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Your Undivided Attention

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The Importance of the Setting, the Psychotherapeutic Context

I spoke about this in my TED talk, but the first time I ever worked with someone with PTSD was in 1984. She took MDMA without a psychotherapeutic context and experiences came up that made her worse off. And then when we did it in a therapeutic context, she went through terrible fears and anxietiesAbout what had actually happened. This person had been quite a long time before in a different country, but he'd said if she ever told anybody about it, he'd kill her. So under two experiences, she was able to work through her trauma. Now she's one of our main therapists, and she trains other therapists. The setting is the context in which you have the

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