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Webinar: Psilocybin-assisted Therapy for End-of-Life Distress with Dr Gabby Agin-Liebes (USA)
This is a recording from our webinar on 28th April 2021.
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Renewed interest in the therapeutic effects of psychedelics such as psilocybin has driven a rich array of academic research over the past two decades. In 2016 researchers at New York University (NYU) and John Hopkins University co-published two landmark studies reporting on the effects of a single dose of psilocybin-assisted therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression associated with a cancer diagnosis. In the NYU study, Agin-Liebes et al (2020) found that at the 4.5 year follow-up 60–80% of participants continued to meet criteria for clinically significant antidepressant or anxiolytic responses. Participants overwhelmingly (71–100%) attributed positive life changes to the psilocybin-assisted therapy experience and rated it among the most personally meaningful and spiritually significant experiences of their lives. These findings suggest that psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy can occasion spiritually salient experiences and holds promise in promoting long-term relief from cancer-related existential and psychiatric distress.
Dr. Gabby Agin-Liebes is a clinical psychologist and NIH-funded researcher at UC San Francisco. She was the lead investigator of the long-term follow-up study at NYU, which garnered media attention in several news outlets including Newsweek and CNN.
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