Tim Read

Tim is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author based in London. After degrees in neuroscience and medicine, he was consultant liaison psychiatrist at the Royal London Hospital for 20 years also heading the crisis intervention service and developing psychological treatments for psychiatric emergencies. He held posts of Clinical Director and Director of Training.

He was drawn to psychiatry by the work of C.G.Jung and has completed trainings in psychoanalytic psychotherapy (group analyst) and transpersonal psychology with Stanislav Grof (GTT). Tim has been a certified facilitator of holotropic breathwork since 2007.

Tim is extensively involved in training and supervision of psychedelic therapists in clinical trials and feels passionately that psychedelic substances should be used with compassion and skill so that the formative wounds that underpin so much of our individual and collective distress may become more available for healing.

With Maria Papaspyrou, he is co-director of the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (IPT) and co-facilitator of the 2 year IPT training in Depth Relational Process.

Tim is author of Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth and co-editor with Jules Evans of Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency and co-editor with Maria Papaspyrou of Psychedelics and Psychotherapy published in 2021.

Website : https://instituteofpsychedelic...