Saturday - INSIGHT 2023

The German EPIsoDE-Trial – Study Design, Rationale and Current Status

Lea Mertens, M.Sc.

A Simple Conceptual Model of How Psychedelics Affect Psychological Flexibility (for Better or Worse)

Dr. rer. nat. Max Wolff

10:30 am

Break

Track 1

Treatment IV: Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy

Auditorium

Psychedelic-Augmented Psychotherapy at the OVID Clinics- Concept, Experience and Outlook

Sergio Pérez Rosal, M.D.

Mystical-type experiences occasioned by ketamine mediate its impact on at-risk drinking: Results from a randomized, controlled trial

Rebecca Rothberg, Psy.D.

Treatment of Severe Borderline Personality Disorder with Ketamine ‐ a Case Report

Helena Rogg, M.D.

12:30 pm

Break

Panel IV: How Useful is Integration Therapy? The Concepts, Methods and Science Behind Practices of Integrating Psychedelic Experiences in Clinical Settings

Track 1

Audience Interaction

Multiple rooms

2:45 pm

Introduction

3:00 pm

Audience Interaction II

4:05 pm

Award Ceremony I

Best Basic Research Presentation, Best Research Poster, Best Clinical Research Presentation, and the INSIGHT Audience Award

4:30 pm

Break

Track 1

Treatment V

Auditorium

Psychedelics, Psychotherapy, and Pitfalls

Prof. Dr. Matthew Johnson

Panel VII: From the Lab to the Retreat Center? Ethical Science Communication and Psychedelic Pop Culture

6:20 pm

MIND Members Association Reception

Foyer

8:00 pm

Social Evening (Conference Party)

Track 2

Basic Research III

Bernhard von Langenbeck Room

9:00 am

Registration

Pharmacology and Acute Effects of Different Psychedelics

Prof. Dr. Matthias Liechti

Christopher Timmermann, Ph.D.

DMT Neuroscience

10:30 am

Break

Track 2

Treatment IV: Integration Therapy

Bernhard von Langenbeck Room

A Clinical Case of Psychedelic Integration in the Community

Dr. Ingmar Gorman

Know thyself and take the steps – Semi-structured group processes for psychedelic integration (BEYOND EXPERIENCE and Footsteps)

David Heuer, M.A.

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

12:30 pm

Break

Panel IV: How Useful is Integration Therapy? The Concepts, Methods and Science Behind Practices of Integrating Psychedelic Experiences in Clinical Settings

Track 2

Audience Interaction

Multiple rooms

2:45 pm

Introduction

3:00 pm

Audience Interaction II

4:05 pm

Award Ceremony I

Best Basic Research Presentation, Best Research Poster, Best Clinical Research Presentation, and the INSIGHT Audience Award

4:30 pm

Break

Track 2

Basic Research IV

Bernhard von Langenbeck Room

From Psychiatry to Neurology: Psychedelics as Candidates to Provide Brain Protection from Neuroinflammation

Urszula Kozlowska, Ph.D.

Panel VII: From the Lab to the Retreat Center? Ethical Science Communication and Psychedelic Pop Culture

6:20 pm

MIND Members Association Reception

Foyer

8:00 pm

Social Evening (Conference Party)

Track 3

Non-pharmacological Methods

Albrecht Kossel Lecture room

9:00 am

Registration

Dissolving Egoic Identity to Sense Connection: Multi-person VR can Elicit Peak Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

Dr. David Glowacki

Meta‐analytic Comparison of Resting‐state fMRI Data from Pharmacologically and Non‐pharmacologically Induced Altered States of Consciousness

Dr. Timo Torsten Schmidt

10:30 am

Break

Track 3

Self-development

Albrecht Kossel Lecture room

Microdosing with Psilocybin Mushrooms: a Self‐Blinded Study of Behavior, Cognition, Neurophysiology and Creative Thinking under Natural Conditions

Enzo Tagliazucchi, Ph.D.

Psychedelic Use in Meditation Practice: Theories, Evidence, and Future Directions

Marco Schlosser, M.Sc.

Psychedelically Occasioned Religious and Contemplative Experiences and Their Potential Effects on Well‐being: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study

PD Dr. Kurt Stocker

12:30 pm

Break

Panel V: Transformation of Self or Society? Understanding the Implications of Psychedelic Experience

Enzo Tagliazucchi, Ph.D.

PD Dr. Kurt Stocker

David Heuer, M.A.

Marvin Däumichen, M.A.

Paloma David, RMA

Phase 3 Trial with Psilocybin‐assisted Therapy for Depression ‐ European Consortium

Track 3

Public Health II: Political Regulation

Albrecht Kossel Lecture room

2:45pm

Panel VI: Assessing the Value of Psychedelic Therapies to Payers and Society

3:15pm

John Schneider, Ph.D.

Elliot Marseille, DrPH, MPP

Charles Raison, M.D.

Tura Patterson, M.A.

4:30 pm

Break

Track 3

Public Health III

Albrecht Kossel Lecture room

A Public Health Vision for the Regulation of Psychedelics Based on the Human Development Approach

Jonas Di Gregorio, B.A.

Panel VII: From the Lab to the Retreat Center? Ethical Science Communication and Psychedelic Pop Culture

6:20 pm

MIND Members Association Reception

Foyer

8:00 pm

Social Evening (Conference Party)

Track 4

Philosophy I

Rudolf Virchow Room

9:00 am

Registration

Whatever Next and Closer to my Self – The Transparent Senses and the ‘Second Skin’: Implications for the Case of Depersonalisation

Dr. Anna Ciaunica

Towards a New Materialism in Psychedelics Studies

Daan Frans Oostveen, Ph.D.

10:30 am

Break

Track 4

Philosophy I

Rudolf Virchow Room

Psychedelics and meditation: a neurophilosophical perspective

Ayahuasca Insightfulness

Paloma David, RMA

Applying Buddhist Concepts and Practices as a Guiding Epistemic and Ethical Framework for Psychedelic Experiences

Stefan Lang, M.A.

12:30 pm

Break

Panel V: Transformation of Self or Society? Understanding the Implications of Psychedelic Experience

Enzo Tagliazucchi, Ph.D.

PD Dr. Kurt Stocker

David Heuer, M.A.

Marvin Däumichen, M.A.

Paloma David, RMA

Ecological Consciousness, Phenomenology and Translational Neurosciences: What Role Psychedelics Play in the Shaping of a View on Consciousness Beyond the Individual and Across Species?

Track 4

Philosophy II: Integration

Rudolf Virchow Room

2:45pm

Dr. med. Ansgar Rougemont-Bücking

Maps, Territories and the Things Themselves

3:15pm

Danny Forde, M.Phil.

3:45 pm

Discussion

4:05 pm

Award Ceremony I

Best Basic Research Presentation, Best Research Poster, Best Clinical Research Presentation, and the INSIGHT Audience Award

4:30 pm

Break

Track 4

Philosophy II: Integration

Rudolf Virchow Room

Therapeutic and Epistemic Power of Imaginative (mythopoetic) Cognition – and its Role in the Re-enchantment of the Modern World

Prof. Stephen Asma

Panel VII: From the Lab to the Retreat Center? Ethical Science Communication and Psychedelic Pop Culture