Jacques Mabit

Jacques Mabit earned his MD from the Université de Nantes (France) and specialized in Tropical and Natural Medicine. He worked as a physician in several countries in collaboration with organizations such as Medecins Sans Frontières. In 1986, his career and spiritual path led him to move permanently to Peru where he eventually became a naturalized citizen. Mabit has dedicated the last two decades of his life to studying the use of altered states of consciousness in Amazonian mestizo and indigenous healing rituals and integrating these studies into his work as a physician and psychotherapist. He is co-founder and director of the Takiwasi Center that has become an international exemplar for complementary treatment of drug abuse with the help of ayahuasca and many other emetic and psychoactive plants (“teacher-plants”) used traditionally in the context of Amazonian vegetalismo. In relation to this work he has founded the Consejo Interamericano Sobre la Espiritualidad Indígena (CISEI-Mexico) and the Red Internacional de Médicos Tradicionales Ayahuasqueros (RIMTAY-Peru); he also holds the title of Research Professor at the Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Científica del Sur (Lima-Peru) and he has been named an Honorary Member of the College of Peruvian Psychologists.