Harvey Schwartz, PhD talks with Julian Royce about trauma, PTSD, healing, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, and the importance of psychedelic medicine and his passion for training the next generation of psychedelic assisted therapists. 
 
Links for Harvey Schwartz:
https://www.polarisinsight.com
 
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Harvey-L.-Schwartz/author/B001IZ1EJC?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
 
Harvey Schwartz, PhD has written numerous books & articles, including  and the Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep and Dialogues with Forgotten Voices and co-authoring  Integral Psychedelic Therapy.
 
A State of Mind Podcast: www.astateofmindpodcast.com
 
Somatic trauma informed therapy, Psychedelic assisted Therapy, Meditation training & more: www.astateofmindcounseling.org
 
Support the show: www.patreon.com/astateofmind
Venmo: @Julian-Royce
 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianoceann/
 
Find Julian on SoundCloud at: https://soundcloud.com/julian-ocean-1
 
Partial List of Topics in chronological order:

MAPS
Lykos - a new organization
KAP for acute suicidality
Career before his interest in Psychedelic medicine
How PTSD became first recognized as a diagnosis in 1980
How millions of people suffering from trauma were misdiagnosed and shamed and blamed
Judith Herman's book Trauma and Recovery 
The challenge of healing internalized negative beliefs, especially as part of PTSD. 
Children before 8-10 yrs old automatically blame themselves because of their level of cognitive development. 
The power of Psychedelic medicine to heal and to connect what has been disconnected and break apart the negative belief systems
Most of our medicines are suppressive in nature
Scott Shannon's paper on how Ketamine assisted therapy is a  paradigm shift
Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex which manages symptoms versus curing the root causes
The way millions of people have been treated as objects by doctors and psychiatrists - the essence of humanity has not been fully taken into account
How 4 million people had done LSD by 1969
Ways people are harmed in the mental health system
Psychologists that lose their license
No one should do this work of therapy alone.
Be Held while Holding 
3 types of Therapeutic Touch:

Safety touch - mandatory
Supportive Touch
Therapeutic Touch - more complicated - for release work. 

The need for touch in psychedelic assisted therapy. It is important to talk about this before hand - and have the agreement that clients cannot change their mind about it during session, it needs to be decided on before hand.
How Disassociation is a huge spectrum.
Psychedelic based disassociation
Dissociation is always Positive. 
We need Dharma not Dogma. 
The growing issue of Tribalism in our culture and the shadow side of human nature to form in and out groups


---

Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-state-of-mind/message
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-state-of-mind/support