Blog
Exploring the Potential of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
This one-day conference provides a research-backed overview of psychedelic-assisted therapies, clarifying safe and effective integration into mental health and addiction services. We will examine their healing potential through psychodynamic, biochemical, somatic, relational, and spiritual lenses. Dr. Eva Altobelli Discusses the mental health and addiction epidemic, limited efficacy of current treatment and research indicating the potential benefit of psychedelic medicine. Clinical description of ketamine therapy as [...]
Returning to the Fire: A Story of Psychedelic Healing Across Time
From the first humans who painted visions onto cave walls, to today’s clinical trials with psilocybin and MDMA, our species has always sought meaning, healing, and connection through extraordinary states of consciousness. What we now call “psychedelic medicine” is not a modern invention—it’s a remembering. A return. A fire that’s never fully gone out. The story begins long before there were borders, empires, or even language [...]
Humanizing Psychiatry and Alternative Treatment Options
Psychiatry can get a bad reputation as psychiatrists we are relegated to the role of pill pushers. I know many of us do work that way, with a quick conversation and then out comes the prescription pads. On some level, that has been dictated by the insurance industry, which will only compensate a short medication management visit and not compensate at all if medications are not [...]
Brave New Medicine: Ketamine’s Promise and Pitfalls
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World describes a futuristic society pacified by a daily dose of soma—a drug that ensures collective compliance and emotional numbness at the expense of curiosity, dissent, and authentic feeling. As an addiction psychiatrist and clinician who offers Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), I often find myself reflecting on the parallels between Huxley’s vision and the rapidly expanding, commercialized use of ketamine in modern psychiatry. [...]
On Time, Space, and Being Human
Space, Time, & Einstein Lately I’ve been reading Einstein’s biography, where he talks about space, time, mass, and energy in such creative ways. He describes how space and time cannot be defined without each other—how they are interwoven, inseparable. This led me to reflect on how we, too, exist within the fabric of time. Not just the hours on a clock or the phases of a [...]
Integrative Psychiatry: Remembering the Soul of Our Work
The word psychiatry carries a history that most of us rarely pause to consider. Its roots trace back to the Medieval Latin psychiatria, which itself is woven from two Greek words: psykhē, meaning mind or soul, and iatreia, meaning healing or care. Built into the very language is an ancient understanding that this field was always meant to tend to the soul. And yet, somewhere [...]