Psychedemia 2022 Speakers

Outstanding Presentations

  • Uma Chatterjee

    MDMA-AT, PTSD, & Comorbid OCD: Exploring the potential effects of 3,4-Methyledioxymethamphetamine assisted therapy for PTSD on comorbid OCD.

  • Rebecca Krisel

    Refreshing the Psychedelic Policy Image: A News and Social Media Sentiment Analysis of the Psychedelic Renaissance.

  • Sarah Gorban

    The Microbiome: Psychedelics Beyond the Brain, A Call to Research.

  • Emily Cribas

    A gut feeling: How our intestinal cellular network could bidirectionally shape psychedelics and their therapeutic effects.

  • Tahlia Harrison

    Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process.

  • Robert A. Villa

    Toad Smoke: (Un)natural History of Incilius alvarius, the Sonoran Desert Toad.

  • Michael V. Kramer

    Notes toward a Phenomenological Philosophy of Psychedelics.

Keynote Speakers

  • Alicia Danforth

    Characters vs Character: Why Truth and Norming Matter in Psychedelics.

  • James Peter Davies

    A Psychedelic Revolution? No, just more of the same. A socio-political critique.

  • William Leonard Pickard

  • Yarelix Estrada

    Psychedelics, Harm Reduction and Resistance

Panelists

  • Adam Levin

    Perceptions of Psychoactive Drugs among Psychiatrists in the United States: The Impact of National Drug Policy.

  • Alan K. Davis

    Psilocybin therapy for people with depression: Clinical trial outcomes and case reports.

  • Alyssa Gursky

    Capturing the Ineffable: Integrating Art Therapy into Psychedelic Therapy.

  • Ana Flecha

    Choreographing re-membrance: The Santo Daime bailado and epistemologies of dance in the context of psychedelic science.

  • Austin Haigler

    Psychedelic Studies: Towards a Nascent Field of Inquiry.

  • Brian Pace

    From on High: Right-Wing Psychedelia and Mystic Authoritarianism.

  • Carli Domenico

    SD alterations of sleep architecture and hippocampal activity during cortical slow wave sleep in resting rat.

  • Carsten Fisher

    Deep Roots: Unveiling the Impact of Systemic Racism in the Medicalization of Psychedelics with Critical Race Praxis.

  • Christopher C. Davoli

    Lived Experiences with Long-Term Psychedelic Therapy and Healing: What Patients Want Professionals to Know.

  • Emily K. Bloesch

    Beyond Consultation: A Working Group Approach to De-Siloing Psychedelics Studies.

  • Emma Stamm

    Acid Communism and Psychedelic Science in the Age of Digital Capitalism.

  • Guillermo Orbegoso

    Possible contributions of the Expressive Arts methodology to the reduction of risks associated with the use of psychedelic substances.

  • Hilary Agro

    Prohibitionist Realism: Scenes from the front lines of movements against drug prohibition.

  • Isla Weber

    Positive vs. negative context mediates the effects of psilocybin on acute anxiety circuit activation and long-term anxiety‑like behaviors in mice.

  • J. Christian Greer

    Between Stoned Apes & Space Stations: The Psychedelic Militants of the New Age Movement.

  • Jacob Green

    Hallucinations of the Afterlife during Dental and Surgical Anesthesia as a Challenge to How Mystical Experience is Defined in Psychedelic Therapy.

  • Jason Slot

    The first trip: origins of psilocybin on Earth.

  • José Manuel Rodríguez Arce

    Going beyond McKenna’s “stoned ape theory”: testing the Psychedelic Instrumentalization model of human evolution.

  • Kai River Blevins

    Suspending the Self: Psychedelics, Embodiment, and Minimal Subjectivity.

  • Logan Neitzke-Spruill

    Embodied Cognition and Psychedelics: Toward a Biocultural Understanding of Set, Setting, and Transformation.

  • Marty Otañez

    The Transnational Psychedelics Capitalist Class and Its Consequences for Anti-Capitalist Psychedelic Studies.

  • Matthew Baggott

    Lessons from San Francisco’s Summer of STP.

  • Meghan DellaCrosse

    “A sense of the bigger picture:” A qualitative analysis of follow-up interviews with people with bipolar disorder who self-reported psilocybin use.

  • Michael Lifschitz

    Cultivating relationships with invisible beings: From tulpas and tryptamines to speaking in tongues.

  • Michael V. Kramer

    Notes toward a Phenomenological Philosophy of Psychedelics.

  • Neşe Devenot

    Psychedelic Identity Shift: A Critical Approach to Set and Setting.

  • Parker Singleton

    Psychedelics flatten the brain’s energy landscape: insights from receptor-informed network control theory.

  • Paul Elias

    Critical Reflections on the ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’ and ‘Acid Communism’ from the perspective of Karl Marx’s Social Philosophy.

  • Rafaelle Lancelotta

    Considerations for Ethical Integration of Psychedelics in Healthcare.

  • Robert A. Villa

    Toad Smoke: (Un)natural History of Incilius alvarius, the Sonoran Desert Toad.

  • Shana Harris

    Traveling for Treatment: Accessing Psychedelics and Addiction Care in Mexico.

  • Stacey B. Armstrong

    Differences in attitudes and beliefs among social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists on psychedelic-assisted therapy.

  • Stephanie Schmitz

    An Introduction to the Psychoactive Substances Research Collection at the Purdue University Archives.

  • Tahlia Harrison

    Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process.

  • Trace Reddell

    Psychedelic Praxis: Integrating Transformational Experiences in the Liberal Arts Classroom.

  • Victoria Grace Litman

    A Tax Study of Entheogenic Religious Practices in America in 2022: Existing Structures and Future Possibilities (and Problems).

  • Vivek Shah

    Trip Anxiety: Heidegger’s Existential Analytic in the Phenomenology of Psychedelics.

  • Yitong Xin

    Psychedelic therapy for United States military Veterans: Prospective data from a clinical program in Mexico.

Flash Talks

  • Alexsandra Kovacevich

    Cases of reported improvement in anosmia following naturalistic use of classic psychedelics.

  • Connor J. Storck

    Psychedelic Hermeneutics.

  • Daniel J. Kruger

    Assessing Psychedelic Knowledge among Psychedelic Enthusiasts.

  • Dave Rojas

    Ketamine and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in a Low-income Ethnically Diverse Sample: A Phenomenological Study.

  • Dustin Theibert

    From Gilded Cages to Psychedelic Commons: Mending Patents for Open Science.

  • Jamarie Geller

    The Use of Psychedelics in Medicine: Are Future Providers, Allied Professionals, and Researchers Being Educated? A Survey Study.

  • JoJo Martis

    Selective Attention Differences across Altered States of Consciousness.

  • Joshua M. Ellow

    Clinical Social Workers and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies: A Qualitative Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Professional Response.

  • Katrina Dobson

    Behavioural Investigations of Psilocybin in Animals, A Scoping Review.

  • Nathan Sepeda

    The relationship between amygdala response and long-term antidepressant effects after psilocybin therapy.

  • Nicolas Glynos

    Naturalistic Psychedelic Use: A World Apart From Clinical Care.

  • Rebecca Krisel

    Refreshing the Psychedelic Policy Image: A News and Social Media Sentiment Analysis of the Psychedelic Renaissance.

  • Ronit Kishon

    Our science needs to be dosed.

  • Sarah Gorban

    The Microbiome: Psychedelics Beyond the Brain, A Call to Research.

Posters

  • Brian Barnett

    Is psychedelic use associated with cancer?: Interrogating a half-century old claim using contemporary population-level data.

  • Colin Domnauer

    Early Investigations into Unstudied Psychoactive Bolete Mushrooms.

  • David Horton

    A Systematized Review of the Psychotherapeutic Components of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy.

  • Elyse Smith

    Psychedelic drug policy reform: A bioethical principlist approach.

  • Emily Cribas

    A gut feeling: How our intestinal cellular network could bidirectionally shape psychedelics and their therapeutic effects.

  • Eric Dobson

    Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy for Persistent Depression in Abstinent Opioid Users: Preliminary Data from an Open Label Trial.

  • Jeffrey Allen Breau

    Spiritual Experiences to Spiritual Lives: Models for Ethical, Life-giving Psychedelic Ministry.

  • Natalie Villeneuve

    Ways forward in the wake of controversies.

  • Russell Hausfeld

    From Mining to Mushrooms: Why Are Extractive Industry Executives Speculating On Psychedelics?

  • Tara Rodriquez

    Use of psychedelic harm reduction strategies among native Spanish-speakers.

  • Thomas Daniel Meyer

    Exploring the motivation of individuals with Bipolar Disorder for recreational psychedelic use and its effects.

  • Uma Chatterjee

    MDMA-AT, PTSD, & Comorbid OCD: Exploring the potential effects of 3,4-Methyledioxymethamphetamine assisted therapy for PTSD on comorbid OCD.

  • Victor Pablo Acero

    A Neurobiological Framework for Psychedelics as Neurotrauma Therapeutics.

  • William Campo

    Psychedelic Use and Psychological Flexibility: The Role of Decentering and Meaningful Intention.