Events

Webinar | Thursday June 12th 2025, 6PM UTC+3
Victoria Litman: The Necessity of Regulating Psychedelic Spiritual Care
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The Psykedeelit 2025 conference – Registration now open and preliminary program available! - Registration for our Psykedeelit 2025 conference taking place on October 2–4 is now open! There are limited seats and the previous edition sold out, so ensure your place by registering in Psyty's web store. The preliminary program for the conference has also been published and is available at the conference page. The registration fee is… Read more

Webinar June 17th 2025 Jules Evans: The Psychedelic Industry’s Entity Dilemma - Sometimes, even quite often, people encounter ‘entities’ on psychedelics, which may give them messages, heal them or sometimes seem to threaten them or cause them harm. This presents a dilemma for the budding psychedelic therapy industry and the related field of research regarding informed consent. Don’t mention the entities, and people might express ontological shock… Read more

Webinar June 12th 2025 Victoria Litman: The Necessity of Regulating Psychedelic Spiritual Care - Spiritual or religious elements are a relevant part of the effects of psychedelics. Some people have argued that in addition to the more typical mental health professionals, psychedelic care also needs people who focus on the aforementioned elements – what has been called psychedelic chaplains. One of the people who has been calling for such… Read more

Webinar May 22nd 2025 Helena Aicher: Psychedelic therapy – refining the claim of a paradigm shift - The evolving role of psychedelics in mental health treatment is often referred to as the "psychedelic renaissance" or even a "paradigm shift" in psychiatry. But does this resurgence truly represent a revolutionary change, might it be better understood as an integration of existing therapeutic approaches and perspectives? On Thursday May 22nd at 6PM (UTC+3), in… Read more

Webinar Tue Apr 29th 2025 Gül Dölen: Reopening critical periods with psychedelics (and why we gave octopuses MDMA). - What if the brain’s most sensitive windows for learning and change—once thought to close forever—could be reopened? And what if psychedelics held one possible key for such reopenings?  On Tuesday April 29th 2025 at 6PM UTC+3, in a webinar lecture organized by the Finnish Association for Psychedelic Research, neuroscientist Gül Dölen will share her research… Read more

Webinar Mon April 7th 2025 Anna Becker: LSD for depression and the effects of SSRIs and ketanserin on psychedelics - At least in the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, LSD was almost synonymous with “psychedelic drugs”. In the current second major wave of psychedelic research, psilocybin has received much more attention than LSD. Two relevant reasons for this are the shorter effects of psilocybin and the negative stigma attached to LSD. But as… Read more

Webinar Tue Mar 18th 2025 Débora González: Therapeutic potential of ayahuasca in grief - Can ayahuasca be helpful for dealing with grief? This question will be explored in a webinar lecture organized by the Finnish Association for Psychedelic Research (Psykedeelitutkimusyhdistys) on Tue March 18, 2025, at 6PM UTC+2. Drawing from a clinical study with 82 participants, psychologist Débora González will share the principal outcomes of the study. We will… Read more

Webinar Thu Feb 27th 2025 Esenia Cassidy: Psychedelics and attachment – the fundamentals, implications, and new frontiers - Attachment theory investigates the role of early relationships in shaping an individual’s later emotional bonds and behaviour. What are its implications for the effects of psychedelics? In a webinar lecture organized by the Finnish Association for Psychedelic Research on Thursday Feb 27th, 6–8PM UTC+2, interdisciplinary researcher Esenia Cassidy will present a talk that delves into… Read more

Webinar Dec 9th, 2024 Max Wolff: What competencies should psychedelic therapists have and develop? - To practice psychedelic therapy safely and effectively, practitioners need a broad range of competences. Many of these overlap with what is needed from regular psychotherapy practices, but there are also psychedelic-specific areas. Psychologist and psychotherapist Max Wolff, who leads MIND Foundation’s Augmented Psychotherapy Training (APT) program, will present on the topic on Monday Dec 9th… Read more

Webinar Nov 18th, 2024 Balázs Szigeti: Is psychedelic citizen science the future? - One of the key challenges related to researching psychedelics is the high cost involved. One way to get around this challenge is by citizen science which involves the active participation of the public in the scientific process. Psychedelic science stands to benefit significantly from this approach due to the widespread use of these substances. Millions… Read more