Psychedelic Medicine at the End of Life

Dying without Fear

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvRichard Louis Miller,Dr. Richard Louis Miller

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A cutting-edge exploration of the role of psychedelics in the end-of-life experience• Outlines 10 steps for dying gracefully with the help of psychedelics, including how to navigate the complex legal landscape and find the right guide and therapy• Looks at clinical studies of psychedelics from UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and NYU School of Medicine that show dramatic lessening of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill patients• Shares wisdom from experts on psychedelic research and palliative care, including Roland Griffiths, Katherine MacLean, Ira Byock, and Anthony BossisExamining the evolving landscape that is found around end-of-life psychedelic care, Dr. Richard Louis Miller, a clinical psychologist for more than half a century, looks at how LSD, MDMA, psilocybin, and ayahuasca can be vital tools in allowing individuals in all stages of life to confront fears of dying and, in so doing, lead richer lives.Miller shares wisdom from experts on the frontiers of psychedelic research and palliative care—including Roland Griffiths, Katherine MacLean, Ira Byock, and Anthony Bossis—and examines cutting-edge studies from Johns Hopkins, UCLA, and NYU School of Medicine that show dramatically decreased anxiety in terminally ill patients through the use of psychedelics. He explores how different substances can help the dying overcome their end-of-life distress. He also provides testimony from researchers and patients participating in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy that helps convey the experience of ego death at the heart of the psychedelic experience.Miller outlines 10 steps for dying gracefully, without fear, with the help of psychedelics. He examines how to navigate the complex legal landscape and find the right guide, dose, and therapy. He also includes reflections from key figures in the psychedelic community as well as some of his own psychedelically informed mystical and near-death experiences.Revealing psychedelics as a portal of transformation, Miller shows how they are singularly valuable in helping individuals face the end of life with courage and serenity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-12-19
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagInner Traditions Bear and Company
MedarbetareDoblin,Rick
ISBN9781644119815

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Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D., has been a clinical psychologist for more than 60 years. He is host of the internet radio broadcast Mind Body Health & Politics, the founder of the internationally acclaimed Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program, and creator of the Health Sanctuary at Wilbur Hot Springs. He has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan and Stanford University and an advisor on the President’s Commission on Mental Health. He lives in Fort Bragg and Wilbur Hot Springs, California.

FOREWORD BY RICK DOBLIN, Ph.D.PROLOGUEPART ONETHE CASE FOR PSYCHEDELICSAT THE END OF LIFECHAPTER 1Ego DeathCHAPTER 2From Taboo to Trials: Pioneers of the PsychedelicRenaissanceCHAPTER 3Studies of Psychedelics for End-of-Life Distress:Proof of Safety and EfficacyCHAPTER 4Mechanism of Action: How Psychedelics Help the DyingOvercome End-of-Life DistressCHAPTER 5Understanding and Treating End-of-Life DistressPART TWOTHE STEPS TO DYING GRACEFULLYSTEP 1Confronting DeathSTEP 2Discerning Candidacy forPsychedelic-Assisted PsychotherapySTEP 3 Navigating the Legal LandscapeSTEP 4Selecting the Guide, Dose, and Therapy TypeSTEP 5Managing Set and SettingSTEP 6 SurrenderingSTEP 7Integrating the InsightsSTEP 8Reckoning with the AfterlifeSTEP 9Living FullySTEP 10Dying GracefullyReconnecting in an Age of SeparationEPILOGUEThe Way ForwardAFTERWORDREFERENCESINDEX

“Miller writes personally, emotionally, wisely—unafraid to talk about dark and difficult parts of his own life and enthusiastic about every day remaining. Thoroughly grounded in his own close-to-death experiences and insights gained from his and others’ psychedelic journeys, his refreshing understanding of what dying brings to living is healthy and sane. He has given us a needed alternative to our current death-phobic and deathdenying usual narrative. He makes a strong case for benefitting from different psychedelic plants and fungi, most of which can reconnect people to the underlying unity in which some parts are being born and some dying but none are ever lost. This is a deeply uplifting, clear, and compassionate guide to dying and how psychedelics, used correctly, diminish our fears about approaching the door that opens at the end of our life.”