Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP)

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There's a therapy which didn't show up when I searched for it here. I believe it has great potential for treating (treatment resistant) Complex Relational Trauma Response/C-PTSD. It's called Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP).

The focus of PSIP is to maximize the relational and autonomic healing capacity of psychedelic medicine to treat complex, childhood developmental trauma. The PSIP modality is a next generation, primary consciousness oriented psychotherapy. It focuses on the client's personal, biographical, human experience instead of aiming for transcendence or unity consciousness.

In a newsletter I got from the PS Institute is stated that: "Spiritual development cannot undo early childhood, developmental trauma such as insecure attachment. You can know the face of god while still not being able to be in a relationship." From what I understand about PSIP's application, these compounds are used to create selective inhibition: suspending self-management to access the body's innate healing mechanisms. Instead of letting the client just deal with what comes up on their own, the therapist remains engaged with them, thus creating corrective relational experiences.

I have both positive and negative experiences with the interaction with lay people while under the influence of psychedelics. From these, I'd say it has both an immense positive and negative potential to interact while defenses are lowered this way. It has been enormously frustrating to not be able to find anyone coming at it from an attachment trauma informed perspective. This is it, was my immediate response when I discovered PSIP. Unfortunately I've been waiting for a long time for it becoming available in my country or a neighboring country. It seems it's still very much concentrated in the US.

One of the pioneers of this modality, Saj Razvi, has published a lot of video's. Also from people undergoing treatment. They say more than words, but a TW is appropriate for those. Some of those are very intense.

More info at: https://www.psychedelicsomatic.org/
For video's see: https://vimeo.com/psychedelicsomatic
and here: https://www.youtube.com/@psychedelicsomatic