Ira Byock
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629 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
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And the careful, supervised, screened, and prepared use of these agents in I I'm very strict, usually, probably haven't done it this this afternoon, but uh to use the term psychedelic assisted therapies.
Uh-huh.
Uh these days, uh, to get to your question, psilocybin is is being used most consistently.
Um there are MDMA studies as well uh uh uh for PTSD, particularly severe anxiety, some other things.
Autism even is uh it's being explored in, but for the uh patients dealing with the things that we're interested in, uh depression, severe anxiety, demoralization.
syndrome, things associated with facing the fact that your life is is threatened.
Uh usually it's psilocybin.
Uh it previously in the 1970s was mostly LSD.
Yes.
Uh I think so when we're dealing with people who have a sense of their meaning the lost meaning and value, have a sense that life is worth living not worth living.
I think, you know, one of the first therapies is in fact our relationship with that person, uh letting that person know their life does still have value, right?
I don't wanna you know, that's that's really a very powerful thing.
This therapeutic relationship thing is not is not woo-woo.
It's real.
Secondly, I think some of the counseling and the meaning-making counselings, logotherapy, dignity therapy, outlook uh intervention, Karen Steinhauser's work, my own work about developmental stuff, is key and really often helps people.
get a get reframe what they're going through and in in a larger framework of their life and all of a sudden sometimes their life has has meaning.
But when people really are deep into that, demoralized, there is nothing, you know, uh things are over.
I'd be better off dead.
Before we decide that there's nothing left to offer them, they deserve to be offered a trial of psychedelic
Assisted therapies, because in some probably significant portion of people, they will achieve that reframing that makes whatever life they have left seem well worth living, precious, enhanced people's.
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