Rick Doblin
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205 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2018
last heard Aug 2019
Rick Doblin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then what MDMA does is it reduces the fear response to a perceived emotional threat.
And so people are able to...
fundamentally take this trauma that has so impinged on their consciousness that it colors everything and comes in their nightmares and feels like it's always about to happen again.
Everything they're seeing through this lens of the past.
And under MDMA, people are able to process the fears.
Their memory is enhanced for the trauma.
And I think that's a really important part of it is that we find that people have...
a greater recall to the fine details of what actually happened to them.
That before the emotions were so negative and fearful that they blocked out the memory itself.
So the memory comes even more than ever before.
And then by processing the fears and by noticing and being able to be so grounded in themselves in the moment that they could see that this is a supportive therapeutic environment and that that is not being replayed, the trauma is not actually happening right now.
There's been a lot of neuroscience studies that have looked at how memories are processed and it's called memory reconsolidation where
whenever you remember something, you actually bring it from different parts of your brain and then you kind of recreate the memory.
It's not like pulling a book off the shelf and then sticking it back.
You kind of pull the book off the shelf and then you rewrite the book and it gets stored again.
And so the episodic memory, the memory for what happened is enhanced and the emotional content of that memory is processed and replaced with a sense
that it's in the past with kind of a peaceful, I've learned certain lessons from it.
So that that memory reconsolidation then changes the memory tone.
And the next time somebody remembers it, they remember the incident, but they can bring back a sense that they're looking at it from a peaceful place and it's in the past.
We're not saying necessarily that our method is the best method.
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