Event

Making Integration a Science-based Concept – Therapy, Counseling and Self-development

How has our understanding of “integration” developed in recent years? And how relevant is it for clinical practice? In this conceptual engineering talk I will do three things: (1) define the process and elements of integration for different fields of practice, (2)  demonstrate the pitfalls of the concept in the literature and with materials from a qualitative study of diverse users of psychedelics, (3) propose ways towards the operationalization of integration for research to better understand it in the future. 
I will argue that an more elaborated understanding of integration carries the potential to overcome pharmacological reductionism, romanticizing magic pill phantasies and a purely spiritualistic “consciousness medicine”. “Integration” can be the critical instrument to transform psychedelic experience into real life changes as well as an inspiration for therapy, self- and social development. 

Speakers

Executive Director

Dr. sc. hum. Henrik Jungaberle

MIND Foundation

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