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SUMMARY:Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement  - Brian D. Earp\,  Associate
  Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and  Health Policy at Yal
 e University and The Hastings Center\, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre fo
 r Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n\nThere is now a flurry of research on drug-assiste
 d psychotherapy -- focused on MDMA and psilocybin (from magic mushrooms) -
 - for serious mental conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PT
 SD). The current model treats these drugs as "medicine" and thus conceptua
 lly tied to the treating of diseases/disorders. But psychedelic drugs have
  also been used for "enhancement" purposes\, and not only for individual-l
 evel concerns but also in relational and community-oriented contexts. What
  are the ethics of using MDMA or psilocybin for relationship enhancement i
 n "healthy" couples? \n\nBio \n\nBrian is co-author of the book Love Drugs
 : The Chemical Future of Relationships (Stanford University Press\, 2020\;
  published in the UK by Manchester University Press as Love Is the Drug: T
 he Chemical Future of Our Relationships). The book calls for a "relational
  turn" in research on the therapeutic effects of MDMA and psychedelic drug
 s including psilocybin\, asking how drug-assisted psychotherapy could bene
 fit couples. Brian is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in E
 thics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center\, and a
  Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the Universi
 ty of Oxford. His work is cross-disciplinary\, following training in philo
 sophy\, cognitive science\, psychology\, history and sociology of science 
 and medicine\, and ethics. Brian is co-recipient of the 2018 Daniel M. Weg
 ner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Soci
 al Psychology. He is also recipient of both the Robert G. Crowder Prize in
  Psychology and the Ledyard Cogswell Award for Citizenship from Yale Unive
 rsity\, where he was elected President of the Yale Philosophy Society as a
 n undergraduate as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Philosophy Review. 
 He then conducted graduate research in psychological methods as a Henry Fe
 llow of New College at the University of Oxford. He also conducted graduat
 e research in the history\, philosophy\, and sociology of science\, techno
 logy\, and medicine as a Cambridge Trust Scholar and Rausing Award recipie
 nt at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. After spending a yea
 r in residence as the inaugural Presidential Scholar in Bioethics at The H
 astings Center in Garrison\, New York\, Brian is now a Benjamin Franklin R
 esident Graduate Fellow at Yale University\, where he is finishing his Ph.
 D. in philosophy and psychology\, having been jointly admitted to both dep
 artments. His essays have been translated into Polish\, German\, Italian\,
  Spanish\, French\, Portuguese\, and Hebrew.  \n\n
LOCATION:Zoom meeting
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