Learning from Listening: Qualitative Data in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Research - Ilsa Jerome
Channel: MAPS
Date: 2013-08-14

https://2013.psychedelicscience.org
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Learning from Listening: Qualitative Data in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Research

Ilsa Jerome, PhD

MAPS Research and Information Specialist Ilsa Jerome will speak about MAPS' MDMA-assisted psychotherapy long-term follow-up questionnaire data, as well as plans for collecting qualitative information through interviews. She will also present on the challenges of collecting qualitative data and the tension between rich versus shareable data and the loss of meaning from over-quantification or idioscncrasy (e.g. language narratives).

Ilsa Jerome earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Maryland. She helps MAPS and researchers design studies, gathers information on study drugs (as MDMA) through keeping abreast of the current literature and discussion with other researchers, creates and maintains documents related to some MAPS--supported studies, and helps support the MAPS psychedelic literature bibliography. She has written informational documents on psilocybin, LSD and MDMA. She is interested in using methods from behavioral science and neuroscience to learn how humans feel and think about themselves and each other.

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At Psychedelic Science 2013, over 100 of the world's leading researchers and more than 1,900 international attendees gathered to share recent findings on the benefits and risks of LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca, ibogaine, 2C-B, ketamine, DMT, marijuana, and more, over three days of conference presentations, and two days of pre- and post-conference workshops.