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Supporting Spiritual Crisis in Veterans

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Monday, March 17, 2025 9am to 5pm ET (New York City Time) FREE–Attend live or virtually Info/Registration: https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/veteran_wellbeing_resilience Veterans, active service men and women, and first responders are often faced with moral distress when they experience something which conflicts with their morals or ethics. For example, someone in the infantry is ordered to kill a

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency DSM, Harvard, human flourishing, moral distress, moral injury, moral problem, suicide, veterans

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency by Emma Bragdon, PhD Joshua Mantz, (above), fresh out of West Point Academy, was a second lieutenant in the army deployed in 2006 to a dangerous zone in Baghdad, Iraq, at age 23. Within months he was shot by a sniper, almost bled to death, and flatlined for 15 minutes

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States Exploring Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Posted on June 24, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

Over the course of the past year, several states across the US have taken legal action to expand access to psychedelic-assisted therapies for some citizens. According to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), as much as 20 percent of all veterans returning home from Afghanistan will suffer from symptoms of PTSD. It’s currently estimated that roughly twenty-two

Posted in Psychedelics depression, Johns Hopkins, mental health, Nature Medicine, psychedelic medicine, psychedelic-assistred psychotherapy, psychedelics, PTSD, trauma, veterans