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Access NOSCs (Non Ordinary States of Consciousness), without the use of substances, through music, poetry, film and literature.
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Demonstrate a phenomenological understanding of DIED (Drug Induced Ego Dissolution).
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Analyze prior dynamic concepts of the psyche, consciousness, and the process of psychotherapeutic transformation with DIED.
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Explain the differences between the concepts of “connection”/“connectedness”, as described in the psychedelic-assisted therapy literature, with the psychoanalytic processes of attachment, including, self-other boundaries, ego defenses, and ego dissolution.
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Apply the core elements of subjective change identified in psilocybin-assisted therapy for cancer-related existential distress to concepts in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
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Compare contemporary models for “defensiveness” and “reduction in defensiveness” that are commonly reported as an effect of psychedelic therapy with the psychoanalytic concepts of nature of threat, signal anxiety, and danger.
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Apply Winnicott’s concept of transitional phenomena to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
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Describe how a transitional space can support the psychedelic-assisted therapist’s approach to working with drug-induced non-ordinary experience.
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Describe the concepts of “moments of meeting” as “the something more than interpretation” from the change process of psychoanalytic therapy.
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Explain how “implicit relational knowing” and “moments of meeting” may be experienced in psychedelic therapy.