Adventures Through The Mind: Somatic Ketamine Therapy For Depression

Somatic Ketamine Therapy For Depression | Pierre Bouchard ~ ATTMind 143

Jun 11, 2021

Pierre Bouchard is on the show to talk about somatic therapy, the traumatic roots of depression, and the role ketamine-assisted somatic psychotherapy can play in healing that trauma, and thus the depression it produces.

For links to Bouchard's work, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to https://bit.ly/ATTMind143

***Full Topics Breakdown Below***

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Episode Breakdown

Somatic therapy vs traditional talk therapy
The objectivity of sensation
How somatic sensation can be used therapy
We are all creatively organized to get love in the world
How somatic therapy helps heal trauma
Adding low-dose ketamine to somatic trauma therapy | ketamine therapy for depression
How ketamine’s dissociative effects assist in safely accessing trauma feeling
Developmental trauma and the roots of depression
Treating depression through healing developmental trauma
Trauma, depression, and healing through relationship
How many somatic sessions does it take to heal depression? (integration)
The problems of the present industry of ketamine therapy for depression
Therapists should experience ketamine before providing ketamine
In the absence of somatic ketamine therapists, how can we get the help we need to make sense of our ketamine experiences
It’s never too late to have a good childhood

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