2023 Mindfulness & Psychotherapy
Exploratory Conversations Series
from the Center for Mindfulness & Compassion in support of
Institute for Meditation & Psychotherapy Certificate Program
Please look for announcements of further talks in this series.
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM Eastern Time
Panelists: Gita Vaid, MD & CMC Senior Faculty Paul Fulton, Ed.D.
Topic: What do psychedelic forms of healing offer to an expanded view of human nature?
All forms of healing rest on assumptions about human nature. Psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation share many of these assumptions while departing in significant ways. As psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is gaining interest in the psychiatric community, it’s clinical efficacy raises challenging questions about our fundamental nature. What do these non-traditional forms of healing share, and what do they suggest about the nature of psychological suffering, healing, and our capacity to live fully, with wisdom and understanding?
This live Zoom discussion is the second offering in the 2023 CMC/IMP Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Exploratory Conversations Series, which will explore influences on the practice of psychotherapy and healing originating from various contemplative traditions and other non-clinical sources. Attendance is free and pre-registration is required. This event will be recorded and available to all registrants. Please visit the Institute for Meditation & Psychotherapy Certificate Program for certification details.
Gita Vaid, MD is a board certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing ketamine assisted psychotherapy in New York City. She is a co-founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence, a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to psychedelic psychotherapy innovation and clinical practice (www.cni.nyc). Dr Vaid completed her residency training and is on faculty at NYU Medical Center, psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. She trained as a fellow in clinical psychopharmacology and neurophysiology at New York Medical College and completed a research fellowship at NYU Medical Center. Dr Vaid serves as the Director of Psychedelic Awareness and Consciousness research at The Chopra Foundation and is on Faculty as a lead instructor at The Ketamine Training Center. She is a faculty member in IMP’s Certificate Program in Mindfulness & Psychotherapy.
Paul R. Fulton, Ed.D.,is co-founder and former president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He has been a student of Buddhist psychology for over 54 years, having received jukai initiation in Zen Buddhism in 1972, and a lifelong student of the integration of Buddhist meditation and psychotherapy. Dr. Fulton received his doctorate from Harvard’s Laboratory for Human Development where he studied comparative developmental psychology, and did his dissertation on the nature of the self among American Buddhists. He is course director of IMP’s 9 month long Certificate Program in Mindfulness & Psychotherapy, co-editor and co-author of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy and contributing author to Buddhism and World Culture, Mindfulness and the Therapeutic relationship, Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy, Begegnung von westlicher Psychotherapie und Buddhistischer Geistesschulung, and other volumes. He is a Lecturer (part time) in Psychology, in the Department of Psychiatry, HMS at Cambridge Health Alliance.
Previous Conversations
February 7, 2023: Rick Hanson and Paul Fulton, What Can Healing Professions Learn from an Expanded View of Human Potential: Mindfulness, Meditation & Buddhist Psychology
