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Claudio Naranjo, MD

My Psychedelic Explorations

The Healing Power and Transformational Potential of Psychoactive Substances

Claudio Naranjo, MD

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Park Street Press,U.S.
24 December 2020

States of consciousness

Claudio Naranjo’s psychedelic autobiography with previously unpublished interviews and research papers

• Explores Dr. Naranjo’s pioneering work with MDMA, ayahuasca, cannabis, iboga, and psilocybin

• Shares his personal accounts of psychedelic sessions and experimentation, including his work with Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin and Leo Zeff

• Includes the author’s reflections on the spiritual aspects of psychedelics and his recommended techniques for controlled induction of altered states

In the time of the psychedelic pioneers, there were psychopharmacologists like Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, psychonauts like Aldous Huxley, and psychiatrists like Humphrey Osmond. Claudio Naranjo was all three at once. He was the first to study the psychotherapeutic applications of ayahuasca, the first to publish on the effects of ibogaine, and a long-time collaborator with Sasha Shulgin in the research behind Shulgin’s famous books. A Fulbright scholar and Guggenheim fellow, he worked with Leo Zeff on LSD-assisted therapy and Fritz Perls on Gestalt therapy. He was a presenter at the 1967 University of California LSD Conference and, 47 years later, gave the inaugural speech at the First International Conference on Ayahuasca in 2014. Across his career, Dr. Naranjo gathered more clinical experience in individual and group psychedelic treatment than any other psychotherapist to date. In this book, his final work, Dr. Naranjo shares his psychedelic autobiography along with previously unpublished interviews, session accounts, and research papers on the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, including MDMA, ayahuasca, cannabis, iboga, and psilocybin.

The book includes Naranjo’s reflections on the spiritual aspects of psychedelics and the healing transformations they bring, his philosophical explorations of how psychedelics act as agents of deeper consciousness, and his recommended techniques for controlled induction of altered states using different visionary substances. Naranjo’s work shows that psychedelics have the strongest potential for transforming and healing people over all therapeutic methods currently in use.

By: Claudio Naranjo MD
Imprint: Park Street Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781644110584
ISBN 10: 164411058X
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 24 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Jose Maria Fàbregas, M.D. prologue Psychedelics as a Transformational Resource 1 A Psychedelic Autobiography 2 Pharmacologically Induced Altered States of Consciousness 3 Interpersonal Psychedelics 4 Oneirophrenics 5 Psilocybin 6 Spiritual Aspects of the Psychedelic Experience 7 Matters Related to Method and Training 8 The Role of Psychedelics in a Policy for Consciousness APPENDICES Press Articles Research Articles About the Author Index

Claudio Naranjo, M.D. (1932-2019), was a well-known psychiatrist, philosopher, professor, and university researcher from Chile. He was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard, a Guggenheim fellow at Berkeley, a council member of the Education Policy Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute, and a professor at UC Santa Cruz, the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was a pioneer in the use of psychedelics for psychotherapy and was known for his long collaboration with Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin. The author of many articles, papers, and books, his legacy lives on through the Claudio Naranjo Foundation (Fundación Claudio Naranjo).

Reviews for My Psychedelic Explorations: The Healing Power and Transformational Potential of Psychoactive Substances

Claudio Naranjo was a profound inspiration to me and to so many others. Claudio helped train MAPS' first therapist team for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, for our study in Spain that began in 2000. Claudio's talk was the highlight of the recent World Ayahuasca Conference. Despite his health challenges, in his final days he indicated an interest in being involved in MAPS' psychedelic reconciliation project focused on Israelis and Palestinians who are taking ayahuasca and sometimes MDMA together. We honor Claudio's memory by continuing to work to develop MDMA and other psychedelics into prescription medicines, and beyond. * MAPS Founder Rick Doblin, Ph.D. *