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The Power Dynamics of Psychedelic Therapy

Mad in America

Or, my childhood trauma of feeling like at any moment, if I didn’t do what I was supposed to do, I could be shamed or punished according to the rules of obedience training my parents learned from Dr. Rather than the therapist innately trusting the initial impulse of the client for the change in music, there is an element of mistrust.

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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

In her new book The Maps We Carry , she writes about the dawning realization that the “illness” story she had believed in and publicly advocated for, was wretchedly incomplete and often dangerous. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives.