Winter 2023 Semi-Annual Updates
Jacob Green presented on a chapter of his dissertation at Psychedemia 2022. He has finished the research phase of his dissertation work and is now in the writing phase. He has completed a draft of one chapter and will complete a draft of a second chapter very soon. He hopes to complete these by June of 2024. Jacob plans to go on the job market in the fall of 2023.
Publications:
Green, Jacob. "James McKeen Cattell's Self-Experimentation with Drugs." Presentation at the History of Science Society's Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2022.
Green, Jacob. "Drugs in Psychology: 1880 – 1930." Guest lecture for Christopher Davoli's History and Systems of Psychology (PSY 609), Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Green, Jacob. "Hallucinations of the Afterlife during Dental and Surgical Anesthesia as a Challenge to How Mystical Experience is Defined in Psychedelic Therapy." Psychedemia, Columbus, OH, 2022.
Green, Jacob. "Anesthesia and Mystical Experience." Presentation at the 2022 UCLA Grad Slam Challenge, Los Angeles, California, 2022.
Green Jacob. "William James' Network and Mind-altering Drug Research." Flashtalk Presentation at the History of Science Society's Annual Meeting, Virtual, 2021.
Ana Flecha received IRB approval in June of this year and had collected twenty-four interviews with Santo Daime practitioners so far in Ceará and Acre, Brazil, and in California. She recently got back from a two-month research trip in Acre, Brazil, which was very generative, collecting interviews and conducting archival research. She also visited the three Barquinha centers and several different Santo Daime centers and churches in Rio Branco as well as Mapiá in the state of Amazonas. In February she will begin focusing on writing the dissertation while still collecting interviews. She plans to defend by the Spring of 2024.
Ana submitted a manuscript to the Brazilian Journal of Presence Studies in November for a special edition on dance, violence and conflict, and is currently working on another one due at the end of January for the Brazilian journal, Social Sciences and Religion for a special edition on Religions, spiritualities and psychoactives: The expansion and pluralization of the use of substances and its controversies. These are target journals for her as they publish in multiple languages including English and Portuguese.
William Kromka’s project has received IRB approval and has entered into the recruitment/data collection phase. At this time the project appears to be on target with a completion date of late Spring 2023.
Maha Mian’s data collection has been completed and data analysis should be completed very soon. She was working on preparing the first manuscript (Study 1), with projected submission for December 2022. She will also be preparing an abstract submission for a conference after data analysis is complete.
Amanda Kim’s project manuscript has been written and submitted to the American Journal on Addictions; review is in progress.
Publications:
Kim A, Suzuki J. Addiction Specialists' Attitudes Toward Psychedelics: a National Survey. Poster accepted and to be presented at: 32nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry; 2021 Dec 9-12; http://aaap.societyconverence.com/v2/
Dave Roja’s dissertation is currently in data collection with concurrent data analysis. He has completed 5 interviews and 2 more are pending to start. At least 6 more potential participants were expected in December 2022. Dave anticipates that recruitment and data collection will continue until February 2023.
Publications:
Rojas, D., Zelman, D., Jain, R., & Alhassoon, O. (2022, August). Ketamine and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in a Low-income Ethnically Diverse Sample: A Phenomenological Study [Flash Talk presentation]. Psychedemia 2022 Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.