LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• who they are and how they became involved in working with ketamine
• history of ketamine
• streams of usage of ketamine in different settings and at different doses
• routes of administration
• indications and contraindications
• effectiveness
• adverse effects
• thoughts about working with patients in non-ordinary states of consciousness
• current legal status of ketamine in Ontario

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Mark Cornfield MD, FRCPC is a somewhat retired community-based psychiatrist whose career focused on long-term psychotherapy, complex PTSD, dissociative disorders, and couples therapy. He is trained in Imago Relationship therapy, EMDR, and Holotropic Breathwork™. More recently he completed Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) training at the Orenda Institute, and also with Dr. Phil Wolfson.

Since 2018, along with his life-partner Susan McBride, he has been treating patients with treatment-resistant depression using ketamine. They have also done pioneering work using low dose ketamine to facilitate couples therapy. Dr. Cornfield has a special interest in ketamine as an empathogen and facilitator of other therapeutic techniques such as Imago couples therapy and EMDR.

Susan McBride RN, MTS, RSW is a Registered Nurse with experience working in Emergency rooms. She also is a registered Social worker and had a private practice in Hamilton where she focused on trauma therapies and couples therapy. She is trained in Imago Relationship therapy, EMDR and Holotropic Breathwork™. Susan also completed Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) training at the Orenda Institute and with Dr. Phil Wolfson, editor of the ketamine Papers.

Susan has been working alongside Mark, to treat patients using KAP therapy. As a couple, they have been using low dose Ketamine to facilitate deep couples therapy with couples who have previously attended a basic Imago weekend workshop.

 Approved for 1 hour of MDPAC Group CE credits

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