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Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC

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Patti Smith: The Grace of Starting Again
12/15/2016
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
BLOG: When our patients stumble and berate themselves for their failures, could we give them the space not to be perfect, but rather, to endure their stumbles as opportunities for grace and humility?
BLOG: When our patients stumble and berate themselves for their failures, could we give them the space not to be perfect, but rather, to endure their stumbles as opportunities for grace and humility?
BLOG: When our patients stumble...
12/15/2016
Psych Congress Network
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Psilocybin Studies: A New Ray of Hope for Psychiatry?
12/01/2016
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
BLOG: These studies were the latest findings showing that psychedelics, erroneously dismissed as mere intoxicants and swept up in the hysteria of the Nixon-era drug wars, could prove to be as important to psychiatry as penicillin was to...
BLOG: These studies were the latest findings showing that psychedelics, erroneously dismissed as mere intoxicants and swept up in the hysteria of the Nixon-era drug wars, could prove to be as important to psychiatry as penicillin was to...
BLOG: These studies were the...
12/01/2016
Psych Congress Network
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Clinician Shame: Making Peace With the Unfixable
02/29/2016
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
We perpetuate the feeling of being not good enough through slights and microaggressions that we unconsciously inflict upon our peers and colleagues.
We perpetuate the feeling of being not good enough through slights and microaggressions that we unconsciously inflict upon our peers and colleagues.
We perpetuate the feeling of...
02/29/2016
Psych Congress Network
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Not Good Enough: Addressing the Cancer of Clinician Shame
02/10/2016
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
Approximately 750 of our fellow physicians, nurses, psychotherapists take their own lives each year, making it imperative that we begin to explore and understand the despair within our ranks.
Approximately 750 of our fellow physicians, nurses, psychotherapists take their own lives each year, making it imperative that we begin to explore and understand the despair within our ranks.
Approximately 750 of our fellow...
02/10/2016
Psych Congress Network
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Psychedelics: What to Tell Patients Today
08/25/2015
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
Psychedelic compounds are powerful, and they have great potential to help patients with intractable conditions. Yet any compound with that kind of power also has the potential to harm, and that harm should not be trivialized.
Psychedelic compounds are powerful, and they have great potential to help patients with intractable conditions. Yet any compound with that kind of power also has the potential to harm, and that harm should not be trivialized.
Psychedelic compounds are...
08/25/2015
Psych Congress Network
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How Psychedelics May Be Used to Accelerate Psychotherapy
08/19/2015
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
Personal reports from treatment subjects are as compelling as the quantitative data.
Personal reports from treatment subjects are as compelling as the quantitative data.
Personal reports from treatment...
08/19/2015
Psych Congress Network
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Can Psychedelics Target Overly Rigid Brain Networks?
07/30/2015
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
The idea of using these drugs as catalysts for psychotherapeutic change challenges biological psychiatry’s predominant orientation towards mental disease as something that is managed or palliated, but not cured.
The idea of using these drugs as catalysts for psychotherapeutic change challenges biological psychiatry’s predominant orientation towards mental disease as something that is managed or palliated, but not cured.
The idea of using these drugs as...
07/30/2015
Psych Congress Network
Andrew Penn
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A Brave New World for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy?
07/20/2015
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
For clinicians who have only encountered these substances in the context of patients who are abusing them for their intoxicating qualities, inquiries into the therapeutic potential of these compounds may seem bewildering, even reckless.
For clinicians who have only encountered these substances in the context of patients who are abusing them for their intoxicating qualities, inquiries into the therapeutic potential of these compounds may seem bewildering, even reckless.
For clinicians who have only...
07/20/2015
Psych Congress Network
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Cannabis Exposure May Lead to Psychosis
01/12/2015
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
Schizophrenia typically emerges in late adolescence and early adulthood, before the age of 25.
Schizophrenia typically emerges in late adolescence and early adulthood, before the age of 25.
Schizophrenia typically emerges...
01/12/2015
Psych Congress Network
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Does Cannabis Delay Emotional Maturity? More Reasons to Hold Off on Using Cannabis Until Adulthood
08/21/2014
Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC
I have a common kind of patient in my practice—he is somewhere in his late teens or early twenties, usually living at home, maybe taking a class or two at the community college, more often working but certainly not able to support himself...
I have a common kind of patient in my practice—he is somewhere in his late teens or early twenties, usually living at home, maybe taking a class or two at the community college, more often working but certainly not able to support himself...
I have a common kind of patient...
08/21/2014
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