Workshop 1: “Psychedelics: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science”
(08. & 09. Oct. 2024, organised by PsychedELSI: https://psychedelsi.org/en/)
Workshop 2. “Transformative Psychedelic Experiences”
(10. & 11. Oct. 2024, organised by PsyTrans: https://www.psytrans.com/)
Location: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin Germany
Focus: The international research projects PsychedELSI and PsyTrans are presenting two consecutive workshops that explore the intersections of psychedelic research and therapy with philosophy. This event, hosted at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte in Berlin) will bring together leading experts in the fields of psychedelic research, therapy, neuropharmacology, psychology, psychiatry, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind (see programme below).
Outreach: The programme is complemented by apublic lecture by Laurie Ann Paul (Yale University) on “Transformative Psychedelic Experiences” (9th of October, Ostertaghaus, Philippstraße 12, 10115 Berlin, House 4, LectureHall 4, 1st floor). No registration is required for this lecture.
Attendance: Seating is limited. So if you are interested in participating as a guest in the workshops, please reach out to Adrian Kind (adrian.kind@charite.de) with Sascha Fink (sascha.fink@fau.de) and Dimitris Repantis (dimitris.repantis@charite.de) in CC until the 15th of September 2024. Decisions concerning the available seats will be communicated by the 18th of September. Preference will be given to those with an academic background. Attendance is 20€, food and drinks will not be provided. A streaming option is currently not in planning.
Programme:
Workshop 1: Psychedelics: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Di. 8.10:
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome (Repantis & Fink: PsychedELSI)
10:30 – 11:30 Timo Torsten Schmidt (Free University Berlin): “The systematic quantitative study of the phenomenology of altered states of consciousness”
11:30 – 12:30 Quill Kukla (Georgetown University Washington DC): “Agency, Ambivalence, and Uncertainty in Recreational Drug Use”
14:00 – 15:00 Brian Earp (University of Oxford / National University of Singapore): “Would MDMA-inspired love be real? How could you tell?”
15:00 – 16:00 Sascha Fink (FAU Erlangen): “Epistemology of self experimentation in the science of psychedelics”
16:30 – 17:00 Jack Lyons (University of Glasgow): “Psychedelics and justified belief”
18:00 – 19:00 Chiara Caporuscio (Charité Medical University Berlin): “Evidence-based practice in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy”
Mi. 9.10:
10:00–10:30 Welcome
10:30 – 11:30 Chris Letheby (University of Western Australia): “Learning from tripping and learning from reading”
11:30 – 12:30 Karen Yan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University): “Assessing Clinical Models for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy” (with Christina Ni)
14:00 – 15:00 Chris Timmermann (Imperial College London): “Mechanisms of Deconstruction and Reconstruction in the Psychedelic Experience”
15:00 – 16:00 Open Discussion
PUBLIC EVENING LECTURE (no registration required)
Ostertaghaus, Philippstraße 12, 10115 Berlin, House 4, LectureHall 4 (1st floor).
18:00 – 20:00 Laurie Ann Paul (Yale University): “Transformative Psychedelic Experiences”
Workshop 2: Transformative Psychedelic Experiences
Do. 10.10:
10:00–10:30: Welcome (Fink, Repantis, Yan: PsyTrans)
10:30–11:30: Nicholas Langlitz (The New School New York): “First-Person Methods in Psychedelic Research”
11:30 – 12:30 Christopher Poppe (Charité Medical University Berlin): “Expecting transformation? Empirical and normative analysis of prospective participants’ expectations in psychedelic trials”
14:30 – 15:30 Chris Bublitz (University of Hamburg): “The progressives‘ dilemma with psychedelic therapy”
15:30 – 16:30 Minsu Yoo (The New School New York): “Legitimizing Past Life Memories: Trauma as Collective Altered States of Consciousness”
17:00 – 18:00 Roy Salomon (Haifa University): “Experiencing trauma under altered states of consciousness”
Fr. 11.10:
10:00–11:00: Edward Jacobs (University of Oxford): “Transformations Supported and Transformations Interrupted: Patient Experiences in P-AT Trials”
11:00 – 12:00 Sascha Benjamin Fink (FAU Erlangen): “Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Informed consent or informed request?”
13:30 – 14:30 Ari Brouwer (University of Wisconsin – Michigan): “Psychedelics as models of self-transformation”
14:30 – 15:30 Panel Discussion: Transformative Experiences and Limits of Informed Consent