. 12/09/2020

    Dr Ros Watts - beyond the hype of psychedelics

    Psychologist Dr Rosalind Watts is best known for her work at Imperial College London where she has done pioneering work in using psilocybin for depression.More recently, she became Clinical Director at Synthesis Retreats, an organisation that offers medically supervised psychedelic retreats in Amsterdam.Having had experience working with psychedelics in both research and commercial settings, Ros brings a unique perspective to the conversation. Amongst other things In this epis...

    58 min

  4. 12/01/2020

    Dr Marg Ross - Kicking off Australia's psychedelic medicine revolution

    Dr Marg Ross is a senior psychologist working in Palliative Care at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, and the clinical lead in Australia’s first ever psychedelic medicine trial, which is looking at psilocybin and psychotherapy for end of life depression and anxiety.Marg had watched what was going on in the Northern Hemisphere with interest and waited for somebody to get a study off the ground in Australia before deciding nothing was going to happen in a hurry - so she’d better do it her...

    1h 2m

  5. 11/25/2020

    Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles - transforming lives one infusion at a time

    Dr Steven Mandel and his son, Sam, run Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles - one of the first infusion clinics in the United States.At KCLA they do ketamine infusions all day, every day, and they have developed their own regimen of personalised dosing that takes patients to optimal 'altitude' to change their minds, as well as their brains. The Mandels are firm believers in the value of stand alone ketamine infusions, even without psychotherapy, and say they've seen near-miraculous and lastin...

    45 min

  6. 11/18/2020

    Prof David Nutt - Calling out the lies

    Professor David Nutt is the Chair of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and a world-leading psychedelic researcher. He's a strong advocate for a rational, evidence based approach to psychedelics, and continues to, in his own words, 'call out the lies' about them, wherever he can. David is currently Chair of DrugScience and President of the European Brain Council, has edited the Journal of Psychopharmacology for over two decades and acts as the psychiatry drugs advi...

    51 min

  7. 11/10/2020

    Saj Razvi - the promises and perils of psychedelic therapy

    Saj Razvi has been involved in psychedelic therapy from almost every angle - as a researcher in the MAPS MDMA trials, as a psychotherapist, and now as a trainer of others looking to incorporate psychedelics into their practice. Saj believes that psychedelics don't necessarily fit with traditional therapy, and so has created a modality designed specifically for work with them.He's a passionate advocate for these medicines, but also knows from first hand experience that things can go horribly w...

    43 min

  8. 11/05/2020

    Dr Geoff Noller –institutional fear and loathing and psychedelics

    Dr Geoff Noller is a medical anthropologist specialising in psychotropic drug research, with an emphasis on drug use as a cultural practice.We talked with Geoff about his work looking at kiwi attitudes to cannabis use, the nature of consciousness and reality, fears and prejudices around mind altering states and substances, and his experiences as principal investigator on an ibogaine study for opioid dependence. Our interview took place on the morning of the cannabis referendum decision – and ...

    45 min
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Psychedelic medicine is on its way to Aotearoa, and we're taking you on the journey. Join us each week as we ask the big questions, and ponder the potentials and pitfalls of this burgeoning field with local scientists and researchers, the big overseas names in the field, Kiwi clinicians, those gearing up to take therapeutic psychedelics into the mainstream, and more.

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