Speaker Bio
Geoff Bathje, PhD is a licensed psychologist, professor, researcher, and drug policy reform advocate living in Chicago, USA. He is co-founder of the psychedelic non-profit Sana Healing Collective, where he provides ketamine-assisted therapy and utilizes a harm reduction approach to support individuals who have used psychedelics or other substances. His clinical work has focused primarily on substance use and addiction, trauma, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychosis. He has published frequently-cited articles on stigma of mental health and substance use issues, cultural competence, substance use and harm reduction, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. He has also co-authored and advocated for several pieces of legislation aimed at dismantling the war on drugs.
ICPR 2024 Abstract
Interrogating Integration
This symposium aims to provide a broad and balanced view of integration in psychedelic therapy. Integration is considered
An aspect largely been ignored by these critical voices is ‘integration’. Integration is ill-defined but broadly refers to the time after a psychedelic experience when an individual seeks to make meaning of this event. Integration is widely considered to be of key importance in securing success in psychedelic therapy. The process typically occurs soon after the psychedelic experience. Yet there is little definition of what integration should entail, who should perform it, or what the end goal is. It is widely assumed that integration is beneficial and it has been suggested that psychedelic therapy without integration is ‘unethical’.