PT431 – Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D. – The Concept of Integration and the Need for Evolving Protocols of Psychedelic Therapy
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this episode, Kyle interviews The Susan Hill Ward Endowed Professor of Psychedelics and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins, and renowned researcher of nearly 20 years: Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D.
Recorded in-person at MAPS' Psychedelic Science after running an 8-hour workshop on psychedelic therapy for addiction treatment, Johnson was still happy to sit down with PT to explore a wide range of topics: the under-researched concept of integration; how to best take advantage of optimal neuroplastic windows; why psycholytic therapy used to be more common; how our current protocols and research models are largely arbitrary; and his hopes for new, experimental, and flexible models of psychedelic therapy.
He also discusses his ongoing smoking cessation studies; the Oregon model (are we doing therapy or not?); misrepresentation in psychedelic therapy and knowing your lane; and the role of music in psychedelics: why shouldn't people pick the music they know will give them goosebumps?
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| 1:28.4 | Thank you. Hello everybody, welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is your host, Kyle Buller, and today on the show, I have the honor and privilege to sit down with Dr. Matthew Johnson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University. |
| 1:33.0 | If this is your first time summary across Dr. Johnson's work, there's a chance maybe it |
| 1:37.5 | isn't because he's contributed quite a bit in the psychedelic world. |
| 1:41.3 | Maybe you've read some papers that he's contributed to. Maybe he didn't know it. |
| 1:46.1 | Just do a little Google search on him. But if you want to go back into the psychedelics today archive, |
| 1:51.6 | we did a really fantastic interview with him. It is episode 229, and that title is Dr. Johnson. |
| 1:58.5 | What is consciousness? And we discuss a paper that he wrote called consciousness, religion, |
| 2:03.5 | gurus, and the pitfalls of psychedelic medicine. |
| 2:06.7 | In this episode, we get to sit down and chat about so many different things, |
| 2:12.1 | but we start off talking about just how the field has been growing and evolving over the years and how, you know, |
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