Learning About Containers in Psychedelic Integration
Starting your journey with psychedelic integration therapy can be rather eye-opening, especially when you do it within a safe environment with the right supervision. However, being a beginner and undergoing your first sessions or even earlier on, you may start to hear about certain terms that are just completely foreign to you.
For instance, what psychedelic therapy container suits you best and how to curate that container is often discussed when beginning psychedelic integration. If you want to learn more about containers in psychedelic integration therapy, continue reading.
What is a Psychedelic Therapy Container?
Container is a term that most psychedelic facilitators, clinical providers, and physicians use to refer to the kind of experience that they want to deliver to a patient. As implied above, an experience is often curated in order to provide psychedelic integration. There’s plenty of prep work involved before the actual administration of the medicines.
Each psychedelic therapy container varies in different components, and every individual would need to have their own personal variation of the container. The better the compatibility, the more ideal the outcome from psychedelic integration.
What are the Different Types of Container?
When it comes to psychedelic integration, the two main types of container that any patient may encounter is recreational and intentional. Recreational container refers to the self-treatment of psychedelic medicines for the purpose of pleasure and potential connection. This experience is usually can be less therapeutic compared to other containers.
Intentional containers are recommended since the exploration of this kind of experience is more distinct and offers further support. A patient is instead taking medicine with intent and attention to healing.
What Makes Up a Container?
An intentional container is created for psychedelic treatment, but, even then there are several differences. A container is made up of different parts to become suitable for the patient undergoing psychedelic integration. Discussing it with a trusted professional who will administer and supervise the experience is a must.
Here are the different pieces that make up a container:
Intake. A client must feel safe when intaking the medicines during psychedelic integration, so there’s a bit of testing and discussions beforehand. Information regarding the intake will be given before a patient consents to the other aspects of a container.
Program. Aside from the intake process, the overall program structure should be clear and concise for every party to understand what goes on during the session. This includes certain boundaries that are not under the scope of the program.
Quality. The quality of the medicine and the services provided should be up to par to deliver an excellent intentional container. Patients should always seek out quality assurance from their psychedelic medicine providers.
Support. Most programs may take longer than traditional medicine treatments since most people may need months of integration or multiple psychedelic sessions over a longer period of time. The plan varies per person and the providers should support the client throughout the journey. The level of support needed should always be fulfilled.
Setting. A safe and ideal setting should always be given to ensure the best experience possible. After all, the environment that’s being structured for a patient is paramount for the psychedelic container.
Conclusion
In summary, the psychedelic containers are the experiences provided by those supervising your treatment session. Many components go into a patient’s container, so be sure to discuss them with a professional.
Interested in psychedelic medicine? Stephanie Lyn Coleman MD is a licensed physician trained in traditional western medicine culture, delivering ketamine therapy, psychedelic integration, and more. Schedule a call today!
