What a start to 2021! January has hardly begun, and we are reminded again that now, more than ever, we need the healing benefits an psychedelic approach to wellness and trauma therapy.
We are so excited to give you a quick first tour of our building that we have been working so hard on preparing for these purposes.
Take a look, and expect more to come soon!!
Read MoreAs we brace for a new year which promises a slow but steady reduction of COVID-19 infection rates, we begin to assess the traumatic mental health effects that the pandemic left in its wake. This is an enormous task— one that will likely take years to address. Frontline healthcare workers who have been fighting COVID-19 for the majority of the past year and patients intubated in ICUs due to COVID-19 have a PTSD rate of up to 35%.
Read MoreHappy Holidays from SoundMind! Here’s what we did in 2020, and what we are looking forward to in 2021.
2020 has been a challenging year for so many of us, but also a time of reflection and renewal, a time to mobilize our resources toward an exciting future. At SoundMind, we have continued our work to make psychedelic healing accessible to all, and we remain forever optimistic…
Read MoreJust an update on the building. We plan to open in May and we can't wait to show you the spot. It is so many things: beautiful, cozy, historical, fabulous. We can't wait to have many a gathering about psychedelics, plants, mushrooms, meditation, music, and revolutions in this gorgeous space. The address is 4623 Spruce Street if you want to check out the location on a map or gaze at it with excitement as you walk by.
Read MoreRecent clinical trial demonstrates significant and lasting reduction in depression after just two psilocybin sessions
Read MoreThank you, to everyone who participated on Sunday, June 14th for our inaugural event! We are thrilled to have the privilege to continue to provide free and accessible content. Our next installment, to air in early August, is sure to be a fascinating and informative installment that you will not want to miss. We have an exciting lineup of speakers to expect. Check out our list of confirmed speakers and topics!
Read MoreSteph Fèini Yĭn Steph Yin talks at the Psyched Conference: An Exploration of the Psychedelic Ecosystem about their article related to psychedelics for POC and healing racial trauma.
Read MoreHannah McLane, MD, MA, MPH joined Andrea Lawful Sanders of WURD Radio live on The Source to discuss distributive justice and the racial disparities at play in the U.S. plan for allocating scarce resources in light of COVID-19.
Read MoreNew Piece by Hannah McLane MD just published on WHYY; "In my opinion, what defines a ‘fair’ resource allocation choice? It is one that considers not just the number of lives saved, but also what is behind those lives. Being fair about where our efforts go and not being biased based on a deluded notion that we are all starting out on a level playing field."
Read MoreWe are offering free educational content about wellness and healing as part of our Solidarity Series initiative. We are also currently raising funds to provide free and sliding scale therapy to frontline healthcare providers and essential workers affected by COVID-19. Spaces will be limited to available funding. Please consider donating to our effort.
Read MoreDuring this COVID crisis, we are faced with a real life bioethics challenge, and we have been contemplating how we can best support our community through the difficult times ahead. To provide some insight into how we are thinking about this issue, we are sharing the presentation Michelle Joy and Hannah McLane gave last summer at the SOAP Conference in Pittsburgh.
Read MoreSoundMind Center is mentioned in our local media, the Philadelphia Inquirer. This article discusses the potential of psychedelics, specifically psilocybin and LSD, in the medical setting and notes the progress of the MDMA clinical trials for PTSD: "Upon FDA approval, the SoundMind Center, based in West Philly, will open a clinic in Cedar Park offering MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to populations with higher rates of PTSD." We are committed to quality care and access to these therapies and will be ready to provide psilocybin and LSD assisted therapy once legally available for medical use.
Read MoreMDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Expanded Access program has been accepted by the FDA! The FDA will be allowing only a limited number of patients (less than 50 in the entire country) to enroll outside of the phase III trial. This is an incredible moment in the approval process.
Read MoreAisha Mohammed, a therapist at SoundMind, is quoted in this great piece on the importance of providing access to psychedelic therapies for people of color with PTSD, and others who have been targeted by the War on Drugs. We are so proud of our team who is leading the charge in Philadelphia to bring these incredible therapies into the mainstream, and specifically to the marginalized communities that need and deserve them most.
Read MoreWe hope your holidays are merry and you've been spending your days contemplating how amazing it would be if everyone with trauma and mental illness could have access to psychedelic therapies! As 2019 comes to a close, we want to remind you that you can make your tax-deductible donation to SoundMind Project up until midnight.
Read MoreOn September 27-29, members of the SoundMind team joined MAPS and the Pittsburgh Psychedelic Society for the Sleeping Octopus Assembly on Psychedelics (SOAP), an annual conference exploring the role of psychedelics in science, medicine, policy, and culture. The event, hosted at a historic mansion in Pittsburgh, PA, featured presentations, panels, and “tentacle” breakout sessions with experts and advocates working to advance psychedelic science, including SoundMind’s own Dr. Hannah McLane, and Dr. Michelle Joy!
Read MoreThings are progressing here in the world of the SoundMind Center over the past month. Logistically and philosophically, we have been growing, and we are excited to share some of that with you - so check out some of the items below and we hope to see you either in Pittsburgh or somewhere, sometime, in the near future! …
Read MoreWe would like to share some of the things we learned at the Psychedelic Medicine and Cultural Trauma workshop in Kentucky, which our entire six-person therapy team attended on August 10–11th. It was an incredible learning and collaborative experience! The workshop was jam-packed with thought-provoking presentations and heartfelt sharing of personal narratives …
Read MoreSleeping Octopus Assembly on Psychedelics is Sept 27-29th in Pittsburgh. It is a fun and relaxed conference, a nice mix of healthcare workers, psychedelic scientists, artists, philosophers, and enthusiasts. The lineup includes visionaries such as Rick Doblin, the founder of MAPS, and we are honored to announce that Hannah McLane and Michelle Joy will be giving a talk on ethics and access to innovative therapies for trauma. They will also be joining Rick Doblin and a few others for a panel discussion on Saturday afternoon. We hope to see you there!
Read MoreMany updates and dates to remember! Thanks for coming to our fundraiser; An update about expanded access; Reminder about the Psychedelic Medicine and Cultural Trauma workshop next week; Local gatherings and conferences for psychedelic medicine; some other events and upcoming projects From the SoundMind Center development team…
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