—     Psychedelic Art Therapy Resources Guide: Art, Art Therapy, and Creativity

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PSYCHEDELICS, ART, CREATIVITY AND ART THERAPY RESOURCES

Our mission is to make the benefits of art, creativity, and the Art Therapy process safely and easily accessible to psychonauts, facilitators, researchers, academic institutions, organizations, and anyone exploring the world of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC).

We are passionate about providing resources and supporting research, community-based collaboration, career development, and personal inquiry around the growing understanding of this unique intersection.

Welcome to an evolving portal of resources designed for you and anyone that might be interested in the crossover of Psychedelics, Art, Art Therapy, Creativity, and Non-Ordinary States Consciousness.

After briefly describing the way Psychedelics, Art, Creativity, and Art Therapy relate to each other, we provide you with resources that might help you explore this area further.  This includes:

  • A list of Art Therapists/Expressive Therapists doing this work

  • Video and audio recordings of people speaking to this topic

  • Facebook groups

  • Psychedelic training programs

  • Psychedelic organizations and psychedelic news sources

  • Museums and venues that feature psychedelic/visionary art

  • Art Therapy organizations

  • List of Visionary Artists

  • Reference List

If there is anything you think we should add, please reach out to Rebecca Wilkinson at raw1717@gmail.com.

Why Art and Psychedelics?

If you are arriving at this page, you probably have some interest in the way that psychedelics, art, creativity, and/or art therapy have been or can be related.  There is a rich history to explore, many avenues down which you can venture, and lots of possibilities to manifest.  Art and Psychedelics have been interwoven throughout the ages.  In fact, it is through art that wee know about our history with these magical substances.  This is likely because of the powerful visual nature of the psychedelic experience and the spectacular imagery that Visionary Artists have brought to the world.  The arc of art’s relationship is rich and worthy of a deep dive (Grey, 2017; Grof, 2019; Masters & Houston, 1978).  We just touch on that here and refer you to sources that can give you more on the topic.

Psychedelics Redux

As you may know, psychedelics are experiencing a resurgence of clinical research and a gradual softening of stigma after 50 years of prohibition.  That stranglehold, imposed by the politically and socially corrupt War on Drugs, has finally begun to loosen.  Now many of these medicines are thankfully being decriminalized and some even legalized.  What appears to be emerging through the growing body of research is their ability to improve wellbeing and treat challenging problems like PTSD, anxiety, addictions, trauma, treatment resistant depression and end-of-life distress.  You can imagine the profound impact this could have for people who are struggling with conditions that have left them feeling helpless, hopeless, and trapped in their despair.

The benefits of psychedelics seem to reside in their capacity to promote neuroplasticity, dampen fear responses, loosen preconceived beliefs, alter sense of self and dissolve the ego, increase feelings of unity, and access mystical, transpersonal states (Carhart-Harris & Friston, 2019).  Perhaps most importantly, they take us out of our ordinary existence and into something bigger.

Art therapy is really well matched for this work because, like psychedelics, artmaking taps into parts of the mind and consciousness not easily accessible during ordinary waking states and circumvents our verbal and cognitive defenses..  Externalizing the experience into a concrete form also helps to ground it and gives us ways to engage more meaningfully with extraordinary experiences that can be so difficult to verbally articulate.  Psychedelics take us to the deepest reaches of consciousness and art brings that back for us to see.  It makes effable the ineffable!

Psychedelic Art Therapy

Psychedelic Art Therapy looks at the mechanisms at play in art therapy and the creative process (Csamanski-Cohen & Weihs, 2016; Malhotra, 2024) and how those interface with psychedelics.  We will be publishing an in-depth article on this topic soon in the American Art Therapy Journal, outlining the contributions that psychedelics bring to art therapy; the ways that artmaking, creativity, and art therapy compliment psychedelics processes; and what art therapy brings to the psychedelic world; and how to apply this in clinical practice during the different phases of psychedelic assisted therapy.

There are many ways that art and art therapy enhance psychedelic work.  We’ll list a few that we think are most outstanding.

  • Art gives us a way to express feelings, thoughts, sensations, and impressions that we experience before, during and after the psychedelic experience that can be so difficult to articulate in words.

    • Making a concrete form separate and outside of ourselves mirrors the detachment from the identified ego that psychedelics produce.

    • This lets us recognize, dialogue with, and move towards accepting ourselves–our shadow, True Self, our parts, etc.

    • Like with psychedelics, this distance also helps relax fixed beliefs, shifts perceptions, and generates alternative narratives.

  • The images we make, even if they are only very simple sketches, are not only a personal signature, but they also give us transpersonal and archetypal metaphors.

  • Art deepens our relationship with ourselves and with others–it gives us a way to be see and be seen, to know and be known.

  • It helps us tap into, give voice to, and witness our Inner Healer, a source of innate intelligence that inherently knows how to guide us toward healing.

  • It helps to capture the download, messages that our unconscious minds and/or perhaps even sources of higher consciousness are revealing to us.

  • It can deepen our understanding of and help manage “bad” or challenging trips.

  • Making art before and after a journey can give us a vivid contrast of changes we undergo as a result of the experience.

  • It gives us a personalized roadmap of where we want to take insights we got from the journey into our lives.

  • It can serve a visual  anchor that can evoke instant recall even years later.

  • It can be woven into and support any number of other therapeutic orientations and approaches–Jungian, Archetypal, Depth Psychology, Transpersonal, Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Somatic work, Focusing, etc.

Caveats

Before you proceed, we put forth what we consider to be very important caveats:

  • We are not advocating the use of drugs.

  • We are also not shaming the use of drugs.

  • People use psychedelic for many reasons, not all of them clinical (e.g. self-exploration, bonding with others, enhancing creativity, learning more about consciousness, etc.)

  • Psychedelics are not the panacea for all woes in this world, either personal or collective.

  • Tread very lightly.  Psychedelics journeys can be very challenging–physically, emotionally, psychologically, psychically, and interpersonally.

  • Proper support is critical, especially with preparation, set & setting, and establishing safety.

  • Help with integration has been proven to make a big difference both in managing difficult experiences and maximizing benefits from the journey.

  • Psychedelics have social, political, and cultural complexities that makes access to them more difficult for some than others and that have consequences that are not always beneficial, especially for indigenous groups from which many of the medicines and the practices that surround them originate.

  • Psychedelics can trigger traumatic memories and responses, therefore people facilitating this work should receive training in working with trauma.

  • Bringing art into psychedelic work is a natural match but art, just like psychedelics, can open us up and so we suggest that people get training in how to introduce art into psychedelic work safely and ethically (some of the art therapists listed below provide this kind of training).

  • We are still learning about psychedelics and so we must proceed with caution–they hold great promise but there is still much to learn.

Other Practitioners/Therapists Working with Arts and Psychedelics

Videos

  • PBC Horizon Films

    • Films showcasing facets of psychedelics

    • https://www.horizonspbc.com/films

      • COVI-19, Black Lives, and Psychedelics

      • Nature, Summer, & Psychedelics

      • Focus on Clinical Research Episode 1: The Johns Hopkins Story

      • Focus on Clinical Research Episode 2: Death Dying, and Psychedelics

      • Focus on Indigenous Communities

      • The Psychedelics Economy

      • Ways of Seeing

Psychedelic Facebook Groups

(Please note that we do not include Facebook groups that are run by individual businesses)

Psychedelic Training Programs


Psychedelic Organizations and News Sources


Museums and Venues That Feature Psychedelic/Visionary Art


Art Therapy Organizations


Psychedelic Artists (to name just a few)

(Please let us know if you would like your name included or if you know of someone whose name should be added raw1717@gmail.com)

  • Lobsang Melendez Ahuana

  • Pablo Amarigno

  • Trina Brammah

  • Lesley Anne Burke, LPC, ATR

  • Helena Arturaleza

  • Howard Charing

  • Cryptic

  • Mariela de la Paz

  • Chris Dyer

  • Pascal Ferry

  • A. Andrew Gonzalez

  • Alex Grey

  • Allyson Grey

  • Brigitte Grof

  • Stanislav Grof

  • Mark Henson

  • David Heskin

  • Martina Hoffmann

  • Andrew Jones

  • Mati Klarwein

  • Li Lian Kolster

  • Paul Laffoley

  • Vanni Mangoni

  • Mars-1

  • Peter Max

  • Mugwort

  • Michael Park

  • Boris Quinteros

  • Brus Rubio

  • Amanda Sage

  • Damon SouleShrine

  • Autumn Skye

  • Luis Tamani

  • Jen Stark

  • Robert Venosa

  • Wes Wilson


Psychedelics, Art, Creativity and Art Therapy References

(Please let us know of other references that you think belong in this list–email Rebecca raw1717@gmail.com)

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Czamanski-Cohen, J., & Weihs, K. L. (2016). The bodymind model: A platform for studying the mechanisms of change induced by art therapy. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 51, 63-71.

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