Nadav Liam Modlin & Carolina Maggio | “From Cure to Care: The Realities and Fantasies of Psychedelic Therapy”

“Care is about what two people can do for each other if they don’t provide remedies” Adam Philips

Renewed medical interest in psychedelic therapy as a potential treatment for so-called ‘treatment resistant’ mental health conditions presents a unique opportunity to examine the biopsychosocial frameworks informing how mental-health care systems, clinicians and patients think about psychological healing, change or recovery. The associated conscious and unconscious dispositions and assumptions held by both clinicians and patients guide attitudes towards psychopathology, the provision of care and indeed, the patients’ perception of the effectiveness of the treatment.

Drawing from psychoanalytic and trauma-informed models of treatment, this lecture explores the idea of Cure in psychedelic therapy not only as a destination marked by the reduction of symptoms but rather as the patients’ newfound ability to Care for their internal world and lived-experience. Correspondingly, this lecture will explore the therapist experience of delivering psychedelic therapy in research settings, discussing the unique challenges and opportunities of the role, the dynamics of the transference and working as a therapy pair to further elucidate the realities and fantasies of psychedelic therapy.

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Nadav Liam Modlin

Nadav Liam Modlin (MBACP) is a psychological therapist, research associate and lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London. With an interest in psychopharmacology and clinical expertise in treating psychological trauma, at the IoPPN Liam works as a research therapist, clinical investigator and therapist trainer on studies exploring the safety and efficacy of psychedelics. Liam also conducts trauma-focused qualitative research investigating patients perspectives around symptoms, self-management, and experience of currently available and novel treatments for psychological trauma. His lectures at the IoPPN explore psychotherapeutic models in clinical trials investigating the safety and efficacy of psychedelics, the potential applications of psychedelic-assisted therapy in military populations and psychotherapy in MDD and PTSD. He is also the co-founder of the Maudsley Psychedelic Society Harm Reduction ‘Integration’ Group. Based in London, Liam has a private counselling & psychotherapy practice and has also worked in various NHS mental health services delivering psychodynamic psychotherapy and as a team Lead.

Carolina Maggio

Carolina Maggio (MBACP) is a psychological therapist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London. She works on studies exploring the safety and efficacy of psychedelics such as psilocybin, MDMA and 5-MeO-DMT, in patient populations such as PTSD and MDD. As part of her work in psychedelic research, Carolina works as mentor and therapist trainer, as well as facilitator of the Maudsley Psychedelic Society Harm Reduction & Integration Group. With a relational approach to counselling and psychotherapy, her private practice is focused on understanding and making use of the connection between trauma, transpersonal experience and psychospiritual development. Appreciating the transformative potential of psychological crisis, her work also explores trauma recovery through the use of creativity and imagination, as a vehicle to integrate the experience of non-ordinary states of consciousness.

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