Can Underground Psychedelic Therapy Ever Go Mainstream ? - Pacific Standard
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Hallucinogenic therapy, a longstanding underground therapeutic movement, is now reaching research institutions like Johns Hopkins. Studies explore the ability of psychedelics to amplify access to thoughts and feelings. Research results are promising enough that the Food and Drug Administration recently designated MDMA-assisted psychotherapy a “breakthrough therapy” for post-traumatic stress disorder, which essentially fast-tracks the last phase of clinical trials before medicalization.
“You can get to content that usually would have heightened defenses,” Holly says of psychedelic therapy. “It’s assisted therapy. It’s really all it is.” A 2016 study in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration found that, for successful psychotherapy outcomes, “the most important common factor was the therapeutic alliance,” meaning the relationship between the patient and therapist.
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