Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and personalized mantras to transform | Dr. Jonathan Kanevsky

Added: 2026-04-29

[00:00:00]So surgery ceremony is a protocol that has three parts. The first part is doing is having psychological support immediately. It's like I call it like surgical psychology. So basically in preparation for your procedure, you have you meet with a therapist to go over the intentions, desire, fear, and anxiety that you might have around the surgery.

[00:00:18]>> The protocol that I use uses ketamine as part of the um the process. So it's ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Not a big not a big dose. It's a very light dose, but it helps kind of drop the ego defenses so you can get into the discussion with your therapist. The therapist then >> will elicit certain keywords, mantras, and you know, Dr. Cat, we've we've worked, she she helped uh craft this protocol, amazing therapist to work with. We'll help basically pull out little key phrases, mantras, and things to understand that are unique to that patient that I can then use during surgery because patients are generally awake during their procedures to coach and talk them through it. So, and they're also listening to music during that first part. And this is where the Grateful Dead thing is actually pretty important. the music that sort of like neuro acoustic recall that you hear during this transformative experience where you're dropping into your why you're going to surgery. If that playlist starts playing again during surgery, it it it's it's like a it's like a warm hug. Yeah.

[00:01:10]>> You like, I heard this before. I felt pretty good last time. Let me listen to that music again. And then I also have key phrases and words and intentions that I can say back to the patient of why they're doing this as a