Jason M. Thompson, PhD is a writer and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at UCSF. He is the author of Running is a Kind of Dreaming, a memoir about trauma recovery published in 2021 by Harper Collins. He is an ordained Zen Buddhist and certified yoga teacher. In 2022 he completed training in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for veterans with PTSD and he currently provides ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for veterans and serves as a therapist and clinical supervisor on a current UCSF clinical trial of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for palliative care.