Best Stephen Smoak Podcasts (2024)

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2.18 - Dr Eli Kotler 1:25:28

2d ago1:25:28

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TW: Suicide Dr Eli Kotler Dr Eli Kotler is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. He is the Medical Director of Malvern Private Hospital, an addiction and trauma hospital in Melbourne. Eli completed the inaugural Mind Medicine Australia Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies (CPAT)™ course, and has since been on its Fac…

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2.17 - Dr Bill Richards 1:07:37

9d ago1:07:37

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-- Your Host Dr Deb Roberts, PhD is the Mind Medicine Australia Podcast host for Season 2 and has been a MMA volunteer, guides the weekly staff meditation, on the MMA Lived Experience Panel and has a life-long relationship with mental (ill) health yet been able to navigate a fulfilling existence through various means. She is deeply passionate about…

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2.16 - Glen Boyes 55:46

1M ago55:46

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TW: Suicide Glen Boyes Glen was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010/2011 to Helmand province as part of the counter IED task force. He took part in the biggest counter IED op in Afghan history safely clearing and returning a large village back to locals. This tour did not come easy as his team suffered 2 casualties in an IED blast 15 days into our tour…

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Amphibian Foundation - Mark Mandica 1:02:12

1M ago1:02:12

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Listening Shortcuts: Amphibian Foundation (AF) Background: 0:45 Amphibian Foundation Scope: 1:56 AF Details: 3:30 Education Branch: 4:00 Conservation Branch: 12:00 Bridge Program: 19:00 Proudest Projects: 20:40 What projects could use a boost: 25:30 Setbacks for AF: 27:15 How is AF funded?: 29:50 Partnerships and Diversity: 31:40 How to help the AF…

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Okapi Conservation Project - Lucas Meers 1:09:44

1M ago1:09:44

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Listening Shortcuts: Okapi Conservation Project (OCP) Background: 0:42 What is an Okapi?: 4:24 Okapi Wildlife Reserve: 12:53 OCP Details: 22:30 Agroforestry: 26:50 Women’s Empowerment: 32:40 Okapi Monitoring: 36:50 Security Concerns: 38:10 Community Care: 44:45 How to help the OCP: 47:10 Skills for Conservation Organizations: 50:45 Lucas Meers Deta…

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2.15 - Dr Gita Vaid 1:12:01

1M ago1:12:01

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TW: Suicide Dr Gita Vaid Gita Vaid MD is a board certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and co-founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence, a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to psychedelic psychotherapy's innovation and clinical practice. A lead instructor at The Ketamine Training Center and member of the Mount Sinai Psychedelic Psycho…

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2.14 - Dr Stephen Proud 1:19:57

2M ago1:19:57

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TW: Suicide Stephen Proud is a psychiatrist in private practice in regional WA with 45 years’ experience in medicine and 25 years as a psychiatrist. He has worked as a GP in rural WA, Perth and rural Zululand South Africa. He has taught GPs and psychiatric registrars for many years in Perth. He has built and run two psychiatric hospitals, one in Pe…

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2.13 - Megan Smoak 1:33:09

2M ago1:33:09

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TW: Suicide Megan Smoak is a Clinical Psychologist, Board endorsed clinical supervisor and lecturer in Clinical Psychology. Megan works with clients at any stage across the lifespan including young children and adolescents. Megan has experience working with a wide variety of clinical challenges including management of ADHD in children & adults, anx…

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2.12 - Andrew Robb 1:34:36

3M ago1:34:36

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Until his recent retirement from politics, Andrew Robb was Australia’s Minister for Trade, Investment and Tourism. In this role Mr Robb negotiated Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Japan and China, as well as the 12 country Transpacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement. Mr Robb is currently Executive Chairman of The Robb Group (A corpor…

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2.11 - Dr Ted Cassidy 1:13:38

3M ago1:13:38

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Dr Ted Cassidy is a psychiatrist and co-founder of Monarch Mental Health Group which provides innovative next step treatments for people suffering from Depression, PTSD and anxiety. Monarch Mental Health is Australia's first outpatient clinic offering psychedelic-assisted therapy and Australia's largest provider of outpatient magnetic stimulation t…

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2.10 - Annette Baulch & Graeme Sudholz 1:17:47

4M ago1:17:47

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Trigger Warning: Suicide & SA Annette Baulch & Graeme Sudholz have been relationship counsellors, sex therapists and retreat facilitators with a tantric flavour since 2006. Their inclusive approach is known for changing lives through changing relationships, as couples learn to open their hearts and come home to love. Dr Deb Roberts, PhD is the Mind…

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2.9 - Kerry Soorley 1:16:46

4M ago1:16:46

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Kerry is a nurse of 44 years, mother of four and grandmother to nine, specialising in palliative care. She had suffered depression, addictions and suicidal ideation all her life. “Trauma by omission” Gabor Mate calls it. Every antidepressant, therapy, book, course and seminar failed and just left her feeling hopeless and wanting to die even though …

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2.8 - Tony Mantz 1:29:21

5M ago1:29:21

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TW: Suicide Tony Mantz aka “Jack the Bear” has been in the music industry since 1981 working in all facets of it , including being a radio announcer on MMM FM Melbourne for the duration of the 90’s. He has had an interest in psychedelics since first hearing about them on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast back in 2009. In Jan 2020 he had the most tra…

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2.7 - John Lee 1:19:31

5M ago1:19:31

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TW: Suicide Rising into the public eye as esteemed Founder of Cutting Edge Post, one of Australia’s largest and most awarded post production companies and working on over 50 US and Australian movies and over 700 episodes of scripted drama television as well as many thousands of television commercials, John Lee is renowned as a skilled Technical Dir…

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2.6 - Simone Dowding 1:15:35

6M ago1:15:35

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TW: Suicide A passionate Mental Health Advocate, mentor, leader and speaker. Simone was voted (Inside Small Business Magazine) as one of the top 50 Business Leaders for 2020. She is a successful entrepreneur and CEO. She was Head of social enterprise for World Vision Australia, responsible for the start up and international scaling of Change Coffee…

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2.5 - Brian Walker 1:22:02

7M ago1:22:02

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TW: Suicide Brian Follett Walker (born 5 September 1954) is an Australian politician and medical practitioner. At the 2021 Western Australian state election, Walker was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Legalise Cannabis WA member for the East Metropolitan Region. His term commenced on 24 May 2021. Walker was born in Malays…

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2.4 - Marjane Beaugeois 1:10:47

7M ago1:10:47

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TW: Suicide Marjane is a trauma-informed addictions and mental health counsellor with over 7 year’s experience in spiritual healing practices and ancestral plant medicines. Marjane grew up in France, completing a degree in Biology there, and then her Masters in Australia. Marjane undertook training as a trauma informed counsellor and has a strong u…

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2.3 - Van Humphries 1:35:01

7M ago1:35:01

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Van is first and foremost a heart-led man who lives through an intention of self-responsibility. He was gifted the opportunity to live a childhood dream as a professional Rugby Union player in Australia and abroad over 13 years, and as a professional coach over 7 years nationally. Van worked in a theatre support role for Orthopaedics and devices fo…

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2.2 - Vanessa Bortolin 58:00

8M ago58:00

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TW: Suicide Vanessa Bortolin is a retired accountant, mother to a teenage daughter and widow to her beautiful husband of 30 years, Franco, who she lost two years ago to suicide after his 3-year battle with treatment-resistant clinical depression. Vanessa had the foresight to begin documenting, via an excel spreadsheet, medication dosage increments …

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2.1 - Tommy Moore 1:43:28

9M ago1:43:28

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Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses. In furtherance of this mission, Th…

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2.0 - MMA Podcast Season 2 Introduction 5:21

10M ago5:21

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Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses. Mind Medicine Australia is a regis…

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1.26 - Current Status of Psychedelics in Psychiatry: A Brief Review of Clinical Research by Treatment Condition 17:06

1y ago17:06

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This podcast discusses the current state of research on the use of psychedelics in psychiatry, especially psilocybin, for the treatment of depression and other mental illnesses, including the precautions that must be taken before treatment, the standardized four-stage treatment model for depression, and the obstacles that must be overcome to use ps…

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1.25 - Fundamentals of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies 12:51

1y ago12:51

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In this podcast, we will provide a brief overview of psychedelic-assisted therapy, including its therapeutic process and the psychedelic experience. Support the podcast Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies Donate to Mind Medicine Australia In this episode: The definition of psychedelic-assisted therapy The three phases of the therapeutic p…

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1.24 - Next Steps for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies in Australia 18:19

1+ y ago18:19

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In this podcast, we discuss what the next steps are, following the TGA's decision to change the classification of psilocybin and MDMA to enable prescribing by authorised psychiatrists. Support the podcast In this episode: The mission of Mind Medicine in light of the rescheduling of psilocybin and MDMA for medical use in Australia effective July 1st…

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1.23 - Prof David Nutt: The Endocannabinoid System And The Future Of Medical Cannabis 1:09:41

2y ago1:09:41

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Professor David Nutt is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain. In this episode: The Endocannabinoid System THC, CBD and other cannabinoids CB1 and CB2 receptors The Entourage Effect Constituents of cannabis Medicinal Cannabis Support the podcast: Support the podcast Support Mind Medicine Au…

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1.22 - James Fadiman: Opening Up The Capacity For Change & Creating A Healthy Multiplicity Of Selves 1:45:21

2y ago1:45:21

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Dr James Fadiman is an American psychologist and writer. Fadiman received a Master's degree and a doctorate in Psychology from Stanford University back in 1960. His friend and former Harvard undergraduate advisor, Ram Dass (then known as Richard Alpert), introduced him to psychedelics. Fast-forward 60 years and Fadiman is now known and acknowledged…

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1.21 - Katrin Preller, PhD: Neurobiological Mechanisms Of Psychedelics And Implications For Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy 49:12

2y ago49:12

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Katrin Preller received her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2013. After completing her PhD, she investigated the effects of psychedelics on self-perception and social cognition. Her research interests are centred around the neuropharmacology of emotional and cognitive processes in health and psychiatric …

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1.20 - Prof Karl Friston: Theories Of Consciousness And Hierarchical Deep Self-Models Of Brain And Mind 1:18:02

2+ y ago1:18:02

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Professor Karl Friston is a British theoretical neuroscientist at University College London and an authority on brain imaging. Karl has been awarded with countless different prizes and accomplishments, and is considered one of the most influential neuroscientists of the modern era. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morph…

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1.19 - Dr Dan Engle: Dissolving Into Your Inner Healing Intelligence With Trust And Compassion 1:30:43

2+ y ago1:30:43

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Dan Engle, MD, is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance. Dan obtained his medical degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His psychiatry residency degree is from the University of Colorado Denver, and his child and adol…

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1.18 - Dr. Lynn Marie Morski: Educating Medical Practitioners About Psychedelic Medicine 55:57

2+ y ago55:57

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Lynn-Marie Morski, MD, JD is the president of the Psychedelic Medicine Association, host of the Plant Medicine Podcast, founder of Plant Medicine.org, and the medical director for Way of Leaf.com. Lynn-Marie is a Mayo Clinic-trained physician in family medicine and sports medicine, as well as an attorney and former adjunct law professor. She starte…

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1.17 - Adam Gazzaley MD, PhD: Bridging Between The Molecular And Neurophysiological Mechanisms Of Psychedelics To Clinical Outcomes 1:09:25

2+ y ago1:09:25

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Adam Gazzaley MD, PhD is a neuroscientist, neurologist, inventor, author, photographer, entrepreneur and investor. Adam obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, completed Neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at University of …

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1.16 - Prof David Nutt: The Neuroscience Of Psychedelics, Addiction, And How Drugs Help Us Understand The Brain 1:01:10

3y ago1:01:10

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Prof David Nutt is Neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. David is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs. Nutt is the deputy head of the Centre for Psychedelic…

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1.15 - Dennis McKenna: Catalysing A Global Transformation Of Human Consciousness 1:32:44

3y ago1:32:44

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Dennis McKenna is an Ethnopharmacolgist, research pharmacist, lecturer, and author. Dennis is a founding member and director of ethnographic research at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization involved in investigating the potential of therapeutic use of drugs. He is the brother of the famous psychedelic advocate Terence McKenna. …

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1.14 - Andrew Robb AO, MP: Psychedelic Medicine Is The Future Of Mental Health Care 31:00

3y ago31:00

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Andrew Robb was Australia’s Minister for Trade, Investment, and Tourism. Currently, Andrew is the chairman of The Robb Group (corporate and investment advisory company) and is a board member for multiple organizations, including Mind Medicine Australia. He is the author of Black Dog Daze: Public Life, Private Demons, his memoir that explores the ch…

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1.13 - Nigel Denning: Opening Up To A New Possibility Of Mind 1:09:02

3y ago1:09:02

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Nigel Denning is the Director and Counselling Psychologist at Integrative Psychology Nigel is a former Family Violence Co-ordinator for Relationships Australia and is the Deputy President of the In Good Faith Foundation. He has studied in the United States and Europe with Dr. Stanislac Grof, one of the founders of Transpersonal Psychology and Holot…

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1.12 - Lars Wilde: Scaling The Model For Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy 1:06:24

3y ago1:06:24

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Lars Wilde is the President, Chief Business Officer, and Co-founder of COMPASS Pathways. COMPASS is a UK life sciences company that works to expedite the approval and delivery of mental health therapies to patients and focuses primarily on testing psilocybin for use in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). They have 22 trials running …

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1.11 - David. B. Yaden, Ph.D.: Transcending Time, Space, and Self 1:00:24

3y ago1:00:24

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David Bryce Yaden, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine in The Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. David's research focus is on the psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopharmacology of spiritual, self-transcendent, and positively transformative experiences triggered with psychedelic substances an…

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1.10 - Dr. Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D.: The Psychology and Biology Of Trauma, PTSD, And MDMA-Assisted Therapy 53:23

3y ago53:23

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Dr. Rachel Yehuda, PhD. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. This research includes the PTSD clinical research program and the Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs …

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1.9 - MDMA: Pharmacology And Therapeutic Mechanisms 32:38

3y ago32:38

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The scope of psychedelic research is expanding and it's only in the last couple of decades that we have been able to find how MDMA, among other psychedelic compounds, exert their effect in the body. Pharmacology is the use, effects, and modes of drug action. In this episode: Pharmacology and therapeutic mechanisms of MDMA: Where does psilocybin exe…

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1.8 - Psilocybin: Pharmacology And Therapeutic Mechanisms 31:11

3y ago31:11

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The scope of psychedelic research is expanding and it's only in the last couple of decades that we have been able to find how psilocybin, as well as other psychedelic compounds, exert their effect in the body. Pharmacology is the use, effects, and modes of drug action. In this episode: Pharmacology and therapeutic mechanisms of Psilocybin: Where do…

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1.7 - Peter Hunt AM: The Context For Psychedelic Medicine 48:22

3+ y ago48:22

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Peter Hunt AM is a Social Entrepreneur, Investor and Engaged Philanthropist, Founder Greenhill Australia, Women's Commnity Shelters and Mind Medicine Australia. In this episode: Stats on mental illness in Australia Psilocybin and MDMA - psychological phenomena and scientific evidence Antidepressants / SSRIs and common pharmaceutical treatments Rein…

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1.6 - Rick Doblin, Ph.D.: MDMA - History, Toxicity, And Therapeutic Use 1:07:26

3+ y ago1:07:26

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Rick Doblin, PhD. is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). MAPS is a non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. Rick did his Master's thesis on a survey…

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1.5 - Dr Reid Robison: Undoing Rigid Thinking 48:45

3+ y ago48:45

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Reid Robison, MD MBA, is a psychedelic psychiatrist & researcher. Reid has led over 100 clinical trials in neuropsychiatry. He completed his undergraduate in Neuroscience at Brigham Young University and went on to medical school at the University of Utah where he earned both his MD and MBA. Of course, he didn’t stop there, after residency training …

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1.4 - Dr Tanveer Ahmed: The Medicalisation of Experience 52:07

3+ y ago52:07

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Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a psychiatrist, author and columnist. Tanveer works in the public, private and forensic sectors. He has served on local government, the government advisory body called the Australia Multicultural Council, the Advertising Standards Board and as a Governor of the Smith Family. His 2 books Fragile Nation and In Defence Of Shame exa…

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1.3 - Dr Prash Puspanathan: The Psychiatric Potential Of Psychedelic Medicine 1:03:48

3+ y ago1:03:48

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Dr. Prash Puspanathan (aka Dr. Prash P) is a medical doctor and has been a Neurospychiatry Fellow at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne since 2013. It was his initial interest in psychedelic medicine that prompted his curiosity into the world of the mind, leading him to study Psychiatry to further his interest in psychedelic medicine and its therapeu…

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1.2 - Dr Alana Roy: Why Psychedelic Medicine Offers New Hope 47:16

3+ y ago47:16

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Dr. Alana Roy is a psychologist, mental health social worker, counselor, advocate, researcher, mindfulness meditation teacher, and therapist and has spent the last 13 years working in a broad range of settings including suicide prevention, trauma, sexual abuse, and family violence, and also the disability sector. Alana utilizes and offers a wide ra…

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1.1 - Tania de Jong AM: Shining A Light On Breakthrough Therapies For Mental Illness 30:00

3+ y ago30:00

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Tania De Jong AM is the co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia, inspirational speaker, singer, businesswoman and social entrepreneur who has founded a number of successful businesses including Creative Universe, leading innovation conference Creative Innovation Global, Inspiring Minds leadership programs, MTA Entertainment and Events, Dimension5 co-…

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