Phil Wolfson Doctor of Medicine from New York University. He is the creator of a new modality of psychotherapy based on the use of ketamine: ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP). Phil is the executive director of the nonprofit Ketamine Research Foundation and directs the training of KAP professionals through the Ketamine Training Center, which now has more than 900 professionals in the US and internationally.

He is the author of The Ketamine Papers and “Noe – A Father/Son Song of Love, Life, Illness and Death.” He has been the principal investigator of the MAPS Phase 2 study of MDMA treatment for people with life-threatening illnesses. Dr. Wolfson’s work is the result of an intense clinical practice in psychiatry and psychotherapy spanning many decades.

Phil Wolfson is a 1960s activist, psychiatrist/psychotherapist, writer, practicing Buddhist, and psychonaut who has lived in the Bay Area, New York, for 46 years. In the 1980s, he participated in clinical research with MDMA (ecstasy). He has created 9 patents for ketamine and unique herbal medicines. Phil was a founding member of the Heffter Research Institute. He is a journalist and author of numerous articles on politics, transformation, psychedelics, consciousness and spirit.