Analytic Explorations in Psychedelic Therapy

Analytic Explorations in Psychedelic Therapy is a 12-week course that focuses on applying psychoanalytic concepts and theory to contemporary psychedelic therapy.

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  • Professional
  • Last updated Jul '24
  • English
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Course Description

Analytic Explorations in Psychedelic Therapy is a 12-week course that focuses on applying psychoanalytic concepts and theory to contemporary psychedelic therapy.

Participants will learn how psychoanalytic theory and practice can shed light on such concepts as the inner healer, connection, ego death, spiritual, unitive, and challenging experiences, while exploring how contemporary psychedelic research and theory may bring about revisions or extensions to psychoanalytic theory. Through reading relevant papers, sharing reactions to music, art, film, and poetry, and exploring the experiential component of the course, participants will develop a deeper understanding of the dynamic concepts of the psyche, consciousness, and the psychotherapeutic process.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to analyze the concepts of DIED, attachment, object-relatedness, and transference, as well as the reduction of defensiveness, transitional phenomena, implicit relational knowing, and native healing intelligence. They will also be able to apply these concepts to using eyeshades, music, headphones, and the couch in psychedelic-assisted therapy, and discuss the ethical guidelines for touch in recent psychedelic therapy trials.

The course will contrast psychoanalytic and shamanic models of psychedelic healing and explore the implications of touch on transference and countertransference.

This course is given each quarter and qualifies for 15 continuing education (CE) credits.

You will learn:

  • What is Bwiti?
  • Roles in Bwiti initiation/treatment
  • Instruments in Bwiti: ngombe, mogongo
  • What is an Nganga
    • Maboundi/Yombo
    • Maboundi/Yombo
  • Sustainability/reciprocity

You will learn:

  • History of the Fang tradition
  • Dissumba vs. Dissumba Fang
  • Ombwiri/Mbumbayano Fang
  • The kambo
  • State of Fang Bwiti in Gabon
  • Impact of Westerners coming to work with the sacred wood

You will learn:

  • History of the Missoko tradition
  • Various branches of Missoko initiation:
    • Miobe/Mioba
    • Ngonde Na Dipuma
    • Sengedia
  • The impact of logging on the tradition
  • What the future of Bwiti could look like in Gabon

You will learn:

  • History of Dissumba
  • Various branches of Dissumba initiation:
    • Abanji/Mabanji
    • Ilombo
    • Ombwiri
    • Ombudi
    • Loro
  • The ngombe (sacred harp)
  • Healing rituals involved in her tradition
  • Training to serve the wood
    • What does it involve?
    • How long does it take?

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Tatayo

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About Instructor

Tatayo (“Fruit of the Wind”) first arrived in Gabon in 1971 at the age of 21 and became a Gabonese citizen. In 1979, he became the first white person to be initiated into the Bwiti Fang tradition in Gabon. In 1994, he was initiated into the Misokko tradition. As a guide for numerous expeditions and missions, including those of National Geographic, the BBC, and others, Tatayo is considered to have “opened the door” to westerners in Gabon.

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This course includes

  • Modules 12
  • Duration 12 Weeks
  • Skills Professional
  • Language English
  • Availability Past
  • Certificate CE

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