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Wisdom, Plant Medicine & Transformational States | Spring Washam

By Spring Washam — 2019

From Wisdom 2.0 2019 in San Francisco.

16:35 min

How One Soldier’s Experiments With Ayahuasca Could Change the Way PTSD Is Treated

In 2014, former British Para Keith Abraham flew to Peru to see if he could cure his post-traumatic stress disorder with a dose of the psychedelic drug, ayahuasca. He returned a changed man and is now on a mission to extend access to other members of the armed forces and beyond

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Kevin E. G. Perry
2022
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The Brain Injury Data Project: One Soldier's Story

Data from more than 10,000 brain injury patients -- including hundreds of variables and outcomes -- is being tracked in an ongoing government project that began 26 years ago.

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Rebecca Ruiz
2013
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Unbroken, Wounded Warriors Overcome Injury to Find New Strength

More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.

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Mandy Oaklander, Erik Tanner (photography)
2015
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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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David Davis
2022
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Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal―Recovering from PTSD and Moral Injury through Meditation

Winner of a 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war—the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs.

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Tom Voss, Rebecca Anne Nguyen
2025
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Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World

In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica describes the surprising capacity of traumatized people to heal themselves.

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Richard F. Mollica
2025
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Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers

Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries—guilt, shame, feeling responsible for doing wrong or being wronged—elude conventional treatment.

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Nancy Sherman
2025
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.

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Jonathan Shay
2003
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Veterans Use Creative Forces to Heal Invisible Wounds of War

How music and art therapies can help military service members.

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Richard Sima
2021
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Virtual Reality Therapy Plunges Patients Back Into Trauma. Here Is Why Some Swear by It.

An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis.

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Dani Blum
2021
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