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

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This concentration of ownership contradicts the ethos of community access and shared knowledge that has characterized historical psychedelic use. When applied to psychedelic therapy, this approach threatens to strip these experiences of their transformative potential. This shift from pathology to connection is fundamental.

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

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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.