Biography

Torsten Passie, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Hannover Medical School (Germany). He studied philosophy and sociology (MA) at Leibniz-University and medicine at Hannover Medical School. His medical dissertation was on existential psychiatry. He worked at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zürich (Switzerland) and with Professor Hanscarl Leuner (Göttingen), the leading European authority on hallucinogenic drugs and psycholytic LSD therapy. Dr. Passie’s research at Hannover Medical School covers the psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness and their healing potential, including clinical research with hallucinogenic drugs (cannabis, ketamine, nitrous oxide, psilocybin). He serves on the board of the Swiss Medical Society for Psycholytic Therapy and is an international expert on the pharmacology of hallucinogenic drugs and their psychotherapeutic use. He was Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA) 2012-2015. His publications appeared in Journal of Neuropsychobiology, Psychopharmacology, Addiction, CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, and others.