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Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

Mad in America

I believe the outcomes of psychedelic healing are what many MIA readers also want, but anti-drug sentiment and a very real history of psychiatric harms are big roadblocks to move through. This concentration of ownership contradicts the ethos of community access and shared knowledge that has characterized historical psychedelic use.

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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

Mad in America

Psychedelic therapy advocates consistently dismiss these concerns as exaggerated or isolated incidents that are inevitable in any therapy. Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. In 2023, Dryer resigned her medical license.