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I was reluctant to try therapy because I thought I would be on a couch with a condescending person gliding their pen and pad over my hurt.

Danielle Inez Walker in Pittsburgh City Paper. Bearing witness: My path to recovery after trauma rewired my brain

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One of the most important subjective feelings documented both anecdotally and from the research has been connectedness. Rick Doblin explained the peak or mystical experience during psychedelic trips can lead to feelings of connection. For those experiencing severe depression they usually report feelings of disconnect from themselves and relationships with others. Researchers have pinned this as being one of the foundations of healing and can be extremely conducive to the therapeutic alliance.

Rebecca Samuel in The Psychologist. Psychedelics – A tool for therapy? The Breaking Convention 2017 was the 4th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness which gathered both top researchers from around the world, as well as those interested in psychedelics.

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The states of consciousness reached through the use of psychedelics, then, don’t necessarily pre-exist the experience but are, rather, produced in it. Psychedelics, in this sense, aren’t so much revelatory as they are component parts of an assemblage: what they mean and do varies depending on the other technologies, objects, and practices that they’re put in relation to.

Hollis Phelps at Religion Dispatches. Do Pyschedelics Offer A Path To The "God Within"?

Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences by William A. Richards

#book #psychedelics #therapy #religion #religious experience #technology

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My own feeling is that ‘therapy’ needs to recast itself as a way of helping people to understand their predicament in terms of the social environment in which they find themselves.

David at P2P Foundation. What if Psychological Distress came from inequality and domination ?

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The difference worth mentioning is that we can attach to ourselves or attach to something other than ourselves. The first produces ego, the latter community. We should thus be careful what and whom we pay attention to, and what or whom we care about

simsa0 at simas0's wordpress. Attention and Affection

#nurture #affection #therapy

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Even though patients interact with the avatar as though it was a real person, because they have created it they know that it cannot harm them, as opposed to the voices, which often threaten to kill or harm them and their family. As a result the therapy helps patients gain the confidence and courage to confront the avatar, and their persecutor.

Welcome Trust (Press Release). Avatar therapy helps silence voices in schizophrenia

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It is only after all the counselling, and heart and pain resistance checks, that we start with the beating.

Professor Marina Chukhrova quoted in an article by Will Stewart at Mail Online. How to beat your demons, literally: Siberian psychologists thrash patients with STICKS to help them kick their addictions

Addicts are lashed across the buttocks with a cane for £60 a session

Practitioners claim their treatment is based on sound scientific principles
Beatings 'release endorphins' to make patients 'happier in their skin'
If patients show signs of sexual pleasure they stop immediately

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