Dissertation

• Cavnar, Clancy. The experiences of gay and lesbian people using ayahuasca. PsyD in Clinical Psychology. John F. Kennedy University. 2011 (Unpublished Dissertation).

Articles

• Peluso, D., Sinclair, E., Labate, B., & Cavnar, C. (2020). Reflections on crafting an ayahuasca community guide for the awareness of sexual abuse. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 4(1), 24–33. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2020.00124
• Cavnar, C. (2014). The effects of ayahuasca ritual participation on gay and lesbian identity.Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 46(3), 252–260. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2014.920117.
• Labate, B. C., & Cavnar, C. (2011) Some reflections about the ayahuasca track at the 2010 MAPS “Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century” conference. International Journal of Drug Policy, 22(2), 174–178.  doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2010.09.002
• Assis, Glauber L.; Labate, Beatriz C.; Cavnar, Clancy. Música, tradução e linguagem na diáspora do Santo Daime. Revista de Antropologia, São Paulo, v. 60, n. 1, p. 165-192, may 2017
• Cavnar, C. (2019). What can we learn from studying psychedelics in special populations? MAPS Bulletin, 29(1).
• Labate, B. C., Cavnar, C., & Freedman, F. B. (2014). Notes on the expansion and reinvention of ayahuasca shamanism. In B. C. Labate, & C. Cavnar, (Eds.), Ayahuasca shamanism in the Amazon and beyond (pp. 3–15). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Labate, B. C., & Cavnar, C. (2014). Controversies on the regulation of traditional drug use. In B. C. Labate & C. Cavnar (Eds.), Prohibition, religious freedom, and human rights: Regulating traditional drug use (ix–xvii). Heidelberg: Springer.

Articles Published by Chacruna Institute

• The Effects of Ayahuasca on the Ego
• Cultivating the Mind, Body & Spirit with Ayahuasca
• Can Psychedelics “Cure” Gay People?

Presentation in Congresses

• Cavnar, Clancy.. Reflections On Spirituality, Gender, and Power in my Experience with Santo Daime. Presented at the 2014
  World Ayahuasca Conference, Ibiza, 25-27 September 2014.
• Cavnar, C. 2017. Ayahuasca: Effects on the Ego and Considerations of Use. Paper presented at Psychedelic Science 2017, Oakland Marriot City Center, Oakland, April 19–24

Other Presentations

• Panel: Ayahuasca Healing and Science – Panel with Adele Lafrance, Jessica Nielson, Kim Kuypers, with moderator Clancy Cavnar. Sacred Plants in at the Americas ll [Online conference]. April 23– 25, 2021.
• Presentation on “Psychedelics and Sexual Minorities,” Catalyst Psychedelic Research Conference, May 29–31, 2020. Online.
• Presentation “’It’s Cool to Be Gay’: Psychedelics, Sexuality and Self-Acceptance.” Queering Psychedelics Conference, June 1–2, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
• Presentation, Women’s Forum, California Institute of Integral Studies, “Psychedelics and Gay Conversion,” October 17, 2018.
• Presentation American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Symposium: Psychedelics and psychology—New developments in research and practice. “Psychological healing with ayahuasca. August 9–12, San Francisco, CA.
• Presentations at Psychedelic Science 2017: Day-long workshop with Gabor Maté, Draulio B. Araujo, Juan Carlos Bouso, and Beatriz C. Labate; Presentation on Ayahuasca and the Ego.
• Presentation at Aya2016, World Ayahuasca Conference October 18, 2016, Rio Branco, Brazil. Presentation, “The Role of Identity in Psychological Healing with Ayahuasca.”
• Symposium at the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry 4th International Conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Oct. 30–Nov. 2, 2015. Symposium “Drugs & Divinity: Recovery and Redemption across the Americas.”
• Roundtable and discussion with authors of The Therapeutic Use of Ayahuasca and presentation of research on gay people and ayahuasca, The Women’s Visionary Congress, May 30-June 1, 2014.               
• Presented at Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Science 2013 conference on the effects of ritual ayahuasca participation on gays’ and lesbians’ identity, Oakland, CA, April 19-24, 2013
• Poster on dissertation research, “The effects of participation in ayahuasca rituals on gays’ self-perception,” Division 44, APA Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, July, 31- August 4, 2013.
• Presented research on gay and lesbian experiences with ayahuasca at the Amazon Conference: Amazonian Shamanism, Psychoactive Plants and Ritual Reinvention.  Institute of Medical Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Dec 6-7. 2010.