Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers
The psychedelic renaissance is here! Join Dr. Steve Thayer, Dr. Reid Robison, and special guests as they explore the frontiers of psychedelic medicine and what it takes to cultivate a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Our hosts draw from their extensive knowledge and experience with psychedelic therapy research and treatment to discuss the science, practice, and art of psychedelic healing. If you are a helping professional, therapist, clinician, guide, healer, psychedelic enthusiast, or simply curious about mental, physical, and spiritual health, this is the podcast for you!
Episodes
202 episodes
Making peace with pain: Mindfulness, psychedelics, and the neuroplastic path to relief
Pain is an unavoidable feature of life. Some would argue that the desire to avoid or stop pain is a foundational driver of most human behaviors. But what about when pain is chronic? How much does our attitude toward our pain affect our experien...
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Episode 202
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36:19
Meditation and mindfulness in psychedelic therapy and everyday life
Meditation as a practice, a life path, or a mindset is central to many ancient wisdom traditions and modern psychotherapies. It’s also a useful tool for preparing for, navigating, and integrating psychedelic experiences. In today’s epi...
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Episode 201
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44:14
Counterintuitive truths and paradoxes about healing
In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we’re talking about a few counterintuitive ideas or paradoxes that one might encounter on their personal growth or healing journey. Due to their paradoxical nature, these ideas ca...
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Episode 200
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44:22
Boundaries: How to free up your time and energy for what matters most (Rebroadcast)
In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, the podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss boundaries. They explore the importance and challenges of setting healthy boundaries, different categories of boundary-setting, ...
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Episode 199
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47:09
Finishing unfinished business
In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we’re talking about unfinished business. Now I don’t mean “unfinished business” in the hyper-aggressive revenge film kind of way. No, we’re talking about unresolved emotions, memo...
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Episode 198
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52:04
You are already free
Do you ever feel like something is wrong with you? Like if you were just able to fix the way you think, feel, or behave then you would finally enjoy peace, connection, and freedom? Perhaps you’ve even gone to therapy with this intention and wor...
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Episode 197
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42:58
Interpreting dreams, lucid dreaming, and psychedelics
Sigmund Freud said that dreams are the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we explore this royal road as we discuss the nature of dreams, the neur...
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Episode 196
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57:45
Understanding insecurities and how to overcome them
Have you ever been accused of being insecure? It’s something, if we’re being honest with ourselves, nearly all of us struggle with. I’m not smart enough, attractive enough, rich enough, successful enough. It seems like there are an infinite num...
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Episode 195
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40:49
What is consciousness and what can psychedelics teach us about the nature of conscious awareness?
What is consciousness? Is it unique to humans? Is a bat, a tree, or an AI agent conscious? What does it mean for something to be subconscious or unconscious? What does altering consciousness with psychedelic compounds teach us about its nature?...
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Episode 194
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49:24
How stories, self-narratives, and biases shape our mental health
The human mind is a meaning-making machine. It does its best to make sense out of the constant barrage of information flooding it moment to moment. One of the ways your mind does this is by creating and using filters. These filters go by many n...
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Episode 193
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51:10
Adult development | Waking up vs growing up, enlightenment, and the midlife crisis (Rebroadcast)
In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss adult development. That’s right, folks. Developmental stages aren’t just for the kids. Reid and Steve explore different theories on adul...
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Episode 192
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1:10:01
Sleep apnea awareness, 5-MeO-DMT for heavy drinking, LSD for anxiety, and psychedelics for personality disorders
Do you have one of those fancy wearable devices that tracks your sleep? How reliable are those things? Could they help detect a serious sleep disorder like sleep apnea? How detrimental is sleep apnea on physical and mental health? What are the ...
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Episode 191
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1:08:40
Compounding Growth: How to Invest in Yourself for Lifelong Transformation
If you take any beginner’s class in economics or finance you undoubtedly learn about how investments grow over time via compound interest. But what if we apply this concept of investment and compounding growth to personal development? ...
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Episode 190
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1:00:48
On creativity, forgiveness, and being an artist without a medium with Haymitch St. Stephen
When we describe artists we typically describe them in terms of their medium: a musician, a scuplter, a painter, a poet, etc. But what does it really mean to be an artist or, for that matter, to be creative? Can you be an artist without a mediu...
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Episode 189
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1:07:47
Ancient wisdom for modern problems
How relevant are the teachings of ancient philosophers for modern problems? Marcus Arelius didn’t have social media. The Buddha never got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. At first glance the stressors of modern life seem so different from wha...
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Episode 188
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1:01:37
Make new year’s resolutions that matter
Last episode we talked about taking time as a new year approaches to reflect on the previous year. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss how to make new year’s resolutions that really matter to you. We expl...
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Episode 187
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51:09
Reflecting on the year: Learning, appreciating, and growing
2024 is coming to a close. Before we give too much thought to resolutions and intentions for the new year, it can be helpful to reflect on the past year. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss what can be gl...
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Episode 186
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44:09
Grist for the mill: Ram Dass Legacy Retreat report with Jeremy Robison and John Patterson
Reid has recently returned from the Ram Das Legacy Retreat in Maui run by the Love Serve Remember Foundation. In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we sat down for a trip report with Reid’s brother, Jeremy Robison, and...
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Episode 185
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1:00:34
Understanding legacy and ancestral burdens and gifts
In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast we’re exploring legacy (or sometimes called ancestral) burdens and gifts. This is the idea that beliefs, interpersonal patterns, narratives, emotions, unresolved trauma, and/or pai...
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Episode 184
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53:20
Will AI replace therapists?
If an artificial intelligence (AI) therapist was available, would you use it? Could an AI program replace your therapist? What are the potential opportunities and risks of using AI for help with your mental health? What might the future hold as...
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Episode 183
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40:58
Gul Dolen MD, PhD on how psychedelics could be the master key that unlocks critical learning periods allowing real change to happen (Rebroadcast)
In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Gül Dölen MD, PhD. Gül is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a pione...
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Episode 182
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1:18:28
Psychotic disorders, psychedelics, and cannabis
Does using cannabis put you at a greater risk of developing schizophrenia? Is it safe to use psychedelic-assisted therapy for psychotic disorders? Is there a difference between the psychotic experience and the psychedelic experience?In toda...
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Episode 181
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41:51
Research roundup: How psychedelics affect personality traits, empathy, depression, and more
Do psychedelics make people more empathic? Does coming off antidepressants before psychedelic therapy affect outcomes? Can MDMA change your personality? Can a psychedelic medicine without the “trip” still help with depression? In today...
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Episode 180
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51:05
Measuring the psychedelic experience
We’ve spent a lot of time on this show talking about the potential mental health risks and benefits of experiences occasioned by psychedelic medicines. But how do scientists and clinicians know if and to what extent a psychedelic experience is ...
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Episode 179
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54:07
What you need to know about narcissism
In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, we discuss what narcissism is, the difference between narcissistic personality disorder and narcissistic traits, some theories on why narcissism develops, why we might want to hav...
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Episode 178
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48:23