Listening to Ayahuasca

New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety

By: Rachel Harris PhD

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West. Psychologist Rachel Harris here shares her own healing experiences and draws on her original research (the largest study of ayahuasca use in North America) into the powerful medicine's effects on depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety.

In this wide-ranging and personal exploration, Harris details ayahuasca's risks and benefits, helping listeners clarify their intentions and giving psychotherapists a template for transformative care and healing.

©2017 Rachel Harris, PhD (P)2019 Tantor

Very well researched, excellent narration

This was such a well thought out depiction of the research Harris performed. It’s easy to listen to, thought provoking, informative, feels honest.

Latest research!

Its great that is such unanimity in so many experiences. This book is definitely a tide changer.

Keep an Open Mind

This book asks the reader to keep an open mind, not just to the effects of Ayahuasca itself and to the author's experience with it, but also to the author's psychological approach to research on how the plant affects people's lives.

Outstanding

Rachel weaves indigenous traditions with modern ailments in a brilliant and honest way not sparing the reader from her own deep work. First person account of the healing traditions based on a fundamental respect for those people who discovered them.

Great respect for author, narrator not very good

I respect Rachel Harris and recommend her other book Swimming in the Sacred. It is wonderful to find a female voice in this world that is an experienced psychotherapist and an experienced user of psychedelics. The narrator is not very good. She puts a lot of emphasis on certain words to try to convey feeling and make it a moving, emotional story. This is unnecessary and annoying. Let the listener do that for themselves. it's also hard to differentiate between when she's talking about Rachel's experience and someone else's experience. It sounds like a run-on sentence, except that she's emphasizing words to make it emotional, so it's an emotional run-on sentence, that is occasionally confusing and annoying and detracts from the importance of this story.