Adventures Through The Mind: Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy For The Terminally Ill

Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy For The Terminally Ill | TheraPsil ~ ATTMind 133

Dec 4, 2020

TheraPsil is a coalition of healthcare professionals, patients, and advocates dedicated to fighting for the rights of Canadians facing end-of-life or illness-related distress to have legal access to therapeutic psychedelics.

Members of the TheraPsil team join ATTMIND for a discussion about their legal argument for access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill here in Canada; the role of psilocybin in helping alleviate the existential suffering that comes during a person’s dying time (and thus into talk about life’s meaning and its presence or absence in that dying time.

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***Full Topics Breakdown Below***

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Episode Breakdown

What access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for terminally ill patients matters
Our constitutional right to psilocybin
How psilocybin has helped me with the anxiety of knowing I will die
The ignorance of the modern medical paradigm around mental health issues
The modern medical paradigm’s focus on suppression rather than healing
The cultural limitations to undoing bad laws
Why society more receptive to psychedelics now then they were in the 60s
Psilocybin revealing the meaning of life through the dissolution of cultural ideologies
The psychological context of a dying person and why psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill is helpful in that context
The negative cultural paradigm we have around death worsens end of life distress and how psilocybin helps
Dying people are generally on a lot of drugs, how to assess the pharmacological safety of psilocybin in that context
The complexities of pain management during psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill
Advice to palliative nurses based on lessons learned in psilocybin assisted therapy for terminal anxiety
Pain management reduction of total pain after a psilocybin experience
The increase of spiritual care in palliative medicine
What it took for therapsil to succeed in getting access to dying patients in Canada
Will decriminalization hinder medical access?
The impact increased access to psilocybin might have for society
The successful progression of medical science; achieving patient access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill