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

Mad in America

Author’s note: For transparency, I am the co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics, a state-approved training center for psilocybin mushroom practitioners in Colorado. Taking all of this into consideration, the question for me has become: Do psychedelics represent something meaningfully different here?

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Therapy by Script Undermines Healing; Connection Is the Key

Mad in America

Eugene Gendlin In a previous blog, I wrote about my experiences in psychedelic therapy, and the ways that the psychedelic-assisted therapy model by design perpetuates one of our cultures deepest wounds: feeling alone. Listening shows that the nature of human beings is nothing like socialized content.