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“As the 2010s rolled on, the Carhart-Harris group at Imperial College consistently found precisely what they had expected to find” (lmao)

This is so misleading — more clear evidence of how entrenched dubious ideas about memory are in psychedelic therapy.

The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’ When a man shoots his wife and children, the term you are looking for is patriarchy.

Thank you @profcrunk.bsky.social for calling out the issue underlying the scourge of mass shootings in this country. Mental health is the easy answer, and it is obviously part of the problem, but the patriarchy rotting our society from the roots has to be addressed.

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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Happy 83rd anniversary of the first (macro) LSD trip and don‘t forget: there’s nothing about being high on LSD that makes you better at remembering 🫠

Ultimate nightmare blunt rotation

I would say there's a lot more to connect and we shoudl be extremely weary of anyone continuing Whitaker's legacy of psychedelic therapy to reveal repressed memories. Yet who does just that by using Holotropic Breathwork as part of training? Monash University.

Funny how they see the parallels between Monash and Whitaker's work, and yet their only conclusion is that this must be an indication of Whitaker -- a sloppy, arrogant doctor with extremely poor clinical judgement, implicated in cult abuses with LSD -- being ahead of his time

They describe his therapy as using LSD to recover repressed memories then suggest this is a good thing that may have been "ahead of its time". This is all extremely MAPS/Grof-coded.

a frustrating but predictable read and conclusion.

I'm sorry, but how can we seriously say this with the shmozle that is MAPS and their retracted MDMA research? We already know very clearly that some of the current erra of research, and nearly all the MDMA research so far, is not "grounded in rigorous science" -- it's grounded in spiritual activism

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Housing affordability is a gender issue!

Thanks so much - the gabor mate dig and photo is so weird ha

Also: the people who know and try to do something about it are frequently punished in extreme and disproportionate ways.

Anyone have access to this? ive given the Australian money before and can’t do it again, especially for this www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-aust...

“A good therapist will tell you snakes symbolise transformation“ says NYT reporter re: his experience of ”surrendering“ to Ibogaine. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Coincidentally, released on the 73rd anniversary of MK Ultra. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

My Father and the Magic Mushrooms For decades, my dad was consumed by alcoholism and anger. I hoped psychedelic therapy could change him.

TLDR he shits himself (literally) on mushrooms and doesn't change -- compelling read (really) nymag.com/intelligence...

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

Soon after telling me this, Phil Wolfson tried to backtrack on our convo. He told the New York Times I had misrepresented my intentions for speaking with him -- this was b/w untrue. I had it fully documented -- he lied to Andrew Jacobs.

"The patient is often part of the issue", Phil Wolfson, November 2024, re: therapists sexually abusing patients.

There is no story that makes it okay for Wolfson to have discovered the abuses and for Michael Mithoefer/MAPS to not know for some significant period of time between Wolfson finding out and the victim-survivor sending an email about it. Whatever story you think makes this okay, doesnt. Full stop.

I think there are many backroom convos happening around MAPS. I think it's not unlikely that these convos also involve people being on drugs and a lot more receptive to stories excusing abuses that are really just the delusions common to all orgs committing a cover-up of deeper issues.

The story is then only really held in the upper management, where it goes unchallenged because of course, the story is bonkers and management across organisations (because at some point, others become involved) collectively acting in the most self-serving way to avoid any challenge to their power.

Almost every case of institutional abuse involves a pattern like this: amongst the upper management, a collective story emerges that absolves who/whatever of whatever the accusations are. This is drip fed to 'lowers' and becomes: you don't know what you're talking about, shut-up,

I think it's likely there are a fair few people who have heard an "insiders" story about Yensen and Dryer's abuses. I also remembering hearing murmurs years ago that there was "more to the story", implying we shouldn't be overly critical of MAPS. This kind of secret-knowledge is very predictable.

@monashuniversity.bsky.social , the school I worked as a research assistant for on the national plan to end violence against women, has been supporting an organisation that is actively flagrantly avoiding accountability for sexual abuse in their clinical trial. It is in all sense of the word: insane

@monashuniversity.bsky.social , my alma mater, is the most embarrassing supporter of MAPS. A university I studied at, for years now, supporting the training of clinicians with Holotropic Breathwork, a New Age anti-psychiatry movement with its core foundations in recovering repressed memories.

It's also an organisation that to this day, is actively covering up abuses in their trial. They knew about Yensen and Dryer *months* before they claim to have found out in order to protect their reputation and avoid financial liability. That's what's happening today and every day.

And to be clear, MAPS always was and has been an org dedicated to Grofian transpersonal psychology. It is plain and simple an org dedicated to *antiscience* and the dismantling of all accountability in mental health care. It's that simple.