Biography

Anthony P. Bossis, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, an adjunct professor of classics and religious studies at University of Ottawa, and an Investigator at The Lundquist Institute. He is a researcher at the NYU Center for Psychedelic Medicine and since 2006 has been conducting FDA-approved clinical research with the psychedelic compound psilocybin. Dr. Bossis was director of palliative care research and co-principal investigator on the 2016 clinical trial demonstrating a significant reduction in emotional distress from a single psilocybin session in persons with cancer. He is study director and lead therapist on an FDA-approved clinical trial investigating a psilocybin-generated mystical experience upon religious leaders. Dr. Bossis, in collaboration with researchers at UCLA and UCSF, is currently developing the first national multi-center protocol investigating psilocybin in existentiallydistressed patients in palliative care settings. Dr. Bossis is a training supervisor of psychotherapy at NYU-Bellevue Hospital Center and cofounder and former co-director of the Bellevue Hospital Palliative Care Service. He is a faculty member for CPTR at CIIS and for the Integrative Thanatology Certificate Training Program at the Art of Dying Institute/Open Center. Dr. Bossis is on the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and a guest editor (with Charles Grob, M.D.) for the journal’s Special Series on Psychedelics. He has a long-standing interest in comparative religion and mystical experience and on the interface of psychology and spirituality. He maintains a private psychotherapy and consulting practice in NYC.