Robin Carhart-Harris

I've written a paper called Psychedelics and the Essential Importance of Context.

So, you know, I'm very out there on this perspective that I do see it as fundamentally a combination treatment.

So, you know, maps like us, how they presented it was right.

It was transparent.

And it's, in my view, the reality of this treatment.

It's the secret source of this treatment is in that combination of

of a drug action that opens up the mind, makes it more plastic.

And then by simple logic, you have a plastic state.

You've got to do the right thing with that.

It's more shapeable, so shape it right.

That's where the context really, really matters.

And the context, we sometimes call it set and setting.

Set being the mindset that you bring in, in a sense, the psychology that you bring in.

Yes, expectations, but a lot more than that.

And the setting is the immediate environment for the experience.

So these are just two ways to split up, I suppose, factors that contribute to context and that context really mattering with psychedelics on board.

That's a strong assumption that we hold in this space.

It's actually an assumption that I'm testing right now in my lab, controlling context as a variable, as a factor.

What are you controlling with respect to context?

Are you talking about therapists versus no therapist or variables with respect to set and setting?