“Facilitating the Sacred: The Role of Chaplains in Psychedelic Law and Policy”

Victoria Litman, CSWR, Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology

Victoria Litman, the Petrie-Flom Center Fellow in Psychedelic Law and Spirituality, argues that the current regulatory model’s exclusion of chaplains as psychedelic facilitators undermines the efficacy of psychedelic care. Her essay details the role that chaplains can and should play in psychedelic treatments and makes a forceful case for updating the policy surrounding both clinical and non-clinical psychedelic use to allow for trained chaplains to serve as facilitators.