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Happiness: What Causes It?

Happiness Research: One Big Finding Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness   What is the central activity that promotes happiness?  A century of research gives us the answer: Connection to others.
  • Posted on June 4, 2025
  • Emma Bragdon
  • happiness, Harvard, psychotherapy, research, Waldinger
04 Jun 2025
in Mental Health, Relationship
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happiness, Harvard, psychotherapy, research, Waldinger
Psychiatry's

Psychiatry Accepting of Spiritual Phenomena?

    Psychiatry: Accepting of Spiritual Phenomena?  “Western civilization is unique in history in its failure to recognize each human being as a subtle energy system in constant relationship to a vast sea of energies
  • Posted on August 29, 2024
  • Emma Bragdon
  • cultural formulation interview, DSM, hearing voices, psychiatry, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, schizophrenia, visions
29 Aug 2024
in Spiritual Emergence
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cultural formulation interview, DSM, hearing voices, psychiatry, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, schizophrenia, visions
psychedelic science

Psychedelic Science Update

  Psychedelic Science June 19-23, 2023, the largest psychedelic conference in history on Psychedelic Science, sponsored by Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), was attended by more than 12,000 people in Denver, CO.  You can
  • Posted on September 26, 2023
  • Emma Bragdon
  • education, ketamine, mdma, medicine, mental health, mental illness, plant medicine, psilocybin, psychedelics, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, science, training
26 Sep 2023
in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Psychedelics
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education, ketamine, mdma, medicine, mental health, mental illness, plant medicine, psilocybin, psychedelics, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, science, training

Indigenous American Psychology: NEW

A Cherokee Man   Indigenous culture has been translated into “A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth” by an award-winning, Amer-Indian psychologist, Arthur W. Blume, PhD.  The book was published
  • Posted on August 10, 2023
  • Emma Bragdon
  • amer-indian, culture, indians, indigenous, mental health, mental illness, natives, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy
10 Aug 2023
in Integrative Mental Health, Spirit
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amer-indian, culture, indians, indigenous, mental health, mental illness, natives, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy
DMT

Brain Scans Reveal Ayahuasca’s Impact

  DMT Study gives most advanced picture yet of DMT compound’s effect on advanced functions such as imagination   Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of a brain shows regions of increased connectivity on DMT.
  • Posted on March 21, 2023
  • Emma Bragdon
  • Ayahuasca, brain imaging, brain scan, consciousness, DMT, psychedelics, psychedlic-assisted psychotherapy, psychotherapy, Robin Carhart-Harris
21 Mar 2023
in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Psychedelics
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Ayahuasca, brain imaging, brain scan, consciousness, DMT, psychedelics, psychedlic-assisted psychotherapy, psychotherapy, Robin Carhart-Harris

PEAK States Symposium

                                                                     
  • Posted on March 29, 2022
  • Emma Bragdon
  • healing, mental health, mental illness, peak states, psych-biology, psycho-immunology, psychotherapy, symposium
29 Mar 2022
in Integrative Mental Health, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
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healing, mental health, mental illness, peak states, psych-biology, psycho-immunology, psychotherapy, symposium
Spiritist Healing

Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare

[still from the film “Astral City: My Spiritual Home” Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare Spiritist Healing: In Context Why should we consider Spiritist healing  now?  There is currently an epidemic of mental health
  • Posted on January 18, 2022
  • Emma Bragdon
  • Brazil, Mental healthcare, psychiatric hospital, psychotherapy, Spiritism, spiritist healing, spiritual healing, spiritual psychiatry
18 Jan 2022
in Spiritism, Spiritual Emergence
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Brazil, Mental healthcare, psychiatric hospital, psychotherapy, Spiritism, spiritist healing, spiritual healing, spiritual psychiatry
ketamine

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

The drug, Ketamine, in moderate doses, is now being used legally to effectively help people out of anxiety, depression and the effects of trauma, PTSD. Best usage comes when the medicine is given alongside psychotherapy
  • Posted on April 15, 2021
  • Emma Bragdon
  • ketamine, psychedelic-assisted therapy, psychotherapy, stan grof, Will Siu
15 Apr 2021
in Integrative Mental Health, Psychedelics
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ketamine, psychedelic-assisted therapy, psychotherapy, stan grof, Will Siu
Spiritist Healing

Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare

Spiritist Healing: In Context Why should we consider Spiritist Healing  now?  There is currently an epidemic of mental health disorders in the U.S.  At least one in five Americans is  taking one or more prescribed
  • Posted on March 8, 2021
  • Emma Bragdon
  • Brazil, Mental healthcare, psychiatric hospital, psychotherapy, Spiritism, spiritist healing, spiritual healing, spiritual psychiatry
08 Mar 2021
in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Healing
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Brazil, Mental healthcare, psychiatric hospital, psychotherapy, Spiritism, spiritist healing, spiritual healing, spiritual psychiatry
seeds

Seeds of Democracy: In Search of a Vision

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out, and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
  • Posted on January 12, 2021
  • Emma Bragdon
  • chaos, democracy, insurrection, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, psychotherapy, seeds, spiritual crisis, vision board
12 Jan 2021
in Integrative Mental Health
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chaos, democracy, insurrection, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, psychotherapy, seeds, spiritual crisis, vision board

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