The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And I think it's because it can do what we are trying to get at in good therapy, but it can really catalyze that by just putting a person in that part of the brain that can see it for what it is, without all that chatter in the cortex about, hey, got to think it's your father, you won't avoid it again and that makes the repetition compulsion.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And I think where we get somewhere is when we seed ourselves deeper in the brain, which I think we do if, if we're like doing really good therapy and we're, we're in the deep parts of the brain, but these, these psychedelics, the medicinal value I believe is putting us in that part of the brain where a person can really find truth.
And I think it's because it can do what we are trying to get at in good therapy. But it can really catalyze that by just putting a person in that part of the brain that can see it for what it is without all that chatter in the cortex about how you got to think it's your fault or you won't avoid it again and and that makes the repetition compulsion. How do I think ahead to the next thing that might happen and what else bad might happen? I mean, we don't get anywhere doing that.