Could psychedelics help patients in therapy? | Benjamin Lewis

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It's time to make psychiatry more psychedelic, says psychiatrist Benjamin Lewis. Sharing results from his clinical trial on psychedelic-assisted therapy, he highlights how group therapy paired with the safe use of psilocybin, a compound found in magic mushrooms, has the potential to improve mental health conditions like depression and burnout. After the talk, Dr. Anthony Back, a palliative care physician, joins Shoshana to discuss his study on using psilocybin-assisted therapy to treat burnout among frontline healthcare workers.

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0:00.0	Hey, TED Health listeners, it's your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter, here to tell you about another way
0:05.1	you can learn from TED Talks. Do a variety of topics like how to reclaim your life from demanding work,
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0:44.6	This is TED Health, a podcast from the TED Audio Collective, and I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
0:50.0	Magic mushrooms could be more than just a psychedelic trip.
1:05.0	In his eye-opening talk, Dr. Benjamin Lewis explores how psilocybin-assisted therapy might be a game-changer for many people, from patients facing cancer to burned-out healthcare workers. And he's not just talking about individual sessions either. Imagine group therapy, but with a psychedelic
1:13.3	twist. Curious about how these substances might reshape mental health care or how a drug
1:20.9	experience could bring people together, Dr. Lewis's talk might just expand your mind, no psychedelics required.
1:30.0	And stick around after the talk for my conversation with Dr. Anthony Bach, a clinical professor at the University of Washington, who's examining psilocybin as a potential treatment for burnout.
1:40.2	But before we dive in, a quick break to hear from our sponsors.
1:53.4	Hey, TED Health listeners.
1:59.2	It's your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter, here to tell you about another way you can learn from TED Talks.
2:02.5	Do a variety of topics like how to reclaim your life from demanding work, or the connection between AI and comedy, or what's actually going on
2:09.1	with the TikTok ban, pique your interest? If yes, then I highly recommend you listen to the TED Talks
2:14.5	Daily podcast. Ted Talks Daily brings you your daily dose of inspiration and feeds your curiosity.
2:20.9	Listen to TED Talks Daily wherever you get your podcasts.
2:27.3	And now Benjamin Lewis takes the TED stage.
2:40.0	Many of the mental health struggles that we see in our world come from a loss of connection, a loss of connection to ourselves, to each other, to our communities, to the earth.
2:47.0	This loss of connection is so profound that the United States Surgeon General has called it a
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