The Ketamine Therapy Patient Guide: What to Expect from IV Infusions, Spravato, At-Home Treatment, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Before, During - Paperback

by Don Arthur Burrows (Author)

Two tabs open. Thirty times the price. The same three words.

One clinic quotes four thousand dollars for six infusions. A website quotes one hundred and twenty-nine dollars a month. Both pages say "ketamine therapy." Neither explains what the other one is, and neither is lying to you.

What this book does

There are four routes into ketamine treatment, and they differ in legal status, in who is in the room with you, in cost by a factor of thirty, and in how much evidence stands behind each one. This book compares them directly: intravenous racemic ketamine, esketamine nasal spray, at-home sublingual treatment at therapeutic dose, and daily low-dose subscriptions, along with the ketamine-assisted psychotherapy that can be built around any of them. It covers candidacy and contraindications, what a session actually feels like, integration afterward, and what to do if the treatment does not work.

Why this book is different

It was written by a registered mental health practitioner with no clinic to fill and no platform to promote. Nearly every other source of information about ketamine treatment sits downstream of a business that provides ketamine treatment. That independence is why this book can carry a full chapter on treatment failure, an honest account of what the research does and does not establish, and a plain statement that for some readers the answer is no.

What you get

A four-route comparison table. A twelve-month cost worksheet in dollars and pounds. Eleven questions that separate a clinic from a business in a single phone call. A self-directed integration protocol for readers who cannot afford a therapist. A chapter written for the person who drives you home. Coverage of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Ireland that American sources leave out.

This book is for readers who

are weighing ketamine treatment and cannot find a straight comparison; are partners or family members asked to sit with someone during a session; are therapists supporting clients through a treatment they were never trained in; are mental health nurses and clinicians working in ketamine services; or have already tried ketamine and are working out what comes next.

If you want a clear, structured account of ketamine treatment written by someone with nothing to sell you, this book offers a practical place to begin.