Ibogaine in psychotherapy

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Ibogaine in psychotherapy

• A case study
• ibogaine
  therapy uk

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outline of treatment

• assessment
• pre-ibogaine therapy sessions
• ibogaine therapy
• post- ibogaine sessions

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assessment

• date of assessment 20.3.8
• 44 yo single male lives alone
• physicist
• reason for assessment
• had seen Tribe
• neglect
• emotional trauma

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to address

• desire to open up spiritually
• break through armour keeping him separate
• why are we here
• has things to do
• his unfolding
• sadness, not deserving
• feeling stuck, free himself for better things
• using energy in a positive way

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phenomena

• feeling a finger on skin
• seeing faces and beings
• hearing his name.smells
• seeing hand through coffee mug
• floating patterns, lights and colours
• butterflies, spiders
• bells
• electricity, humming
• shaking

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background

• parents abusive alcoholics,
• never felt appreciated, nasty to him
• older non-identical twin, 3 siblings
• parents violent to each other
• left home age 21

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relationships

• heterosexual
• last girlfriend 5 years ago
• never committed

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drug and alcohol

• cigarettes from age 13 to 18 months ago
• alcohol from age 25, never heavy drinker
• no drug history

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medical history

• appendicectomy age 15
• recurrent tightness in epigastrium ?irritable
  bowel
• shaking in legs
• no allergies
• no medication
• past psychiatric history- suicidal ideas from age
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• father heart dx, CABG, parents alcoholic

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personality

• introvert
• happy child, sensitive, shy quiet
• stick with his opinions
• interests nature, animals, music

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comments

• I dont feel self-pity
• help me go back. I was a kid, I was murdered.
• reorganizing a drawer, re-filing
• aware of risks
• I think it will be painful

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review one 4.4.8

• alright
• met a brazilian woman
• can read people
• wants to work for himself
• patents for inventions
• spasm right flank
• dream nine 8ft people

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review two 20.4.8

• something around the corner
• optimistic
• directors at work are like his parents
• wants to work with people
• forming space to grow
• no fear of taking ibogaine
• abdominal symptoms. eyes flickering
• colours workshop. saw mediumn
• unfolding

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review three 2.5.8

• looking forward to summer
• never had fear. never feared parents
• nightmare, albatross, water on face
• earliest memories
• in photos always looking up

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review four 16.5.8

• abdominal pain, humming on/off 5 years
• can feel bodies around him
• sacrifices in relationships
• to use his talents
• discussed ibogaine therapy
• physical examination

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review five 29.5.8

• feeling okay
• mix of excitement and anxiety
• flutter in epigastrium, left chest
• humming in torso, legs.
• ball of heat left chest
• age 7-14
• wizard in the forest
• past lives

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ibogaine therapy 7.6.8

• 1030 ECG normal. test dose 100mg ibogaine HCL
• saw medium. wizard in solar plexus
• was seeing colours of light, pink mainly
• feeling relaxed, little nervous, excited
• plans to take next week off, course spiritual
  realm
• 1100 feeling fine
• 1130 BP 120/80. flutter right leg
• usual buzzing in head but stronger

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• 1200 taken ibogaine HCL 1500mg ( total 20mg/kg)
• 1215 P 70 reg good vol
• 1230 hot flush. P 65 BP 120/80
• 1315 P 60 reg. restless. visions
• 1400 BP 120/80 . doing okay. thirsty
• 1500 P 60 less restless now
• 1600 BP 130/85 P 65reg. thirsty o/w settled
• 1900 heart beating fast. felt in chest. BP
  140/90 P 88
• drinking plenty water, no nausea, vomiting or
  urination
• 2000 BP 120/80 P 70 reg .Some anxiety

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• 1230am BP 110/70 P 76 reg. visions decreasing
• 0530 white doves.
• memories of 1 1/2 y.o.
• dogs ,sheep, horses, 200 people, dinosaurs
• initially lot of blood and gore
• what if Id died it was lovely
• 7 people working with him.
• 2 girls, old man (Lao Tse), monk, african,
  indian, other
• advice given to him

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• levitation of bed
• white cloud
• box with white material
• bridge of white blanket
• traffic lights, lights flying through air
• fat lady, thin lady, ends of same thing
• fathers aggression
• mother aware of what she has done
• birds, butterflies, cows, pidgeons
• person next to me

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• ceiling
• white rabbit
• three screens
• third eye
• games
• little bird
• worlds population in miniature
• USA, China

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• bodily sensations
• gel/ substance on abdomen
• substance over hands
• higher place
• body being worked on
• telepathic communication
• watching historical self without emotion
• victim as victimizer
• changing his work
• writing postcards
• trust Lao Tse as guide. trust other humans

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• it was fun
• life is an opportunity

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post-ibogaine one 13.6.8

• reborn
• best thing ive ever done
• tolerance
• sense of real purpose
• responding differently
• lessons learned
• higher self kept telling me off
• has been adjusted
• only used rational mind

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• moving forward fast
• baby smiling at me and laughing
• judging and labelling less
• wanting to mix with people more
• seeing colours, lots of green, ball of green
  light
• the strong pulse in stomach has gone
• not self-persecuting, humble, forgiving
• connected to other half of self
• work fine about going back
• has faith things will come
• visions cave water not falling on him

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post-ibogaine two 19.8.8

• talked about changing his career
• less judgemental
• seeing three women, playing the field, enjoying
  freedom
• wanting to move to south coast
• visions dog on his lap, slim girl long hair
  sitting with me
• wanting ibogaine again
• feelings about the old man
• chance meeting with a woman called Linda
• a

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post-ibogaine three 10.10.8

• major progress
• dream in a lake, released something
• really wants to be here now since ibogaine and
  dream
• seeing beings and lights
• wave and the archangel
• sees an old man a boy
• women on hold
• work going well

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post-ibogaine four 7.11.8

• feeling well
• discussed job offer
• applied to work as carer at local hospice
• healing workshops
• mediums
• patents

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post-ibogaine five 6.3.9

• inventions and the dream home
• healing therapies to others
• reconciliation with mother
• freedom from past trauma
• no issues around water
• recurring dream of being at university
• did see Linda again but....
• ibogaine still the best day of his life
• wants to continue journey in june

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psychotherapy and ibogaine

• powerful, deep experience outside consensual
  reality
• alchemical experience
• introspective and cosmic
• contact with intelligence outside ego
• freedom from past trauma
• re-evaluation of his life and priorities
• reconnected with the world
• peace in himself
• unfolding, unstuck
• new path for his future

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