Framing Psychedelic Integration: Alex Belser
Alexander Belser, MPhil, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, spoke during the event, "Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: The Curious Case of Integration."
Integration is a prominent feature of psychedelic clinical trials, therapeutic approaches, and psychedelic spiritualities. Yet, it seems that there are as many approaches and definitions of integration as there are integrators. This panel brought together three approaches to integration—a training model for integration by Dr. Alex Belser, an ethnographic study of an integration group in Birmingham, AL, by Dr. Lisa Gezon, and a set of psychometric scales that purport to assess what is being integrated, and into whom, by Dr. Tomas Frymann. This interdisciplinary panel explored the spiritual and therapeutic applications of integration, enrich our conceptions of integration in diverse settings, and trouble any guarantees about a single surefire integrative technique.
This event took place March 20, 2024.
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