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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 [email protected]
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/
pharmacology+%26+toxicology/book/978-3-642-40425-2