Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy versus Ketamine Infusion

Read one of the first studies on the emerging Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy model as it compares to the medical model of the Ketamine Infusion Clinic. One of the most interesting contentions between the two models is that Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy maintains that the psychedelic experience itself is an irreducible catalyst for the antidepressant effects of ketamine, while the Ketamine Infusion Clinic seeks to minimize the psychedelic experience (by controlling dose over time), seeking instead to get the antidepressant effect without the psychedelic experience. The question remains: How important is the psychedelic experience itself to creating and maintaining beneficial change and mitigating depression?