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@SashaSisko New York Magazine MAPS Rick Doblin, Ph.D., of MAPS Lily Kay Ross MDiv PhD David Nickles Psymposia We would rather be doing so many other things with our time than pointing out bad behavior & preventable harms. I got into the psychedelics field because I wanted to study trip reports; but I learned there were shady things happening that needed to be talked about, unfortunately.

The claim that "there are currently 120 studies of ketamine treatments for mental illness in [adolescent] population" is tmk very, very false. It's hard to keep track, but ruehr.org/shiny/PsyChild/ lists less than 15 ongoing trials with this indication in this population.

First of a 2-parter looking at the story of David Harder and ATMA Journey Centers. David was charged with sexual assault earlier this year. This story explores his and ATMA's emergence in Canada's psychedelic industry and asks what the industry can learn. ecstaticintegration.org/p/atmas-journe…

Seems extra arbeitary when considering that TR-PTSD is more often than not defined as one failed psychotherapeutical and one failed pharmacological intervention. Also the reason why I still assign TRD study entries in the PsyChild database as MDD (which seems vague enough).

Daniel Pinchbeck, self styled ‘hero’ of the psychedelic space has taken to Instagram in a lengthy defence of Russell Brand. Remind yourself that the man himself is also a nonce. psymposia.com/podcasts/abusi…

Not all therapists who touch patients will abuse them, but almost all therapists who sexually abuse patients will have touched them in seemingly 'harmless' ways before, eroding boundaries and building trust. Quote below from patient/victim of Ingrasci newspapers.com/article/the-bo…

Thank you Philipp Rühr 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 for this incredible database on the experiments of psychotropic drugs on children, very usefull for historians!

On the psychedelic guide industrial complex. From what I've seen, most psychedelic harms are interpersonal — exacerbated by power imbalances w/ strangers claiming spiritual authority. Guides can't be described as necessary to harm reduction when they're often the source of harm.

Children mostly accept the reality with which they're presented, which is why society's push to normalise for them the medicalisation/pathologisation of their suffering (erasing social, relational, spiritual, humanistic perspectives), is the opposite of preparing them for life.

PsyChild has a new domain: psychild.info Also major update: archival records and ongoing/discontinued studies are now listed separately.

Happy to share my article for the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center's Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype online symposium. "Let Go and Surrender: Considerations on MDMA Couples Therapy and Coercive Control" (CW: domestic violence, sexual abuse) blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/02/23/let…