Peter Attia· MD
yes what's going on in our unconscious what's going on deep in our brain the things that were not consciously aware of are so deeply impactful so Freud certainly didn't get everything right but but this concept of the unconscious pulls on us and the ability to integrate those things in a healthy ego that can actually decide and choose I think is as relevant or more so than ever when there's so many pulls away from often city of the self and then the the hope of psychotherapy just shared human experience and psychedelics is to be able to take those defenses down so we can have an experience of self that reflects who we truly are which the vast majority of the time involves acknowledgement of the things that were ashamed of the vulnerabilities the things that we've ensured ourselves against which are often the very things that that keep us away from happiness