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Symptoms as Signals: Trauma and the Role of Inner Healing Intelligence

July 5, 2024
Featuring: Casey Paleos, MD

In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, David interviews Casey Paleos, MD: Vital instructor, researcher, psychiatrist with a private practice offering ketamine infusion therapy and KAP, and co-founder of Nautilus Sanctuary, a non-profit psychedelic research, education, and advocacy organization. 

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In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, David interviews Casey Paleos, MD: Vital instructor, researcher, psychiatrist with a private practice offering ketamine infusion therapy and KAP, and co-founder of Nautilus Sanctuary, a non-profit psychedelic research, education, and advocacy organization. 

Paleos talks about how stress creates trauma, and how the symptoms Western medicine tries to silence are actually signals – a quality assurance mechanism sending an alert that something is wrong, and that when symptoms are labeled as ‘treatment-resistant,’ is it actually a case of one’s own inner healing intelligence outsmarting a medication to make sure that that message is delivered?  

He discusses:

  • MAPS’ recent advisory board ruling, past ethical violations, and how training should be done
  • How consent in a therapeutic relationship is an ongoing process of checking in 
  • How psychedelic-assisted therapy (and maybe all therapy) is simply removing obstacles so one’s own inner healing intelligence can do its job
  • The importance of a culture (and training) that celebrates all therapeutic modalities as complementary: There’s a lot of uniqueness in this world, so we should embrace that  

and more!

Links

Drpaleos.com

Nautilussanctuary.org

Verywellmind.com: What Is the Diathesis-Stress Model?

Lykospbc.com: Lykos Therapeutics Statement on FDA Advisory Committee Meeting

Cbc.ca: Footage of therapists spooning and pinning down patient in B.C. trial for MDMA therapy prompts review

PT464 – Bodywork, Somatic Literacy, and Understanding Trauma: The Mind and Body Connection, featuring: Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Nautilussanctuary.org: The Dana Paleos Fund

Mymodernmet.com: Kintsugi: The Centuries-Old Art of Repairing Broken Pottery with Gold

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Casey Paleos, MD

Casey Paleos, MD is a psychiatrist and researcher with over 13 years of experience in the use of psychedelic medicines for the treatment of mental health disorders, dating back to his work as a study therapist in the landmark Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety study at NYU, where he also served as co-principal investigator in the NYU-Bellevue Ketamine for Depression study. He has been serving patients in his private practice with both ketamine infusion therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy since 2016. From 2018 to 2023, Dr. Paleos served as a principal investigator and study therapist for the MAPS-sponsored MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD Phase 3 Clinical Trials, and has served MAPS as an MDMA-assisted therapy supervisor since 2022. He is the co-founder of Nautilus Sanctuary, a non-profit psychedelic research, education and advocacy organization. Currently, in anticipation of FDA approval for MDMA-assisted therapy in late 2024, he is in the process of co-founding InnerMost, a public benefit corporation that is creating a Center of Excellence in New York City, for delivery of and practicum training in psychedelic-assisted therapy, with a mission to establish and promote sustainable best practices and to remove socioeconomic barriers to high-quality treatment access.

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