113. Psychedelics and Therapy (with Ben Hearn, LPCC-S)
Very Bad Therapy
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The Pros and Cons of Psychedelic Assisted Therapies
The notion that we can, you know, kind of go into the room and be a disembodied non directive therapists is, I think it's just really bad. And so one of the things that that really concerns me about psychedelic assisted therapies is I don't believe that there is a good professional identity for people who are using psychedelics as therapies. We've got doctors, social workers, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, priests, shamans, indigenous healers and all of these people are coming to use a particular tool. And they're all doing it differently. So what happens if somebody starts trying to talk to you about your irrational cognitions while you're in the influence of psychedelics because
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