Re:Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?
by coldtea on Saturday September 07, 2019 @07:08PM
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>Psychedelics have mostly been investigated in small studies run by true believers.
This looks like ascertaining what it should prove. How do we know they were "true believers"? Because they did psychedelic studies?
>Back when psychoanalysis was new, the whole world was full of people telling their amazing success stories about how Dr. Freud helped them obtain true insight and get real closure. I think of psychotherapy as a domain where people can get as many amazing success stories as they want whether or not they’re really doing anything right, for unclear reasons.
Not an argument.
>Between 10% and 50% of Americans have tried psychedelics. If psychedelics did something shocking, we would already know about it.
Which psychedelics, under what conditions, how often? Also, I seriously doubt anywhere close to 25% has taken psychedelics, for example (a number halfway between the 10 and 50%). I don't have the numbers, but I'd say 50% was not even true in 1967 San Francisco...
This looks like ascertaining what it should prove. How do we know they were "true believers"? Because they did psychedelic studies?
>Back when psychoanalysis was new, the whole world was full of people telling their amazing success stories about how Dr. Freud helped them obtain true insight and get real closure. I think of psychotherapy as a domain where people can get as many amazing success stories as they want whether or not they’re really doing anything right, for unclear reasons.
Not an argument.
>Between 10% and 50% of Americans have tried psychedelics. If psychedelics did something shocking, we would already know about it.
Which psychedelics, under what conditions, how often? Also, I seriously doubt anywhere close to 25% has taken psychedelics, for example (a number halfway between the 10 and 50%). I don't have the numbers, but I'd say 50% was not even true in 1967 San Francisco...