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Psychedelic Integration

Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

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Psychedelic Integration

By: Marc Aixalà, Jose Carlos Bouso - foreword
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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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. Aixalá 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 Aixalá 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, Aixalá 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 audiobook, Aixalá 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.

This audiobook is expertly read by Peter Noble, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Mike Thal.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Marc Aixalà (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
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good book overall, but not great. pretty biased, but worth a listen. learned a few new things like "levels interview" and sydney cohen focus on side effects of lsd.

it mentions 3 cultural traditions (shamanism, hasidic judaism and buddhism) but does not consider others.

it started promising as an overall balanced synthesizing book of multiple views and cultures. but towards the end it sounded more and more as marketing for holotropic breathwork, maybe because the author is trained in the modality. it went from "knowing the source of your pain is important " in therapy to "what happened is not important but treating symptoms is the best we can do".
it is a marketing stunt for his method where he combines psychoanalitic therapy with cbt and holotropic breathwork.
all the cliffhangers of the persoanl stories were the most annoying and they break the narrative, but keep you listening.

good but biased and strategic

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This ended up, after the first 4-5 chapters, as nothing but the author’s boot-licking psychophantic praise for Constructivism as a philosophy, psychology and praxis. If that’s your thing, then say so in the material that market the book.

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