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SUMMARY:Pat Song | “Erotic Feelings In Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: What Practitioners Tell Us, And Implications For Practice”
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSexual boundary violations by psychedelic practitioners are a recurring and serious problem. The aim of this psychodynamic study is to identify how erotic transference and countertransference (ETCT) can emerge in psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) and how to reduce risk of harms. To this end I have interviewed, thus far, 22 PAT practitioners and participants about their experiences of ETCT.This presentation will be in four parts. First, I will briefly review a psychodynamic framework for working safely and therapeutically with ETCT and selected interview themes. Next, I will present material on how intimate relationships can, under some conditions, be strained by PAT use in one partner. The third segment will cover some of the challenges of therapeutic touch and ETCT for the practitioner. In the last segment we will think together about some implications for practice, especially in regards to management of boundaries and therapeutic touch. For example, preparation should include an assessment of the participant’s primary relationship and discussion of possibilities with erotic energy, material, and transference. Each part will be followed by group discussion where I hope we can all share ideas and learn from each other.\nIn preparation for Pat’s talk please watch her talk at the last Breaking Convention conference – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sydg4dbjBU\nAnd download the paper – “Teaching Psychiatric Trainees to Respond to Sexual and Loving Feelings: The Supervisory Challenge by Nancy Bridges available here – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3330501\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio\n\nPat Song, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and educator practicing psychodynamic psychotherapy and conducting qualitative research on experiences of erotic transference/countertransference in psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT). She has presented case studies and a psychodynamic model for working therapeutically with erotic feelings in PAT to practitioners and students in the US, Canada, and Europe. Recent presentations have been at the Columbia School of Social Work, Breaking Convention, Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research, ADEPT, and a supervision study group for The OPEN Foundation. She has over 30 years of professional experience in a range of settings, including a Harvard cocaine addiction treatment research project, HIV prevention, a military college, and clinical training at a Harvard Medical School public health teaching hospital.\n\n
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