About us
Profs and Pints (https://www.profsandpints.com) brings professors and other college instructors into bars, cafes, and other venues to give fascinating talks or to conduct instructive workshops. They cover a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, popular culture, horticulture, literature, creative writing, and personal finance. Anyone interested in learning and in meeting people with similar interests should join. Lectures are structured to allow at least a half hour for questions and an additional hour for audience members to meet each other. Admission to Profs and Pints events requires the purchase of tickets, either in advance (through the ticket link provided in event descriptions) or at the door to the venue. Many events sell out in advance. Your indication on Meetup of your intent to attend an event constitutes neither a reservation nor payment for that event.
Although Profs and Pints has a social mission--expanding access to higher learning while offering college instructors a new income source--it is NOT a 501c3. It was established as a for-profit company in hopes that, by developing a profitable business model, it would be able to spread to other communities much more quickly than a nonprofit dependent on philanthropic support. That said, it is welcoming partners and collaborators as it seeks to build up audiences and spread to new cities. For more information email profsandpints@hotmail.com.
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Peter Schmidt
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Profs & Points Philadelphia: Ketamine on the Couch
Black Squirrel Club, 1049 Sarah St, Philadelphia, PA, USProfs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Ketamine on the Couch,” on how clinicians use a dissociative anesthetic to bring about change at people’s core, with Karen L. Smith, director of Full Living: A Psychotherapy Practice, former instructor at La Salle University and Rosemont College, and author of Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: A Step by Step Guide.
[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Available at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profs-and-pints-black-squirrel/ketamine-therapy .]
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is having a moment—so much so that the popularity of therapy using ketamine or other psychedelics can make it look ridiculously trendy or, worse yet, unhinged.
But analytically oriented clinicians use this tool much like dream work—to collect unconscious material, to excavate early relational patterns, and to help people access experiences and parts of themselves that their own defenses had made difficult to reach.
Gain an understanding of how ketamine assists therapy with Karen L. Smith, the author of a well-regarded guide to using psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in outpatient practice and a trainer of clinicians in this area.
She’ll discuss how ketamine-assisted psychotherapy helps people who have already experienced a lot of therapy and already possess knowledge of their inner landscape, but nonetheless have reached a place where they are stuck and not making additional progress. Often in such cases what’s in the way are mind and body defense systems laid down in infancy, before the acquisition of language and memory, which became default mood processing and can block access to a formed thought.
You’ll learn how psychotherapists use ketamine to help clients lower such defense systems, to get past the very stubborn thoughts and body responses that get in the way of insights and intention.
Three specific features of ketamine play a role: Being an anesthetic, it offers clients the lived experiences of having a calmer, less defended, safer, regulated nervous system as they explore core themes. As a dissociative, it lets clients simultaneously experience two selves, a “tripper” and an observing ego that becomes stronger through the experience. By being a promoter of neuroplasticity—the hallmark of all the psychedelics—it offers opportunity for new, original thought.
You’ll emerge from the talk knowing much more about why so much attention is focused on this promising new tool in mental health treatment. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.)
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