The Promise of Psychedelics
Science Based Hope for Better Mental Health
By Dr. Peter Silverstone
A fresh, engaging, and easy-to-read psychedelic therapy guide. Learn about psychedelics and a promising new mental health therapy program.
For conditions like PTSD, grief, depression, anxiety, addictions, or personality issues, despite the best efforts of clinicians, medications or other treatments often don’t help at all.
In The Promise of Psychedelics, you’ll learn:
- how psychedelics compare to psychiatric disorders
- how the mind and brain differ, what’s normal versus abnormal
- how psychiatric diagnoses are made and why it’s a problem
- what recent advances tell us about psychedelics: what they are, how they work, what the risks are
- why it takes so long for some psychedelics to be approved for therapeutic use, and
- the science behind micro-dosing psychedelics.
Dr. Silverstone rates and ranks psychedelics such as psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA, and more as contenders, wannabes, along with the bronze-, silver-, and gold-medal winners to share why some psychedelics will become standard, along with appropriate therapy, for many mental health conditions.
And you’ll also learn about the new psychedelic-assisted therapy program Dr. Silverstone and his team have developed that offers a big dose of hope.
There are certain indisputable facts about this topic. The first is that psychedelics are controversial. The second is that psychedelics will not solve the problems faced by every person with a mental health issue. The third is that we desperately need new and effective therapies to work with psychedelics. And the final fact is that new scientific evidence shows that psychedelics offer genuine hope for better mental health. And that’s what The Promise of Psychedelics is all about.
—DR. PETER SILVERSTONE, The Promise of Psychedelics: Science Based Hope for Better Mental Health
”An intriguing, illuminating, and multifaceted approach to mental health treatment.”
British Canadian psychiatrist and researcher Silverstone unpacks the emerging and controversial use of mind-altering substances in the treatment of psychiatric diseases in this work. Throughout the informative book, Silverstone writes in an accessible, conversational, and at times humorous style, often utilizing food metaphors to explain neuroscience.
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
About Peter
Dr. Peter Silverstone is a physician, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author focused on designing and implementing new solutions to prevent and treat mental health disorders. He is chief executive officer and founder of Zylorion Health, and a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta where he recently served as interim chair.
Dr. Silverstone has been an active brain and pharmaceutical researcher in areas including psychopharmacology, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, imaging, depression in medically ill patients, e-mental health, and training police offers in de-escalation techniques. He has received research grants and funding from a wide source of agencies, including Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and other national and international bodies. He was continuously funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS) and its predecessor Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) from 1994–2013 and he was the inaugural scientific director for the Strategic Clinical Network in Addiction and Mental Health (SCN) for Alberta Health Services.
The good news is that we're on the cusp of a therapeutic revolution in mental health. The explosion in knowledge of the brain and neuroscience over the past twenty years means the medical profession is much more aware of what can happen and why.
There are two parts to this, and together they are stronger than either alone. The first part is the potential for psychedelic treatment. The second is made up of the advances in science-based therapy. It’s the combination of the two that offers such hope. They boost each other in a synergistic way.
In The Promise of Psychedelics I describe both parts. Yet even with this promise, making a difference is still a challenge. That’s because how we diagnose and treat mental health problems hasn’t caught up with the science. You may be one of those who has a mental health issue which has not responded to treatment. Or you may know someone close to you in that situation. I’ve written The Promise of Psychedelics to help people like you."
—DR. PETER SILVERSTONE, The Promise of Psychedelics: Science Based Hope for Better Mental Health
"The Promise of Psychedelics is an engaging, concise introduction to the potential benefits of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy."
—Foreword Reviews, Clarion
Dr. Silverstone in the Media
Global News posted
An inside look at the Zylorion production facility and its possible impact on the Edmonton community.
CBC posted
How Zylorion plans to play a major role in the growing Canadian psychedelic health field.
Read articleCBC posted
Dr. Peter Silverstone explains how psychedelics can be used for mental health purposes and Zylorion’s business plan.
Listen hereEdmonton Journal posted
An interview with Dr. Peter Silverstone about the beginnings of Zylorion and its projections for the coming years.
Read articleAvailable in ebook, paperback, and audiobook
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