Listening To Esctasy with Charles Wininger

Captain Hugh T Alkemi aka Trevahr Hughes hosts this our first show of January 2021. Charley and Trevahr talk with intention about how to enjoy Molly, E, Ecstacy or MDMA and his latest book Listening to Ecstasy. Other mentions: MAPS.orgRick DoblinMescalinePsilocybinMagic MushroomsShulginPsychotherapyTantraCouples therapyMarriage counselingDrug ReformRavesSocial Distancing on DrugsListeningtoEcstacy.comBio for our guest:Charley Wininger is a psychotherapist in private practice. Licensed as a Psychoanalyst as well as a Mental Health Counselor, he specializes in relationships and communication skills, and has been treating couples and individuals in his Manhattan and Brooklyn offices for over 30 years.He completed his post-graduate training at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy in New York, and has continued his professional development the past twelve years at New York’s Soma-Psyche Institute, where he learns intuition and empathic attunement skills.He has often been featured in The New York Times and Newsday as “The Love Doctor”, and has appeared several times on tv.For the past 20 years, Charley has been a member of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (www.maps.org), which funds research into the use of MDMA (Ecstasy) for treating PTSD, social anxiety and other ailments. He and his wife Shelley have been instrumental in building the local MAPS community in New York since 2004.Charley sits on the Board of Advisors of The Psychedelic Education and Continuing Care Program at the Center for Optimal Living in New York, and speaks there on the topic of “Psychedelics Across The Lifespan”.Although he doesn’t use MDMA in his therapy practice, he continues to benefit from personal experience with this medicine as it informs and improves his performance as a psychotherapist.