177: Ketamine, MAPS & what’s next for psychedelic-assisted therapy with Gita Vaid, M.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Board certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Gita Vaid, M.D., has been not just researching psychedelic-assisted therapy in her practice, but she has found it to be a successful tool for treating depression in some of her patients. Her area of expertise is specifically with ketamine and she tells all to mbg founder and co-CEO, Jason Wachob. Learn how psychedelics have the potential to shift how we view and manage our mental health, plus the power of emotional connection and why we should make time to sit with our thoughts. Tune in to this episode to find out what happens during a typical doctor-monitored ketamine-assisted therapy session and how it can help people better access their emotions. To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email [email protected]. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email [email protected]. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here! Enjoy this episode! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jason Walkup, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host for the My Buddy
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0:28.6	Dr Gita Vaid is a board certified psychiatrist and psychoanalysis practicing in New York.
0:36.0	She completed her residency training at NYU Medical Center and psycho analytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with NYU. analytic pharmacology at New York Medical College and a research fellowship at
0:55.5	NYU Medical Center. She's currently on faculty and teaches at both
0:59.7	IPE and NYU Department of Psychiatry. Her current focus and interests I.
1:03.2	Her current focus and interest is in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.
1:09.0	She's a maps training therapist and part of the New York site phase 3 MDMA psychotherapy study for
1:15.1	PTSD and today we're gonna go deep on ketamine therapy.
1:21.7	Gita, welcome.
1:23.0	Thank you for having me.
1:24.0	It is so great to have you here.
1:26.0	So I am super excited because I am fascinated by what you do.
1:32.0	Ketamine therapy. So let's start with what is
1:38.0	ketamine and give us a little history what was traditionally used for and what you do exactly.
1:44.0	I'm a psychiatrist in private practice.
1:46.5	I'm a psychiatrist and a psycho analyst so that's my background and my orientation.
1:51.5	And in the last several years, I would say six, seven years,
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