Today we spoke with Torsten Passie MD, PhD. Torsten is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Hannover Medical School (Germany) and currently Visiting Scientist at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
He studied philosophy, sociology (MA) at Leibniz-University, Hannover and medicine at Hannover Medical School.
From 1998 to 2010 he was a scientist and psychiatrist at Hannover Medical school (Germany) where he researched the addictions and the psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness and their healing potential, including clinical research with hallucinogenic drugs (cannabis, ketamine, nitrous oxide, psilocybin). In 2012-2015 he was Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA).
He is the author of the science of microdosing psychedelics, available through Psychedelic Press.
We discussed
-Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder
-MDMA assisted psychotherapy
-The future of psychedelic training for health professionals
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