Psychedelics and Art Therapy – A Trauma-Informed Manual for Somatic Self-Discovery – buch
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This book serves as a vital resource for clinicians, therapists, and individuals aiming to integrate their psychedelic experiences through the transformative practice of Art Therapy. Rooted in a Trauma‑informed approach, Psychedelics and Art Therapy: A Trauma‑Informed Manual for Somatic Self Discovery offers guidance on navigating the profound psychological and emotional shifts that often accompany such journeys.
This book combines creative exercises with meditation and neuroscientific insights to show how Art Therapy can effectively reroute neural pathways, fostering sustained emotional well‑being and personal growth. In an era where the underground market of psychedelic therapy is often unsafe and commercially driven, this book advocates for a sustainable approach to healing that prevents habitual reliance on these substances. Authored by an Art Therapist with over a decade of specialized experience in psychedelic preparation and integration, this book transcends the underground stigmas associated with drug culture, offering a trusted path to healing grounded in therapeutic practices that honor transpersonal and Indigenous wisdom.
As the conversation around Psychedelics in therapy evolves, this essential guide provides a structured and compassionate approach to integration and healing, ensuring long‑term personal empowerment and inner well‑being.
Part 1: Laying the Foundation 1. What Is Art Therapy?
2. Theory and History of Art and Non-Ordinary States
3. Transpersonal Psychology, Psychedelics and Art
4. Psychedelic Art
5. Why People Seek Altered States
6. Ways Non-Ordinary States are Achieved
7. Dreamwork
8. Reclaiming the Ancient Practice of Kundalini Yoga
9. The Difference Between an Entheogen and Synthetic Psychedelic
10. Is Ketamine a Psychedelic?
11. What to Expect During a Psychedelic Journey
12. Psychedelic Therapy: Three Stages
13. Neuroscience & Psychedelics
14. Indigenous Perspectives on Healing and Medicinal Plant Spirits
15. What is Trauma-Informed Therapy Using a Harm-Reduction Lens?
16. Three-Stage Model of Trauma Therapy
17. Suicide and Psychedelics
Part 2: The Process
1. Preparing for a Psychedelic Experience
2. The Importance of Grounding After Psychedelics
3. Creating Safety & Strengthening Resource
4. Connecting to the Spirit of the Experience
5. Falling in Love With Self
6. Understanding our Attachment Styles
7. Creating Healthy Connections
8. Integrating Our Shadow Side
9. Choose Your Life
„The book of Charmaine Husum is a valuable contribution to the important subject of integration and healing by building a bridge between the work with psychedelics and art therapy. As an art therapist with extensive experience with trauma work, she is providing the theoretical background of psychedelic work and art therapy combined with practical creative exercises and meditations supporting the integration of experiences in non-ordinary states of consciousness. The use of art as an instrument of integration has been part of my psychedelic research since the early years in Prague, Czech Republic and is still an important part of my contemporary holotropic work and our training with breathwork (Grof ® Breathwork) and psychedelics www.grof-legacy-training.com. Her book on psychedelics and art therapy can offer important guidelines for the work of therapists and for anybody who wishes to use art therapy as an instrument to deepen the integration of psychedelic experiences.“
Stanislav Grof, MD,PHD, Author of The Way of the Psychonaut
Brigitte Grof, PhD, Author of Holotropic Art-Images from Hidden Worlds
„Psychedelics and Art Therapy brings together two healing traditions in a clear, comprehensive and constructive way. It finds a nice balance between theoretical context and clinical practicality. It offers a unique blend of art therapy, meditation and neuroscience, specifically tailored to the integration of psychedelic experiences into daily life. As a workbook, it has an important place as an adjunct in working with a therapist and will be useful as a self-help guide for those seeking healing and growth on their own. But there’s also food aplenty here for both beginning therapist and experienced veteran.“
Bruce Tobin, PhD, RCC, ATR(BC) founder of TheraPsil (2019) Advocacy for patient access to medical psilocybin. Charter & Honorary Life Member BC Art Therapy Assn.
„Psychedelics and Art Therapy offers a thorough foundation in how to structure psychedelic assisted art therapy, as well as describing the persons and traditions associated with this emerging healing practice. Styled as a manual for self-discovery, Husum’s book emphasizes a trauma informed approach incorporating the creation of a safe, supportive environment for psychedelic experiences, and promoting empowerment, choice, and informed consent to avoid re-traumatization. She emphasizes the importance of harm reduction, noting the risk for repressed trauma memories to emerge, and offers guidelines to prepare for a psychedelic session to minimize negative outcomes and increase potential benefits. This book will be an invaluable resource for those undertaking a course of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy or for art therapists, psychologists, and counselors who support persons through an experience with psychedelic substances.“
Susanne F. Fincher, MA, LPC, ATR-BC
„Charmaine Husum’s Psychedelics and Art Therapy impresses with how much information is provided and is more than the description portrays. It is evident mountains of work has been done and the book covers so many variables in the processes of trauma, psychedelics, art, spirituality, altered states of consciousness, indigenous religious practices, and more. The information is very informative. I especially appreciate information on bad trips and cautions on usage of various substances. These topics are not readily talked about. Husum has opened the way for them to be named, recognized, and dealt with.“
Marilyn Clark, LCPC
„This groundbreaking book is a must read for therapists navigating the new frontiers of art therapy and psychedelics. Husum has written a very readable comprehensive workbook on non-ordinary states of consciousness, psychedelics, and the use of meditation, breath work, and specifically the value and role for Art therapy in this field. Husum advocates for a safe trauma informed approach, and she is exceedingly thoughtful regarding the legal and ethical aspects within the larger historical and medical context of using drugs for healing, personal growth, and therapy. Husum is aware of the value and historical use of plants in sacred and healing practices and the impact of the current psychedelic tourism has on Indigenous cultures. Charmaine Husum’s book will be of value for therapists and practitioners who wish to integrate meditation and creative explorations in the field of psychedelics.“
Monica Carpendale, BFA, DVATI, RCAT, BCATR, HLM, Professor Emeritus, Kutenai Art Therapy Institute.
Charmaine Husum is an Art Therapist, Somatic Counselor, and Kundalini yoga and meditation instructor specializing in supporting those healing from trauma and training others in using Art Therapy within the psychedelic healing space.
| Gewicht | 0.376 kg |
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| Größe | 25.3 × 20.3 × 0.11 cm |
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