Tim Read | “Psychedelic Narratives: Framing the Wild”
What are the big ideas that have underpinned our work with psychedelics over the years and how have they stood the test of time? How can we best hold space for those that we accompany in psychedelic journeys and how do we hold space for ourselves in a way that is nourishing and growthful? How can we support genuine transformation and what does that even mean? What did we learn in the LSD era about human potential and what happened to the rebel wisdom, the wildness of that first generation of psychonauts? What do psychedelics show us about our place in the cosmos and the formative layers of our psyche? How did therapeutic work with psychedelics develop? What is different about the recent psychedelic renaissance? How does work with psychedelics shape our understanding of psyche and psychiatry? Where may we be heading as legislative frames change in some countries? And what may be lurking in the shadow?
Bio
Tim spent 30 years in the NHS as a psychiatrist, mostly leading emergency services at the Royal London Hospital. The quest for tools of radical change led firstly to a psychoanalytic training followed by a 5 year training with Stanislav Grof. Tim has been facilitating holotropic breathwork retreats since 2009 and from 2017 has been involved as clinical supervisor and therapist in numerous clinical trials in the UK. More recently Tim is involved in the Australian psychedelic emergence, particularly the psilocybin / EoL study in Melbourne and the high dose psilocybin / depression study in Sydney.
Together with Maria Papaspyrou, he co-facilitates the Depth Relational Process IPT 2-year training. Tim is author of Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth, co-editor with Jules Evans of Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency and co-editor with Maria Papaspyrou of Psychedelics and Psychotherapy published in 2021.
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Tim ReadTim spent 30 years in the NHS as a psychiatrist, mostly leading emergency services at the Royal London Hospital. The quest for tools of radical change led firstly to a psychoanalytic training followed by a 5 year training with Stanislav Grof. Tim has been facilitating holotropic breathwork retreats since 2009 and from 2017 has been involved as clinical supervisor and therapist in numerous clinical trials in the UK. More recently Tim is involved in the Australian psychedelic emergence, particularly the psilocybin / EoL study in Melbourne and the high dose psilocybin / depression study in Sydney. Together with Maria Papaspyrou, he co-facilitates the Depth Relational Process IPT 2-year training. Tim is author of Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth, co-editor with Jules Evans of Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency and co-editor with Maria Papaspyrou of Psychedelics and Psychotherapy published in 2021. Tim Read is a psychiatrist also trained in holotropic breathwork. They co-founded IPT after co-editing the book Psychedelics and Psychotherapy, published in 2021. Tim is also author of Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth and co-editor with Jules Evans of Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency. Maria has co-edited Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine with Chiara Baldini and David Luke. Maria and Tim both provide therapy supervision internationally in clinical trials and organisations that support the introduction of expanded states in service of healing and growth and support the growing community of professionals in the UK under their work at IPT. Dr Tim Read is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author based in London. After degrees in neuroscience and medicine, he was consultant liaison psychiatrist at the Royal London Hospital for 20 years also heading the crisis intervention service and developing psychological treatments for psychiatric emergencies. He has completed trainings in psychoanalytic psychotherapy (IGA) and transpersonal psychology with Stanislav Grof (GTT). He has been a certified facilitator of holotropic breathwork since 2007. Tim is extensively involved in clinical research of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and with Maria Papaspyrou is co-facilitating the Depth Relational Process IPT 2-year training. Tim is author of Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth, co-editor with Jules Evans of Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency and co-editor with Maria Papaspyrou of Psychedelics and Psychotherapy.
