OPS PRESENTS Active Inference, Interoception, and Psychedelics: Putting Priors-Updating Models to Work in Psychotherapy with Dr. Matt Hayler

What Oxford Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Psychedelics hold huge potential for use both as and in therapies for a wide range of common mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD. There is increasing evidence that at least part of this power stems from a temporary suspension of our prior assumptions about the world. In this talk, Dr Matt Hayler discusses how predictive accounts of cognition (i.e. brains constant testing of their models of best-fit for the worlds they encounter mediated by sensory apparatus and cultural and historical shaping) can be put to work in psychotherapy, and with a particular focus on overcoming fear.

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