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kayla greenstien

4 months

Happy new year. It's my year: the dragon 🐉. In the spirit of fresh starts and change, I'm moving off twitter and will focus on blog posts, Linkedin and TikTok for my internet dialogues. Here's a list of draft titles and two complete posts:

Why?

I’m a PhD student and my research focuses on ethics in psychedelic therapies. Below are draft titles and posts on the questions I ask about…

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

5 months

Psychedelic/MDMA therapy at Monarch clinic in Australia will cost $25,000 or $19,000 if no private insurance. This includes 12 psychotherapy sessions with 3 psychedelic dosing sessions (of 6-8 hours duration). Is anyone aware of other Australian clinics with pricing out?

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kayla greenstien

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1 year

Incredible words from Rosalind Watts former Imperial psilocybin trial clinical psych “psychedelics are supposed to help us come into connection w/ each other...what I observed in the psychedelic field was the absolute opposite of that." 1/

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"What I saw over the years was that it was attracting people that were highly narcissistic and they were becoming more narcissistic over time. And observing that, for a while I thought, maybe I’m just imagining that. I always thought I could fit around it, or it was me…" 2/

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1 year

"And I started to realise that we have these amazing powerful plants, these powerful approaches but that they were in the hands of the wrong ppl. That the ppl who put themselves forward to be at the front of that cue and say 'yeah I'll be the one to pioneer" 4/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

- and I'm including myself in this - are not the right people to hold it. So I myself am stepping down saying: I've been part of something that was really disgusting, that was horrible to be part of, that was horrible to witness. It is grotesque." 5/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

"...then I realised that there was something deeply toxic about many of the ppl I was working with. And it was a shock to me...this bizarre competitive ego gains I was seeing everywhere..." 3/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

"And I'm standing down and saying, I don't want to be part of that party anymore. I've got like two books worth of stories the things that I've seen that are so disturbing that happened to me, that happened to other people, so deeply wrong." 6/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Viewable on but behind a paywall. Incredible honesty, vulnerability, and bravery to make such a clear point about the reality of what she experienced. Thank you Dr Watts.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

Friendly reminder that @MAPS still *publishes* and sells Grof’s 2001 book LSD Psychotherapy which pathologises homosexuality as an illness resulting from trauma in the birth canal (CW: next tweet is a screenshot of the book and it's....disturbing) 🧵 1/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

3 months

Why are Nutt, Carhart-Harris, MAPS, Michael Pollan, Mind Medicine Australia and Emyria posting on twitter and linked-in as if nothing out of the ordinary happened yesterday?

Why does it (still) feel like a lot of people don’t really care about addressing the problem of…

This post discusses medical misconduct, sexual abuse and suicide. I first discuss the media responses of Sessa’s most high-status friends…

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

There’s so much more from Dr Watts that people should hear directly from her. I put the link to this section here

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

Tbh, being on TV and talking about abuses in my field of research as a fresh PhD student is slightly terrifying. But I did it anyways because I deeply believe we can and must make psychedelic research safer by actively addressing patterns of abuse. Check it out this Monday:

Four Corners

@4corners

2 years

Next week on #4Corners : the race to make psychedelic drugs part of mainstream medicine.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

6 months

@Shrink_at_Large @GeorgeJulian In a 3rd yr psych class this year I listened to a prof tell students that BPD ppl aren’t really suicidal they just sometimes “go too far”. The harm and stigma is baked into the entire system.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Australia rescheduling #MDMA & #psilocybin for authorised psychiatrists is the global equivalent of Alberta being the first Canadian province to medically regulate them.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

3 months

I suspect there will be a whole lot of silence and distancing re: Sessa. Rather than look at it as a *systemic* problem at the core of the psychedelic renaissance, it will *again* be labeled as the problem of a 'lone wolf'. It's not. A lot of people ignored a lot of red flags.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

I don't have the words to articulate why it is so desperately important for @MAPS to address this and remove this insidious hate from texts that form the foundation of their therapeutic manual. 7/ Please. @RickDoblin

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 months

In response to unsubstantiated claims, my MDMA couples therapy article was removed for a month. It is back up now, in its original form. The article was not found to contain any factual errors 1/

Let Go and Surrender: Considerations on MDMA Couples Therapy and Coercive Control - Bill of Health

Historic and contemporary discussions on psychedelic and MDMA research largely ignore theories on power, control, and abusive interpersonal relationships.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Interesting to see this in the initial recruitment info for Compass study - imo it's a positive step for informed consent compared to other recruitment info i've seen.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

I’m baffled (but not shocked) by some reactions (and lack there of) to reporting on abuses in psychedelic assisted therapy. 1/n 🧵

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

11 months

Completely unsurprising: Francoise Bourzat is back on the MMA training faculty. I left MMA training in '21 in part bc of their failure to address allegations of abuse and serious ethical transgressions. Bourzat herself is open about her completely unboundaried practice.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Nothing like a case report from the good ol' days of LSD research. MacCallum, 1968: "Male, aged 39. Single. Has succeeded for years being a parasite on his mother and brother, living the life of a gentleman whilst they slave...

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

5 months

Imagine just letting people choose whether they want therapeutic support (and what kind) with psychedelics/MDMA.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

3 months

A 12-month suspension is nothing but a clear demonstration of a failed medical regulatory system. Appaling.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

3 months

On reading summary of Sessa's case, I am most struck by how utterly appalling it is for him to call his abuse "a blip", while trying to maintain his registration. This says so much. Reading this nauseating - please strongly consider whether you do.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

The role of the therapist in psychedelic/MDMA therapy according to Dr Gita Vaid, @MAPS trained psychedelic psychotherapist and head of @MindMedicineAU 's International course director....

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

My paper on touch in PAT for a clinical ethics class was accepted as talk for @ipnpsychedelx and got a big 94%. Huge thanks to @NeseLSD @EmTumilty @MeaghanBuisson Sarah McNamee @D__Nickles @LilyKayRoss for the work that guided it all:

A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy - Bill of Health

A spate of recent exposés have detailed the proliferation of abuse in psychedelic therapy, underscoring the urgent need for ethical guidance.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

18 days

Wild how @MindMedicineAU can't mute ppls mics in a large webinar, but as soon as they saw me in the meeting, booted me out 2x, for nothing 💀. I didn't even comment on the absurdity of Peter aggressively telling people to ignore any critical researchers.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

4 months

When did @MindMedicineAU first learn Sessa was being investigated? Why was he giving talks on consent and appropriate conduct when (I assume) he already knew he was being investigated for having a relationship w/ px? I think MMA has a responsibility to comment on the news

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 month

I'm gathering instances of ppl saying that "psychedelic/mdma therapy is like __ years of therapy" - not sure why yet - trying to find the first? if you have any to contribute, pls add here:

"it's is like _ years of therapy"

Date Quote Link/Source Added by Feb 2024 Purohit: "[W]hen close friends come to you and say that what they got out of 2 or 3 sessions of assisted MDMA couples counseling, they feel like it was 50...

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

9 months

While touch and "focused bodywork" for "energy blocks" are core parts of MAPS therapeutic manual and the images associated with MDMA therapy, you will find no mention of this in the latest trial results (or nearly all other publications on MDMA therapy) - this is a problem.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Mind Medicine Australia charges a $250 application fee - way more than any other school I've ever applied for. They also asked me to pay the full $8,000 course fee before even being interviewed for 'consideration' into the course. Trust yourself when something feels wrong.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

@MAPS are big fans of Stan Grof. They publish and sell his books and frequently cite his work. MAPS also promotes "Queer-affirming MDMA-assisted therapy". I recently came across some tensions in these two positions 🧵1/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Reminder that Bourzat is the only person to be decertified as a Hakomi method practitioner for ethical violations yet still promotes her Hakomi training in bios. Lord, grant me the confidence of a psychedelic saviour….

Caroline Vigneron

@CaroVigneron

1 year

Non, Françoise Bourzat n'est pas " #psychologue ". #psychedelic #psych édélique #psychologie #psychology Elle est invitée au Sommet des transes et des médecines psychédéliques (France, 12-19 mars 2023).

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

They thanked me for bringing it to their attention. However, I am by no means the first one to bring this to their attention - in 2021 the Mithoefers acknowledged in an interview that the queerphobia in Grofs work has caused people distress. 5/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

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I can quite confidently say that this will not be your "last chance" to sign up for a psychedelics today course, and seats are not limited- these guys are shameless with the high-pressure sales tactics. "turn your passion into a career"?! Please, no.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

@NeseLSD Thank you for mentioning this on latest @psymposia pod -- finally the article about alcohol I have been looking for! "Imagine if the media covered alcohol like other drugs" via @voxdotcom

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

8 months

. @MindMedicineAU 's Tania de Jong taking a page straight out of JP's handbook on fear mongering about the "attack" on free speech. Reminder: MMA have threatened multiple ppl with lawsuits for speaking out against them. The irony here knows no bounds 😅

Don’t sit in silence. It’s your voice. Use it! | The Spectator Australia

We all have a voice, but perhaps the greatest challenge to humanity right now is that our voices are being silenced. Too often we silence, censor, attack, shame, and humiliate those we do not agree…

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

There are numerous queer-phobic passages throughout Grof's work, including his core theory that psychopathologies result from birth trauma. I already wrote about it here 6/

Homophobia, holotropic breathwork and the MAPS model of MDMA therapy

There is still a notion amongst psychedelic supporters that prohibition is based on concern for safety (it’s not) and shining light on…

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

On sale now in the @MAPS bookstore! 🙃 2/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Looking forward to our deep dive on cults, narcissistic leadership, whistleblowers, and the intersections with psychedelics. June 8th - 7pm (AEST) - online and free:

Psychedelics, cults, narcissistic leadership and whistleblower phenomenon | Humanitix

Get tickets on Humanitix - Psychedelics, cults, narcissistic leadership and whistleblower phenomenon hosted by Signs of Life Psychology. Find event information.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

11 months

This therapist sexually assaulted a patient outside of the trial also - this is a massive part of this case and this is an extremely misleading characterisation. It is not disputed and there was no way for this to be "consensual" despite whatever he claimed. @NewYorker Please fix

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@BellevueDoc

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Who's going to tell the New Yorker (usually meticulous in their fact checking) that MDMA was never called the name "Therapy" but rather "Adam" and also "Empathy" briefly, before being called "Ecstasy" (and now "Molly") ?

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kayla greenstien

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11 months

Ben Sessa, UK import guiding Aus psychedelic therapy, calls psychedelics any substance that “can allow for access to repressed memories” - wildly dangerous assumption imo. Look forward to reading new paper highlighting this area needing more discussion.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

Tuning into @psychedemia live on a Saturday night = introvert PhD student dream. Big thanks to @NeseLSD et al. for this momentous event. Off to a brilliant start.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 month

Happy to share this article I co-authored: "A taxonomy of regulatory and policy matters relevant to psychedelic-assisted therapy in Australia" - ft. an absolutely enormous table of factors for regulators to consider 1/

A taxonomy of regulatory and policy matters relevant to psychedelic-assisted therapy in Australia -...

Objectives: The Australian government recently rescheduled psilocybin and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine for limited clinical uses. This change has raised va...

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

I promise to never give you MDMA 🥰

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@Kgreenstien

1 year

Should MAPS and Mind Medicine Australia therapists be required to disclose to potential patients that therapists are taught that birth trauma is core of all psychopathology? How much info on theoretical orientation is required for "informed consent"?

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

On Sept 26 2022 I was told by a senior MAPS person that they are sure that "Stan does not hold any of those beliefs that queerness is pathological"... 3/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Why does the Australian TGA spell psilocybin as psilocybine?

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

This is an incredible resource and great contribution to psychedelic open science - meticulously researched and presented, absolute worth spending some time to browse through. Very inspiring - the open database of my dreams ✨

Philipp Rühr 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

@ChewingGinger

1 year

📢 Introducing PsyChild – a grassroots database for clinical research with psychedelics and related compounds in minors.🖇️PsyChild offers structured info on hundreds of records including dusty archival material and current clinical study reports. 🗃️ 🔍

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 months

I've already tried to respectfully inform @ProfDavidNutt and Drug Science editor @Dr_Anne_Schlag that the rate of first responder suicide in Australia is nowhere close to one a day. Extremely disappointing to see Nutt repeating this misinformation, again.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

6 months

Of course it was Tania De Jong who found Palestinian solidarity so offensive at the Sydney Theatre Company. I stand w/ the other Jewish people who say: "“Using this history – our history – to scream antisemitism upon seeing a keffiyeh is sickening. Not. In. My. Name.”

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Alan Watts, 1968: cannabis > LSD

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

and on Oct 21 2022 they were "working on getting in touch with the folks at @MAPS that oversee the book store as well as our media team about developing and sharing a statement regarding the books' contents" 4/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

@tylerblack32 I’m currently marking undergrad psychology papers where students have to identify the ‘correct’ DSM diagnosis and recommend the ‘best’ tx based on a one page case summary of a fictional px🙃

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

TGA live: mdma is as addictive as cocaine but there’s no evidence to suggest patients from clinical trials will seek out illicit mdma

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

The only way to change the structures of communities or institution that enabled abuse is to champion those who speak out. Biggest thank you to those involved in speaking out through @nymag and @psymposia - there’s a lot of work to do.

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@Kgreenstien

1 year

I’ve also noticed a disconnect between how clinicians say touch is used in PAT (only in moments of high distress for grounding) and the images/video that has emerged from sessions where patients are seemingly managing fine and the therapist reaching out and initiating touch.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

8 months

Absolute must read - this is why Australia’s rescheduling is not the ‘paradigm shift’ a certain investment banker would like you to believe it is

Brian Pace (@brianpace.bsky.social)

@brian_pace

8 months

I’m happy to share new work on how hype works to mythologize, market, and institutionalize psychedelic-assisted therapy (P-AT) to fit a neoliberal medical paradigm that prioritizes profit above all else. In collaboration with @JDaviesPhD and @NeseLSD . 1/

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@Kgreenstien

1 year

@DennisMcKenna4 @guardian It's a good step but important to be clear that it is far from how people may interpret the idea of 'legalised for medical use' - here's a good thread on how this may actually look in Australia :)

Rhys Cohen

@rhyscohen

1 year

How accessible will MDMA and psilocybin be, following the Australian government's decision to make them available as Schedule 8 controlled drugs? Probably not very accessible at all, for a bunch of reasons:

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

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@NellAitch blaming the px/PD for the clinician's boundary violations is a classic. the only thing it's an indication of is the clinician's need for serious supervisory support. what a profound lack of insight.

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@Kgreenstien

3 months

How many headlines have there been about Australia being the first country to medicalise psilocybin/MDMA and then @MAPS sends this today? What am I not getting?

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

@Serotonin2arec No, it’s actually exactly the opposite. It’s trying to stop manipulation and exploitation of people. It’s also not “rooting against” — it’s pointing out egregiously unethical parts of their practice so people are harmed further by them.

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@Kgreenstien

1 year

I do not support the statement that 'MDMA is as addictive as cocaine'. I tweeted a summary of comment from TGA rep in live webinar. I don't even think it's very useful to make sweeping comparisons of 'addiction potential' given role of unique socio/econ/bio factors in addiction.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 months

Send your public comments on the ICER review of MDMA-AT to publiccomments @icer .org until April 22. I’ll be writing in support of the reviews findings with some additional points from my own research. Looking forward to seeing more of the public comments posted.

Dr. Rick Barnett, PsyD 😊

@drrickbarnett

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@Kgreenstien @MAPS Found it: publiccomments @icer .org Here is an example.

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1 year

Has anyone studied participant/patient preference for one vs two therapists for psychedelic/MDMA-assisted therapy?

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@Kgreenstien

1 year

What constitutes 'highly developed'? Imo, this would include meaningful co-design, extensive feedback and testing. None of this happened for the MAPS manual - it is entirely based on a small homogenous group of clinician perspectives with zero patient input.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

6 months

Tahlia Harrison's paper on identifying gaps in informed consent in psychedelics/MDMA clinical trials based:

Altered stakes: Identifying gaps in the informed consent process for psychedelic-assisted therapy...

Abstract Background and aims Psychedelic-assisted therapy (P-AT) has been shown to reduce post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety symptoms, and is likely to be approved in the...

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@Kgreenstien

1 year

This quote is a great example of the core of Mind Med Australia's advocacy and views: MDMA and psychedelics will solve the problem of poor people being too lazy to provide for themselves while they lead meaningless lives. 3/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

#tbt Before there was Power Trip, there was @NYMag 's 1985 piece on the drug Rick Doblin wants us to call "Adam" Spoiler alert: featured MDMA guide Dr Ingrasci resigned his medical licence a few years later after sexually abusing multiple ppl in sessions

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

18 days

Tania is now encouraging Michael Winlo to share the story of a woman currently in a clinical trial, it's clear Michael knows this story should not be shared and he provided a very diplomatic question dodge...why was Tania even aware of this person's story?

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Overall my impression is that the TGA had a surface level understanding of the research. They say they are “not the regulators of clinical practice” and yet they are essentially mandating psychotherapy, without any understanding of that psychotherapy

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

No. 100% no - I don’t even have the words for this it’s so completely appalling. It’s animal abuse.

Floris

@FWolswijk

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"I have given MDMA to my dogs" Rick Doblin in the final minutes of the great @breakingcon (sorry had to share)

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

17 days

Too soon to be ironic? Off the Usyd #GazaSolidarityEncampment - come ask me about Zionism and psychedelics :)

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

3 months

** "a tragic blip in my otherwise excellent career."

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

8 months

I’m so thankful I was able to attend this opening yesterday - it was so powerful and liberating to be in a space where the concept of ‘destigmatising’ is real emancipatory action, not meaningless platitude. Highly recommend viewing the film up on YouTube now

Indigo Daya

@IndigoDaya

8 months

Well, here it is! The short film about my #SliceSilence project is now live on YouTube, following tonight’s premiere in Sydney. It was filmed last year, before I knew I’d be extending this exhibition into a PhD… so this story is ‘To Be Continued!’

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

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This time they removed Hakomi from her bio. Bourzat was briefly certified as a Hakomi Therapist, and her certification was permanently revoked in 1997 based on multiple ethical violations. She continued to mention Hakomi certification in her bio for years

Hakomi and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy | Hakomi Institute

Hakomi Institute International (HII) wants to communicate our emerging position on Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP) following reports of abuse in settings that combine psychotherapy and...

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@Kgreenstien

3 months

Happy to share my article for the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center's Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype online symposium. "Let Go and Surrender: Considerations on MDMA Couples Therapy and Coercive Control" (CW: domestic violence, sexual abuse)

Let Go and Surrender: Considerations on MDMA Couples Therapy and Coercive Control - Bill of Health

Historic and contemporary discussions on psychedelic and MDMA research largely ignore theories on power, control, and abusive interpersonal relationships.

blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu

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@Kgreenstien

1 year

Link to buy access to webinar I quoted. It is one of the best I've seen and much better to hear direct from the speakers than to read me quoting them. Shadow of Mainstreaming Psychedelics with Benjamin Ramm, Dr Rosalind Watts & Anya Oleksiuk · Dandelion

Shadow of Mainstreaming Psychedelics with Benjamin Ramm, Dr Rosalind Watts & Anya Oleksiuk

Wed 26th Apr 2023, 7pm – 9pm BST (UTC +01:00)

dandelion.events

kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Incredible words from Rosalind Watts former Imperial psilocybin trial clinical psych “psychedelics are supposed to help us come into connection w/ each other...what I observed in the psychedelic field was the absolute opposite of that." 1/

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Co-hosting a webinar Sept 26 6pm on risks and limitations of the evidence for psychedelic therapies for the Aus Psych Society's PAT interest group with presenters @GillBedi and Suresh Muthukumaraswamy Free for PAT-IG members but paid access open to all

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@Kgreenstien

1 year

we're not in the wild west of anything. we're in a completely modern medical system intentionally designed by people with power to benefit people with power. that's it.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

11 months

FDA: psychotherapy in psychedelic trials hasn’t been characterised. This means what many have said: we have no idea what is going on in therapy in these clinical trials which is a major issue for interpreting the results. It is a free for all and is exactly how/when abuse happens

Psychedelic Brain Science

@PsychedBrainSci

11 months

Breaking!!! FDA shares initial guidelines for psychedelic drug approval! We’ll be breaking this down shortly!

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

1965 JAMA article on patterns of hallucinogenic drug 'abuse'. Not sure if the last sentence is a sick burn, a gracious compliment or a personal attack.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

I was looking for logo/design inspiration for the APS psychedelic-assisted therapy interest group and stumbled across Australian graphic designer @LeifPodhajsky . Just got his book 'New Psychedelia and it is beyond incredible - can't wait to gaze into it more.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

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Sorry all, the final concluding remark from Tania was actually "namaste".

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

I found that @HamiltonMorris 4-hour podcast talk with David E Nichols is significantly (p < .05) more interesting than any other 4-hour podcast of two white men talking. Join the patreon for a good time.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Imo this also applies to people who haven't already had direct experience w/ psychedelics. In Australia, wealth will now determine access to in-country clinical and overseas legal use. Meanwhile, the hoi polloi are subjected to draconian drug law, lacking any grounding in science

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

10 months

Vital reading. Thank you for sharing Joe: "I have come to believe that, in my opinion, the reputation of Johns Hopkins was leveraged alongside the highly suggestible influence of psychedelic substances, with some funders and researchers demonstrating unhealthy boundaries..."1/2

Joe Welker

@revjoewelker

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

It has been suggested to me that I should be cautious about what I say publicly and I agree. There are limits and a lot of important considerations. But I also deeply believe in respectful debate, sharing and shining a light on the things that are hard and complex.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Tania - Mind Medicine Australia: "we can provide housing, and programs and activities and food to ppl who are disadvantaged, but at the end of the day, if they can't get over their trauma and get to the root cause of their trauma, they're still going to remain stuck ..." 1/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Please note that Howard Whitaker was part of a LSD-cult and did later use LSD himself. He later left the cult and did absolutely nothing about the many children and adults still being abused in it. Not a cool guy.

Brian Barnett

@BrianBarnettMD

1 year

Promising outcomes published in 1964 from LSD assisted therapy conducted by an Australian psychiatrist who refused to try LSD himself.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Seems like the convention centre cafe got its branding from a psychedelics conference #hr23

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

*correction: to be fair, Grof writes that homosexuality is a 'psychopathological syndrome' (not illness) associated with birth trauma

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

2 years

I’ve also heard over and over the same negligent, silencing responses from the institutions implicated. None of this is unique to psychedelics. We’ve seen this all before, and yet this pattern repeats. 3/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

In another weird turn of events, a guy I went to high school with in Canada is now supplying Mind Med Australia with psilocybin and MDMA

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

Mind Medicine Australia's Tania de Jong is a member of Australia's right-wing anti-vax conspiracy-loving party, headed by Clive Palmer who is suing Aus gov for $300bil over mining rights. Does anyone have access to this article?

Tania de Jong delves into mushrooms, musicals and fans in the form of the UAP

Soprano, songwriter, psychedelics advocate and, apparently, fans in the form of the United Australian Party.

www.crikey.com.au

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

1 year

This is a good example of where the New Age underpinnings of MAPS shine through. What concerns me is that this is masked by their mainstream science PR campaigns. I know I personally felt mislead when I started to actually dig into their theoretical orientations.

Jules Evans

@JulesEvans11

1 year

MAPS list of possible difficult psychedelic experiences. This is the leading psychedelic organisation in the world and it doesn’t mention panic, paranoia, fear of dying, derealization, dissociation etc. no it’s ‘UFO encounters and travelling in the spirit realm’

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

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@IndigoDaya @abcnews Wow this makes me physically nauseous. My mom was deeply harmed by "modern" ECT a few years ago. It's a barbaric intervention with rubbish science behind it. To platform someone as a cheerleader for ECT 6 months after "the darkest place she's ever been" is deeply irresponsible.

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

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Why does the Australian TGA call psilocybin "psilocybine"? The TGA says it is following ‘international nomenclature’ the International Nonproprietary Name (INN), British Approved Name (BAN) and 1971 UN Convention on Drugs. And yet no one else spells it with an 'e'... 1/

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

11 months

I am a student rep on the Australian Psychological Society's Psychedelic-assisted therapy special interest group. These webinars are an excellent way to have in-depth conversations directly relevant to psychologists. Looking forward to this one:

Dr Stephen Bright

@stephenjbright

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On July 17th, A/Prof Skeffington & myself are providing an information session on #MDMA -assisted psychotherapy for the @AustPsych #Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy Special Interest Group. For more information, check out

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kayla greenstien

@Kgreenstien

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just asked #chatgpt to write a research proposal for RCT looking at the use of cannabis for complex ptsd... looks pretty good - first #ChatGPT trial? yeeek.

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