Psychedelics as Medicine 2023 - Dr. Will Siu, MD / Sagas and Psychedelics

Dr. Will Siu takes the stage at the Psychedelics as Medicine conference in Reykjavík, Iceland with his beautiful and vulnerable talk titled Sagas and Psychedelics.
Dr. Will Siu completed medical training at UCLA and a doctorate in immunology at the University of Oxford. He completed his psychiatric training at Harvard Medical School, where he was on faculty for six years; his interest in psychedelics as healing tools began there in 2012. Will was an attending psychiatrist at McLean and Bellevue Hospitals' inpatient addictions treatment departments for 3 years.
He has trained with MAPS in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and has been practicing with ketamine since 2017. His work as a public educator has been featured in outlets including The goop Lab on Netflix, HBO, and The Wall Street Journal. Will is a co-principal investigator on a pilot research study exploring MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of fibromyalgia. He maintains a clinical office in Los Angeles for patient care, trains psychiatrists/psychologists in the use of psychedelics, and is an advisor to a number of companies in the wellness space.
In his talk Sagas & Psychedelics, Dr.Siu will focus on our own personal narratives and how Psychedelics can help us rewrite them. For centuries, stories have played a central role in human evolution: survival, entertainment, cultural preservation, and more. In The Icelandic Sagas, there are examples of such tales of struggle, conflict, failure, and triumph. Stories are powerful- none more so than the beliefs we carry about ourselves.
Our personal narratives become written far before we become aware of them, including lessons from struggling parents, school bullies, first loves, social media, and traumas. These experiences have a lasting impact on our self-esteem, emotional awareness, sense of freedom, lovability, and other factors of well-being. Dr. Siu will share how psychedelics are powerful tools in both helping us realize that we are the sole author of our life's story and how they can aid us in rewriting our personal and collective sagas.
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