Examining the Psychedelic Renaissance Season 1 (Episode 7: Erika Dyck) | MAPS Canada Webinar

Описание: Our guest for the seventh episode of the webinar series will be professor and historian Erika Dyck who is a historian of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan and has been studying and writing about psychedelics for the past 15 years.

This episode will focus on the idea of psychedelic privilege and how the gendered nature of caretaking has affected our historical understandings of psychedelics, and the role of women in it's history. This episode will also look at the historical participation of women as wives to psychedelic practitioners, as caretakers in the therapeutic setting, and as patients or subjects, to consider how gender has affected our understanding of discovery as well as trauma and healing.

Bio: Erika Dyck is a professor and historian of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan who has been studying and writing about psychedelics for the past 15 years. Her work has been widely featured on radio, television, and print media, and she has been featured on a number of documentary films on the topic. She is the author or editor of 7 scholarly books, including: Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus (Johns Hopkins, 2008; University of Manitoba Press, 2011); and Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization and the Politics of Choice (University of Toronto, 2013), which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s award for Canadian non-fiction; and Managing Madness: the Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada (University of Manitoba Press, 2017), which won the Canadian Historical Association Prize for best book in Prairie History. She is the editor of A Culture’s Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada (2016), and co-editor of Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (2018).

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Examining the Psychedelic Renaissance: About The Series

We are in the middle of the psychedelic renaissance. With research projects and decriminalization proposals popping up across North America and with MDMA on the verge of approval as a treatment for PTSD, psychedelic therapy is on track to become the next major breakthrough in mental health care.

MAPS Canada has supported studies to develop psychedelics into safe and legal medical treatments since its formation in 2008. Currently, MAPS Canada is funding two separate studies on MDMA and cognitive processing therapy as a treatment for PTSD. Additionally, plans to fund studies that identify psychedelic treatments for eating disorders and others that involve Ibogaine are in the works.

To conduct and publish scientific research and education supporting the beneficial use of psychedelic medicines, MAPS Canada relies on public donations and fundraising initiatives. To support its mission MAPS Canada is launching a new webinar series, entitled “Examining The Psychedelic Renaissance”.

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Working with partners in government, business, and the community, MAPS Canada is committed to advancing psychedelic medicine by supporting scientific, multidisciplinary research; advocating for drug policy reform; offering public education; and supporting equitable access to legal and regulated psychedelic medicine in Canada.

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) was formed in the US in 1986, in response to the US Drug Enforcement Agency’s classification of MDMA as Schedule 1 substance, and has been developing medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics since then.

MAPS Canada was founded as a sister organization to MAPS in 2011, and is a registered Canadian non-profit organization. Based in Vancouver and with hundreds of volunteers from across Canada, MAPS Canada is moving forward to become the leading Canadian source of information, resources and advocacy regarding psychedelic medicine and related clinical research, education, and public policy.

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