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The psychologists signing up for psychedelic therapy training: ‘Amazing things can happen’ Jenny Valentish When growing up in Yea, in rural Victoria, Campbell Townsend took a dim view of drugs. “My parents were born in the shadow of Nixon’s war on drugs, and I was a very simple country boy,” the psychologist says, sitting in his cottage outside Castlemaine. “I grew up with stories from my parents about friends of theirs at university going crazy just from one choof of a bong.” Townsend’s fears persisted until he read journalist Michael Pollan’s 2018 book, How...

The efforts of the Multidisciplinary Society for Psychedelic Research (MAPS) to legalize prescription ecstasy (Ecstasy) seem to have crossed a huge obstacle.

The world is struggling with an “epidemic of mental health, depression, anxiety,” Jason Silva said Thursday at Benzinga&rsquo...

Scientific American The illegal substance—paired with intensive therapy and hard work—dramatically improves PTSD symptoms Advertisement A long-awaited study is making worldwide headlines for finding that the outlawed psychoactive drug MDMA is startlingly effective in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But researchers and study participants say the substance itself, while extremely powerful, catalyzes healing rather than working on its own: MDMA treatment also requires dozens of hours of therapy—before, during and after the drug experience—with professionals whose special ...

The portrait taken with her pigeon Birdie just after the procedure In 1970, Amanda Feilding caused a furore after drilling a hole into her own skull (yes, really!). After decades of being dismissed as an oddball, her belief in the benefits of psychedelic drugs is suddenly being taken seriously   'I am not really in love with ketamine,’ states Amanda Feilding, the Countess of Wemyss and March. It’s a rather startling revelation for a 78-year-old woman of impeccable manners who looks as though her field of expertise may be some finer point of social etiquette. But Amanda has never been a ...