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#57: Psychedelics & Microdosing Research - Harriet De Wit, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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The Importance of Expectations in Psychotherapy

I think it won't be the mainstream pharmaceutical industry that will get involved in it. I think it would have to be available under very controlled circumstances because you don't want to use it irresponsibly. And certainly for these high dose psilocybin studies, there's no way you would want to give a drug like that in a situation where the subjects are not prepared and where they don't know what they're in for. It could be that the beneficial effects of the drug might be a combination of having certain expectancies and then giving the drug as well.

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