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Charlie Morgan's avatar

As much as I hope that psychedelic therapy will become a reality, I think we are a long way off. At least in the United States, both marijuana and psilocybin are still considered Schedule I. Yes, we've seen some progress with marijuana which has proven beneficial for a variety of different medical conditions. But progress is still slow and not everyone who needs it has access too it.

That is a whole other bucket of worms. In the US, therapy is treated as a luxury. Often those who are the most traumatized don't have access to even basic therapy.

However, I fully believe in the power of psychedelics. I hope to one day used them used regularly in therapeutic practices.

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stacey simmons's avatar

Fantastic article! In my own psychotherapy practice we have two clinicians (myself and the other clinical supervisor) who are trained, certified psychedelic therapists. With both patients and new clinicians we explore a depth/psychoanalytic approach making room and encouraging the patient’s subjective experience and working with them to develop a unique, individual therapeutic language that asks them to allow a dialogue between the conscious and unconscious. Even with this, many clients WANT magic, this is not something we can provide, obviously, but we do encourage clients to unlearn that there is an objective meaning to their subjective experience. Thus they are free to create meaning for themselves regardless of our clinical judgment. I don’t know if you are familiar with the current development of clinical applications of TCAI/AICT auto-induced cognitive trance in France? This intervention is fascinating and has some early promising neuroscientific findings that are encouraging. I am being trained in this modality, and we have a first clinical workshop to share this method with psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and researchers in 2025 in New York. Your article was a fantastic read. I wish I had used some of your references in a book on psychedelic mushrooms coming out next year!

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