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Saybrook University

747 Front Street (between

Broadway and Pacific),

3rd floor, San Francisco

February 6th, 20145:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Invitation by RVSP list only. Limited places. To register, write

to: Steve Hart shart@saybrook.edu

Round table: The Therapeutic Potentials of

Ayahuasca, moderated by Stanley Krippner

1. Presentation of the book: by Beatriz Labate, PhD and

Clancy Cavnar, PsyD

2. Ayahuasca and PTSD, by Jessica L. Nielson, PhD

This presentation will review the epidemiology of Post-

Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the current and

candidate treatments for PTSD, and the pharmacology

of ayahuasca as a potential new therapeutic candidate.

PTSD is a disorder that is affecting a growing number of

individuals. Recently, there has been an increase in the

number of veterans returning home from duty who are

struggling with the symptoms of PTSD. The syndrome is

difcult to treat and many victims have been unsatisedwith the currently approved therapies. Alternative

treatments for the disorder are being explored, with

research and anecdotal reports indicating the potential

Launching of the book

The Therapeutic Use of AyahuascaCo-edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Clancy Cavnar

Springer, 2014

benets of ayahuasca for treatment of PTSD. The authors

propose a bioinformatics approach to characterize

the complex syndrome of PTSD to facilitate rapid and

accurate diagnosis and treatment. This approach will help

identify risk factors for treatment-resistant PTSD, as well

as provide a more thorough and accurate assessment of

appropriate therapeutic strategies, including ayahuasca.

3. The therapeutic use of Yag among the Cametsa o

Alto Putumayo, Colombia, by Celina M. De Leon, BA

This presentation aims to enhance our understanding of the

diversity of ayahuasca use by exploring less internationally

known modalities. It will focus on the therapeutic use of

yag (ayahuasca) from the perspective of the Cametsa

indigenous medical tradition of the Sibundoy Valley, of

the Alto Putumayo of Colombia. It will offer an overview

about both the ceremonies (limpias, aromatics, and music)

and the core considerations that inform treatment protocolsTwo case studies relating to heroin addiction and Reex

Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) will be presented and

explored. These cases suggest that the therapeutic application

of ayahuasca for treating conditions that are not addressed

well by western medicine is an area that justies further

research. It will be argued that including the perspective of

traditional healers may offer an important contribution to

facilitate understanding of ayahuascas mechanism of action

and therapeutic potentials. This presentation is based on

the presenters ve year long ongoing apprenticeship with

Taita Juan Agreda Chindoy, a Camentsa traditional healer

with over 25 years of experience. Taita Juan is perhapsbest known internationally for having been detained by US

Customs ofcials and charged with possession with intent

to distribute a Schedule 1 drug (ayahuasca) in 2010.

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Stanley Krippner,Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at Say-

brook University, San Francisco, a Fellow in four APA divisions,

and past-president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he

was director of the Kent State University Child Study Center,

Kent OH, and the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research

Laboratory, in Brooklyn NY. Krippner is a pioneer in the study

of consciousness, having conducted research in the areas of

dreams, hypnosis, shamanism, and dissociation, often from a

cross-cultural perspective, and with an emphasis on anomalous

phenomena that seem to question mainstream paradigms. He

is the co-author of Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work With

Them(SUNY Press, 2002), Perchance to Dream(Nova Science,

2009), Mysterious Minds (Praeger, 2010), Debating Psychic

Experience (Praeger, 2010), Demystifying Shamans and Their

World (Imprint Academic, 2011), The Voice of Rolling Thun-

der (Inner Traditions, 2012); and is the co-editor of Varieties of

Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientifc Evidence(APA,

2000), as well as dozens of other books. He also has over 1000

published, scholarly articles, chapters, and papers.

Beatriz Caiuby Labate has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropologyfrom the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her

main areas of interest are the study of psychoactive substanc-

es, drug policy, shamanism, ritual, and religion. She is Visiting

Professor at the Drug Policy Program of the Center for Eco-

nomic Research and Education (CIDE) in Aguascalientes, Mex

ico. She is also Research Associate at the Institute of Medica

Psychology, Heidelberg University, co-founder of the Nucleus

for Interdisciplinary Studies of Psychoactives (NEIP), and edi-

tor of NEIPs website (http://www.neip.info). She is author, co-

author, and co-editor of nine books, one special-edition journal

and several peer-reviewed articles. For more information, seehttp://bialabate.net/

Clancy Cavnar is currently completing her postdoctoral hours

in clinical psychology at the Marin Treatment Center, a metha

done clinic in San Rafael, California. In 2011 she received a

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) from John F. Kennedy

University in Pleasant Hill, California, with a dissertation on gay

and lesbian peoples experiences with ayahuasca. She attended

New College of the University of South Florida and completed

an undergraduate degree in liberal arts in 1982. She attended

the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a Master o

Fine Art in painting in 1985. In 1993, she received a certifcate insubstance abuse counseling from the extension program of the

University of California at Berkeley and, in 1997, she graduated

with a Masters in Counseling from San Francisco State Univer

sity. In that same year, she got in touch with the Santo Daime

in the USA, and has traveled several times to Brazil since then

She is also co-editor, with Beatriz Caiuby Labate, of two books

Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond (Oxford Uni

versity Press, in press), and Prohibition, Religious Freedom

and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Springer

in press).

Jessica Nielson received her BS in biology from Cal PolyPomona in 2003, and her PhD in anatomy and neurobiology from

the University of California, Irvine, in 2010. During her doctora

work, she resolved a century-old controversy regarding the fate

of the corticospinal tract following spinal cord injury, demonstrat

ing defnitively that this important motor pathway survives injury

and is available in chronic cases for therapeutic interventions to

promote regeneration and functional recovery. She joined the

Brain and Spinal Injury Center at the University of California

San Francisco, in 2011 as a postdoctoral scholar, where she has

been developing a novel bioinformatics approach to character

ize syndromic features of spinal cord injury, with future plans to

apply this approach to traumatic brain injury and post-traumaticstress disorder.

Celina M. De Leonis an independent researcher based in Oak

land, California. She received a BA in Human Biology from Stan

ford University and was a US/India Fulbright Scholar in 2007

She is the co-founder of Posada Natura in Costa Rica, an inter-

disciplinary healing arts center dedicated to the practice and re

search of traditional medical systems (www.posadanatura.com)

In 2009, she was initiated as a formal apprentice of Taita Juan

Agreda Chindoy from the Cametsa indigenous lineage of the

Sibundoy Valley, Alto Putumayo, Colombia.

Biographies:

For more information, see:

http://www.springer.com/biomed/

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