Cough Medicine for Depression?
This blog entry touches upon the same issue that was detailed in the “What’s In a Name..” blog entry of November 2020. Medications are "born” with...
Ketamine Dreams 1
It is immensely gratifying for us to see the robust response to ketamine in some patients, especially since many of them had struggled...
Ketamine Dreams: Visions of Sand and Stars in Patient Narratives
One type of feedback we collect from our ketamine patients is a narrative description of their experiences during the “trip”. It is hard to remember...
Psychotherapy during Ketamine Trip
Carla is a 48 years old woman, the owner of a car dealership, a gregarious woman with a very busy life. No one would ever suspect...
A Disappointed Patient
Joe is in his mid-fifties, an accomplished attorney who has been suffering from recurrent depression since his early adulthood. The depression ...
When a trip is a dud
Patients who receive ketamine for depression, PTSD or other indications, experience distortions of time and space, and a loss of sense of ...
New ways of thinking about suicide
Suicide is the tenth most common cause of death in the US. It is a terrible loss for the survivors and a great burden to...
Ketamine is NOT a Sedative
In the summer of 2019, a young man, Elijah McClain, died after being arrested by the police. During the arrest he became agitated and EMTs...