Psychedelic Integration

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Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

By Marc Aixal

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Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness by Marc Aixal is a pioneering guidebook that explores the evolving field of psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration. Tracing the history from the 1960s to today, it explains therapeutic techniques and shares a clinician’s real-world insights into healing through psychedelic experiences.

The book introduces 11 metaphors for understanding integration and explains seven dimensions crucial to the process, which encompasses preparation, the session, and aftercare. Aixal highlights foundational practices such as rest and nutrition, spiritual rituals, embodied movement, and therapeutic frameworks like Gestalt therapy and Holotropic Breathwork. Compassionately addressing the challenges and potential trauma of psychedelic experiences, it features stories and artwork from patients’ integration journeys.
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This book is ideal for psychotherapists, integration practitioners, and anyone interested in the therapeutic use of psychedelics. It suits readers seeking a practical, compassionate, and research-informed approach to incorporating psychedelic experiences into personal or clinical growth.

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Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness is a trailblazing guidebook for anyone interested in psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration.

When psychologist and psychotherapist Marc B. Aixal began fielding questions from people around the world seeking help integrating their own psychedelic experiences, he couldn't find a singular source of collected research and support. What began as an attempt to help others became Psychedelic Integration, a work that traces the evolution of psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration research from the 1960s to the present moment, explains therapeutic techniques and outlines a clinician's real-world observations on the deep work of healing.

Written for practitioners and the generally curious, this book offers 11 metaphors for understanding integration and concisely explains the seven dimensions of integration, which Aixal sees as part of a process inextricably linked to preparation and the psychedelic session experience.

Grounded in the idea that integration work serves two main objectives: maximizing the benefits of a psychedelic experience and dealing with adverse effects, Aixal maintains that understanding why an individual seeks integration support can inform therapeutic techniques. Psychedelic Integration outlines foundational practices like rest and nutrition, spiritual approaches including water rituals and tarot, embodied techniques of dance and singing, and frameworks including Holotropic Breathwork, Gestalt therapy and integration circles.

The author acknowledges that psychedelic experiences can be difficult and even traumatic, and he confronts that reality with compassion. In this book, Aixal shares stories and artwork created by some of his patients as they progressed through their own integration journeys.

Psychedelic Integration is an essential companion for practitioners, their patients, and those seeking integration work not as a solution but as a tool for self and collective discovery.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780907791393

Publisher: Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 November 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S.

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Foreword by Jose Carlos Bouso

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 360

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Health & Wellness Marc Aixal Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Marc B. Aixalà is a telecommunications engineer, psychologist, psychotherapist and certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator specializing in supporting people who face challenging experiences with expanded states of consciousness. Since 2013, in collaboration with the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS), Aixalá has offered integration psychotherapy sessions for those seeking support after psychedelic experiences. At ICEERS, Aixalà also works to develop theoretical models of intervention and trains and supervises therapists. Aixalà has served as a team leader and trainer in emergency psychological assistance at Boom Festival through the Kosmicare harm reduction program. He also worked on the first-ever medical trial on the use of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression, a study chronicled in the 2018 documentary, “Magic Medicine.” He continues to work as a therapist in clinical trials researching psychedelic substances. Aixalà is trained in the therapeutic use of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness as well as in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD) by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Aixalà works as a psychologist in his private practice in Barcelona, Spain and offers trainings, lectures, and talks related to psychedelic psychotherapy and integration. José Carlos Bouso is a Clinical Psychologist with a PhD in Pharmacology. He developed his scientific actitives while at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Instituto de Investigación Biomédica IIB-Sant Pau de Barcelona, and the Instituto Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Médicas de Barcelona (IMIM). During this time, he developed studies about the therapeutic effects of MDMA (“ecstasy”) and psychopharmacological studies on the acute and neuropsychiatric long-term effects of many substances, both synthetic and plant origin. As the Scientific Director at the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS), José Carlos oversees studies on the potential benefits of psychoactive plants, principally cannabis, ayahuasca, and ibogaine, with the goal of improving public health. He is co-author of numerous scientific papers and several book chapters.