Kdy: 28. 4. 2026, 18:30
Kde: Gabriel Loci, Holečkova 106/10, Praha 5
From the underground legacies of the 1960s to the clinical frontlines of the 21st century, Dr. Torsten Passie stands as the ultimate bridge in psychedelic history. As the protégé of the legendary Hanscarl Leuner and the definitive authority on the pharmacology of LSD, Passie has spent four decades mapping the delicate intersection of neurobiology and the human soul. While the world was turning its back on „acid,“ Passie was quietly preserving the rigorous protocols of psycholytic therapy. Through his hands have passed the most consequential molecules of the modern psyche: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, cannabis, nitrous oxide — and even the breath itself, each studied with the precision of a scientist and the curiosity of a philosopher. The event will be held in English.
Torsten Passie MD, MA
is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Hannover Medical School (Germany) and Visiting Scientist at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
He studied philosophy, sociology (M.A.) at Leibniz-University, Hannover and medicine at Hannover Medical School.
His prize-winning dissertation was about existential/phenomenological psychiatry.
He was trained at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zürich (Switzerland) and with Professor Hanscarl Leuner (Göttingen), a leading European authority on psychedelic drugs and Psycholytic Therapy.
From 1998 to 2010 he was scientist and a research psychiatrist at Hannover Medical School (Germany) where he did extensive research on the psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness and their healing potential, including clinical research studies with hallucinogenic drugs (cannabis, ketamine, nitrous oxide, MDMA, psilocybin).
From 2012 to 2015 he was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). Since then works a scientist, psychotherapy trainer and the head of a large psychotherapeutic clinic in Germany.
He is an internationally recognized expert on the pharmacology and therapeutic use of hallucinogenic and entactogenic drugs.
His around 100 scientific articles have been published, for example, in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, Neuropsychobiology, Addiction Biology, Addiction, CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics.
He has published 20 books, including The Pharmacology of LSD (2010), Healing with Entactogens (2012), and The History of MDMA (2023), two of them by Oxford University Press.