Depression treatment: first clinical application of psilocybin in Switzerland

Last Updated on March 4, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org

Press release from September 12, 2023

The Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich is one of the first university hospitals in the world to offer psilocybin-assisted therapies for adults with difficult-to-treat depression. After various studies showed that the psychedelic ingredient of the mushrooms can have a positive effect on the depressive mood of patients, psilocybin has been used clinically since this summer.

https://www.pukzh.ch/news/depressions-behandlung-erste-klinische-anwendung-von-psilocybin

Someone who is particularly interested in psilocybin is Swiss Zen priest and million heir Vanja Palmers

Palmers is particularly interested in the rehabilitation of those substances that gave his life a fundamentally new, expanded perspective, within the framework of scientific or therapeutic application.

https://www.felsentor.ch/vanja-palmers

Vanja Palmers is also author for the Mind Foundation:

https://www.mind-foundation.org/blog/synergy-meditation-psychedelics

The MIND Foundation

is a European non-profit organization, who promote psychedelic science to build a healthier, more connected world through evidence-based, safe, and legal applications of the psychedelic experience.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/mind-foundation-eu

But all the same, in spite of all this psychedelic research and success stories. Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org

things one of the happiest man in Switzerland is Lama Pema Wangyal.

Has Matthieu Ricard become a hobbyist among the meditators whereas Lama Pema Wangyal from Switzerland is among the world champions now?

And is there a person who says he is happier with psylocibin than with meditation? Yes, there is one, and that is Vanja Palmers, who said he was not able to induce the same mental states with meditation than with psylocibin.