Emerging Treatment Options for Various Psychological Problems
Understand how psychological conditions that are complex and difficult to treat are meeting with new success. In particular, how the careful use of certain hormones, anesthetics and psychedelic substances are improving the lives of people with: treatment-resistant depression, post-traumatic stress disorders, anxiety about death & dying, addictions, and obsessive-compulsive rigidity.
In addition, you will learn about the importance of the proper therapeutic context in administering these substances as well as processing the experience afterwards. In the past, problems developed when certain "gurus" advocated for the unsupervised use of drugs such as LSD and natural substances with psychedelic effects such as psilocybin or blue mushrooms. Now, we understand how important the right setting and guidance can be for undertaking an experience within your mind that can persist for 4-6 hours or more. Afterwards, we need to develop insights about what occurred during "the trip" and how such new insights can inform our choices and habits in the future. The careful administration and supervision of these powerful substances must be emphasized.
Get more clarity regarding what's happening inside the human brain during these interventions (or "trips"). Understand the power of our Default Mode Network (DMN) and how it's top-down structure can prevent other structures in the brain from communicating. When undergoing an experience with MDMA or magic mushrooms, the DMN relaxes to enable unique sensory experiences to emerge and inform our lives. Join me in gaining more insights about these emerging therapeutic options.Â
Understand the therapeutic role that psychedelics can play in mental health
Appreciate how MDMA or psilocybin can help us heal from psychological trauma
Learn how our brains can get relief from PTSD, intractable depression, OCD and anxiety.
12 Lectures
I have a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago and I'm a full-time faculty member in the Psychology Department at a large state university in California. I have taught at the college level for more than 20 years. I teach both in-person and online. Currently, I lecture on Abnormal Psychology, Critical Thinking, and the Field Placement Courses on...
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Very informative lectures
Given my situation of having a partner who is deep into experiencing Anxiety and OCD the course was particularly relevant and provided me with excellent insight into brain processes associated with people experiencing similar conditions
very nice woman and usefull informations :)
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Great course and very detail
Well done!!! Excellent up-to-date insights on psychedelic therapies! Thanks for sharing this great knowledge. I would definitely recommend my spouse to watch these videos since he has smoking addiction and has difficulty stopping it.
Overall, the lectures were very informative. Dr. Stohs always provide very clear and detailed information. The materials were very well presented and organized. This new insight on psychedelics is very interesting. The different treatments success rates still proves that there are still improvements to make for future cases.
I loved this course because you get to hear and physically see how the professor is interested on the topic. I learned so much from this course and loved how interested she was in the topic.
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Tanya M. C.
A lot of important information that will be useful in my career path.