The Ketamine Papers: Science, Therapy, and Transformation

Phil Wolfson, M.D., is Principal Investigator for a MAPS-Sponsored Phase 2, FDA approved 18-person study of MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for individuals with significant anxiety due to life threatening illnesses. His clinical practice with ketamine has informed his role in the development of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. Phil is a sixties activist, psychiatrist/psychotherapist, writer, practicing Buddhist and psychonaut who has lived in the Bay Area for 38 years. He is the author of Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death (2011, North Atlantic Books). In the 1980s, he participated in clinical research with MDMA (ecstasy). He has been awarded five patents for unique herbal medicines. He is a journalist and author of numerous articles on politics, transformation, psychedelics, consciousness and spirit, and was a founding member of the Heffter Research Institute. Phil has taught in the graduate psychology programs at JFK University, CIIS and the UCSF School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry.

Glenn Hartelius, PhD, is an internationally known scholar and thought leader in integral and transpersonal psychology who has recently been honored with the Abraham Maslow Award, one of the highest distinctions bestowed by the American Psychological Association. He teaches Attention Strategies workshops worldwide, coaches business leaders, edits a scientific journal, conducts research into novel aspects of consciousness and directs a new PhD specialization at the California Institute for Human Science.