Ayahuasca Healing and Science

1. Ayahuasca as an Unusually Versatile Therapeutic Agent: From Molecules to Meta-cognition and Back

By Elisabeth Domínguez-Clavé, Matilde Elices, José A. Morales García, Juan Carlos Pascual, Joaquim Soler, Ana Pérez-Castillo, & Jordi Riba

 

2. New Evidence of the Antidepressant Effects of Ayahuasca

By Fernanda Palhano-Fontes, Sergio A. Mota-Rolim, Bruno Lobão-Soares, Nicole Galvão-Coelho, Joao P. Maia-Oliveira, & Draulio B de Araujo

 

3. Psychedelic Medicines and Their Role in Shifting the Paradigm from Pharmacological Substitution Towards Transformation-Based Psychiatry

By Milan Scheidegger


4. Ayahuasca and its Potential Role in Psychotherapy






By Mauricio Diament, Bruno Ramos Gomes, & Luís Fernando Tófoli

 

5. A Qualitative Assessment of Risks and Benefits of Ayahuasca for Trauma Survivors

By Jessica L. Nielson, Julie D. Megler, & Clancy Cavnar

 

6. Ayahuasca and Childhood Trauma: Potential Therapeutic Applications and Risks

By Daniel Perkins & Jerome Sarris

 

7. Ayahuasca and Cognition

By Natasha Mason & Kim Kuypers

 

8. Healing with the Brew: Ayahuasca's Reconfiguration of "Addiction"

By Piera Talin

 

9. Ayahuasca Ritual Healing as an Addiction Treatment in Catalonia: Combining Cognitive and Cultural Perspectives

By Ismael Apud

 

10. Perspectives on Healing and Recovery from Addiction with Ayahuasca-Assisted Therapy Among Members of an Indigenous Community in Canada

By Elena Argento, Rielle Capler, Gerald Thomas, Philippe Lucas, & Kenneth Tupper

 

11. Ayahuasca as a Healing Tool Along the Continuum of Recovery from Eating Disorders

By Adèle Lafrance, Marika Renelli, Jenna Fletcher, Anja Loizaga-Velder, & Kenneth Tupper

 

12. The Therapeutic Use of Ayahuasca in Grief

By Debora Gonzalez, Maria Carvalho, & Adam Andros

 

13. Depression, Anxiety and Sorcery: An Interview with Shipibo Healer Jose Lopez

 By Adam Andros Aronovich & Beatriz Caiuby Labate

Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of plant medicines, drug policy, shamanism, ritual, and religion. She is Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines (https://chacruna.net), an organization that provides public education about psychedelic plant medicines. She is Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. She is also Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil, and editor of NEIP's website (http://www.neip.info), as well as editor of the Mexican blog Chacruna Lationoamérica (http://drogaspoliticacultura.net). She is author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-one books, two special-edition journals, and several peer-reviewed articles (http://bialabate.net).