Ben Sessa
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244 appearances
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first heard Sep 2018
last heard Jul 2019
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And it's opening up whole new doors in terms of our understanding of consciousness.
Now, another reason why perhaps the psychedelic renaissance is happening is I think there's a general sense of malaise with traditional psychiatry.
I think there's a lot of patients who've been parked on these long-term, lifelong maintenance drugs like SSRIs.
And they're turning to their doctors and they're saying, this ain't working for me.
You've got to have something better.
What else have you got in the cabinet?
So psychiatry itself is undergoing a renaissance.
The psychedelics represent the newest, most innovative form of psychopharmacology for around 75 years.
It's totally new.
Unlike all of these other maintenance drugs, they're the first time that we're using these drugs in a...
sophisticated way to enhance psychotherapy to get to the root cause of trauma.
And I think this is a much more sophisticated and clever pharmacology way of tackling these problems.
So it's a combination of all these things that really means that the ground is very fertile for this psychedelic renaissance.
And this was when I was age 18 or something, taking ecstasy around that age with my friends.
And I remember we were lying there in someone's house after going out and everyone was high.
And we were, you know, in that sort of youthful, explorative, experimental type way of thinking.
We were all kind of intellectual and we read Jung and all this sort of stuff.
And I remember we were lying there and we were saying, oh, wow, this is so amazing.
Look, try and think of the scariest thing you can.
Try and think of the worst thing in the world.
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