Pierre Bouchard is on the show to talk about somatic therapy, the traumatic roots of depression, and the role ketamine-assisted somatic psychotherapy can play in healing that trauma, and thus the depression it produces.
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Episode Breakdown
- Somatic therapy vs traditional talk therapy
- The objectivity of sensation
- How somatic sensation can be used therapy
- We are all creatively organized to get love in the world
- How somatic therapy helps heal trauma
- Adding low-dose ketamine to somatic trauma therapy | ketamine therapy for depression
- How ketamine's dissociative effects assist in safely accessing trauma feeling
- Developmental trauma and the roots of depression
- Treating depression through healing developmental trauma
- Trauma, depression, and healing through relationship
- How many somatic sessions does it take to heal depression? (integration)
- The problems of the present industry of ketamine therapy for depression
- Therapists should experience ketamine before providing ketamine
- In the absence of somatic ketamine therapists, how can we get the help we need to make sense of our ketamine experiences
- It's never too late to have a good childhood
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