Torsten Passie, MD, PhD

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 worked at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zürich (Switzerland) and with Professor Hanscarl Leuner (Göttingen), a leading European authority on hallucinogenic drugs and psycholytic therapy. From 1998 to 2010 he was scientist and a research psychiatrist at Hannover Medical school (Germany) where he did research on the psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness and their healing potential, including clinical research with hallucinogenic drugs (cannabis, ketamin, nitrous oxide, psilocybin). 2012-2015 he was Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). He is an expert on the pharmacology and clinical/therapeutic use of hallucinogenic and entactogenic  drugs. His publications appeared in Journal of Psychopharmacology, Neuropsychobiology, Addiction Biology, Addiction, CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics and others. He has published around 20 books, including The Pharmacology of LSD 2010 and The History of MDMA 2023, both by Oxford University Press.