DMT
Research & scholarshipThe revival
Sixty volunteers, government-approved DMT sessions, and the psychiatrist who ran them writing it up.
The Healing Journey: Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy
Practitioner guideThe long pauseClinical & therapeutic
practitioner reference, not medical evidence
What it is
An early clinical account of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy by Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo, describing his work with substances including harmaline, ibogaine, and the amphetamine derivatives MDA and MMDA. First published in 1973, it is regarded as a historical cornerstone of the therapeutic literature and was reissued as an expanded 2nd edition by MAPS in 2013 (ISBN 9780979862281). The book reports a pioneering practitioner's observations from a pre-prohibition era; it is a historical clinical narrative, not a controlled trial, and predates psilocybin specifically.
The record
- Author
- Claudio Naranjo
- Published
- 1973
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
- ISBN
- 9780979862281
- Kind
- Practitioner guide
- Subject
- Clinical & therapeutic
- Era
- The long pause
- Links checked
- 31 Jul 2026, and they resolved.
Where to find it
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