Frontiers in Psychiatry
February 1, 2024
Phil Wolfson, Gita Vaid
17 citations
Psychiatry is in a growth phase in which several psychedelic medicines have entered its arena with great promise. Of these, presently, ketamine is the only medicine that may be legally prescribed. We hypothesize that at subanesthetic doses, ketamine produces a unique spectrum of altered states, ranging from psychoactive to deep ego-dissolving experiences, that are intrinsic to ketamine’s...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
March 15, 2019
Jennifer Dore, Brent Turnipseed, Shannon Dwyer et al.
207 citations
Currently, ketamine is the only legal psychedelic medicine available to mental health providers for the treatment of emotional suffering. Over the past several years, ketamine has come into psychiatric use as an intervention for treatment resistant depression (TRD), administered intravenously without a psychotherapeutic component. In these settings, ketamine's psychedelic effects are viewed as...
Tikkun
2018
Phil Wolfson
1 citation
in this time of ever ascendant materialism, greed, and pathological narcissism, when the delusion of the disconnected dominant individual grows stronger, the contrary life-affirming stream of connection and respect is gaining strength even as it is suppressed, vilified, and criminalized. This stream, which we can call ‘awakening consciousness,’ is the motor of civilization. It moves in the...
Tikkun
July 6, 2016
Phil Wolfson
3 citations
Research Article| January 01 2011 Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Transformation Phil Wolfson Phil Wolfson Author InformationPhil Wolfson, MD, is a practicing psychiatrist/psychotherapist in the Bay Area. He is the author of the forthcoming Noe—A Father/Son Song of Love, Life, Sickness and Death. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tikkun (2011) 26 (1): 10–88....