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Psychedelics for depression and PTSD | Professor and cognitive neuropsychiatrist Susan Rossell, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Exposure Therapy for OCD

We often use exposure therapy with OCD. What we're talking about here is a cognitive or any exposure paradigm to your own inner kind of fears and urges. So there are non-pharmacological ways of going of doing exposure therapy. If someone's thinking, you know, maybe the psychedelics are not for them. You can go through that. Yes. And so one of the arguments with the psychedelic assisted psychotherapy is we're exposing them to their inner demons. There's this freeing up and opening of the brain is allowing them access to things that people might have repressed. Yeah, absolutely.

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