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Last month I wrote about the power of feedback to learn and improve whatever you’re doing - writing, healing, sport, anything. That post was inspired by a therapeutic approach called Feedback Informed Treatment, in which therapists actively seek feedback and evidence to check they’re actually helping their clients and not causing harm.
I think that is really the ethical heart of science. And it is woefully lacking in psychotherapy, and even more in the wacky world of wellness and underground psychedelic ‘healing’. I know I have readers both in the overground and underground, and I really urge you all to seek feedback - that can be as simple as sending clients anonymous forms, just to check in and see where you can improve.
I was thrilled to get to interview Scott Miller, the founder of Feedback Informed Treatment, to learn how easy it is to seek feedback, and how much it can improve your therapeutic or healing practice. We also discussed why people are so drawn to psychedelic therapy at the moment . Check out our 40 minute conversation.
After the paywall, why did the FDA reject Lykos; what is ‘ketamine state yoga’; the obituary of cult expert Robert Jay Lifton; and…can RFK hang on long enough to do something for psychedelics, and is the wrecking of the US health system too high a price to pay?
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