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The therapeutic potential of MDMA

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Dealing With Trauma

There's a patient you quote in the book who describes her experience on NDMA as being transformed into a childlike state. And I know some people hear stuff like that and they think, I don't want to uncover terrible memories. But I think the mistake there is thinking that ignoring these things means they're not impacting us. The story about a man I think his name is Dave or David. Yeah, Dave Pounds. He took part in an MDMASIS therapy study for alcoholism. It brought him back to a memory when he was a kid of his mother being murdered and him witnessing that murder.

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