LunarWhispers

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Psychedelic Therapist Sexual Misconduct and Other Adverse Experiences Among a Sample of Naturalistic Psychedelic Users https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/psymed.2024.0011

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What if psychedelic use itself is much less psychologically beneficial than the mere fulfillment of all the many conditions that must be met before one can use psychedelics at least somewhat pleasurably?

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"The Therapy Part of Psychedelic Therapy Is a Mess" Another headline implying psychedelic therapy consists of a 'therapy part' plus some other part that is somehow not therapy. That makes about as much sense as speaking of a 'vegetable part' of broccoli. https://www.wired.com/story/psychedelic-therapy-mess/

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If therapy makes me have less negative expectations about certain difficult situations, and then I stop avoiding these situations, master them increasingly, and enter a self-reinforcing loop of need-fulfilling experiences, is that a placebo effect? Or a "real" effect of therapy?

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"One anesthetic experience is like ten thousand hours of surgery"

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Must anesthetics always "assist surgery?" Anesthetic-assisted surgery is well-established and often taken for granted, but how important is the "surgery component" really? Well, not very, as it turns out (at least for pain-related conditions)... https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/12/e009655

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Strange how people misread my posts on analogies between psychedelics & anesthetics as "true believer" advocacy. Read the article! There were massive problems with 19th century anesthesia: - dangerous practices - poor understanding - abuse & charlatanerie - profiteering - ...

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"Unfortunately, lack of understanding about anesthesia meant that all deaths and complications were viewed as an indictment against the discipline, rather than the limitations of practitioners or characteristics of patients." Sounds familiar?

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Is history repeating itself? Medical and societal skepticism towards anesthesia in the mid-19th century revolved around similar topics as current discourses about psychedelics. Some of the parallels are really striking! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352452914200053

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It’s high time the field of psychedelic research move beyond the mystical experience construct (MEQ). While many critiques of the measure rest on misconceptions, persistent misunderstandings & psychometric limitations lead us to recommend transcending it.

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Why do the pharmaceutical companies that develop anesthetic drugs never try to question, minimize, or conceal the "surgery component" of the treatments that their products facilitate?

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"Did not use therapy" is an inaccurate representation of the study protocol

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Factor mixture modeling incorporates continuous & categorical latent variables in a single analytic model clustering items & observations simultaneously. Here we used it to identify 5 distinct profiles of change-mechanism-related psychedelic experiences. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02698811241249698

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Let's not turn a blind eye to suffering.

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chill and drink 👨‍💻

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Deep within the heart of the forest, where shadows dance and whispers linger, there lies a world unseen by most. The ethereal lights that drift between the trees are not merely reflections of the moon but the spirits of the past, wandering in a realm where time stands still. What stories do these ancient woods hold? What mysteries lie beyond the mist?

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