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

Mad in America

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.

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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

I have had a similarly educative but terrifying experience. Rose: Educations are like that. You write about how people go into therapeutic psychedelic experiences with expectations that “I will find my trauma”. You write that you worry about how psychedelics are getting co-opted by pharmaceutical industries.

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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. It is the only true guide you will ever have.”