Psychiatric Times May 13, 2024
Learning to use a psychedelic agent can be challenging when the protocols are not defined. Here’s how a psychiatrist got started.
A KETAMINE JOURNAL
Learning a completely new skill outside of a training program can be challenging and I found that to be the case with learning to do ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP).
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that was approved for use in 1970. It has been used off-label to treat psychiatric conditions. Ketamine is not technically a psychedelic—it affects different neurotransmitters than lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).
However, in sub-anesthetic doses, it allows individuals to enter a non-ordinary state of consciousness, similar to the states induced by the classic psychedelics.
For some, it works as an...
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