Psychedelics as Medicine: Expert Interview with Dr. Henrik Jungaberle in the “Psych Report 2021”

DO PSYCHEDELICS REALLY HAVE THE POWER TO DISRUPT HEALTHCARE? IF SO, HOW?

The Psychedelics as Medicine Report: Third Edition (2021) is an industry report outlet. It describes itself as “a premium business-to-business media and content platform for the psychedelic science and healthcare industry. Part of Psych Capital Plc.”. As such it tries to collect “consumer insights and market intelligence from experts and industry leaders, helping investors cut through the noise and identify real opportunities.”
Dr. Henrik Jungaberle has been interviewed for the report by Floris Wolswijk. Henrik is not involved with and has not been paid for the interview by either of the parties who produced or sponsored the report. His views are his own.

Medicine of Interactions – What modern Medicine could learn from its historical Encounter with “Animal Magnetism”

Whoever deals with the person, work and history of Franz Anton Mesmer is confronted with the difficulty of facing a personality whose many facets make it difficult to force him into a uniform image. Mesmer seems to evade this attempt to grasp him light-footedly, like one of his much-vaunted fluids.
Franz Anton Mesmer gave impulses for the most diverse disciplines and topoi. Examples are the development of anesthesia, psychiatry, psychosomatics, hypnotism and psycho-therapy. – For the sociological formation of the latter, his unintended influence should not be underestimated. Beyond that, however, his teachings had an effect in the fields of parapsy-chology, spiritualism, which returned to Europe via America, spiritual healing, stage hypno-sis, and in an extensive way in the history of literature, especially German Romanticism.
What can medicine learn from its encounter with “animal magnetism”? How would it react to esoteric and metaphysial theories that evolve around an otherwise “rational” and effective therapy TODAY?a