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

Mad in America

She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She is also a writer and producer on Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.