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"What happens during the LSD trip may be relatively insignificant from the therapeutic perspective (not always)" I doubt that's the case, since we know a lot o
by pmoriarty 5y ago
"What happens during the LSD trip may be relatively insignificant from the therapeutic perspective (not always)"
I doubt that's the case, since we know a lot of subconscious material tends to surface during a trip.. and such material can be very fruitful material for all sorts of therapeutic approaches (except maybe behaviorism and its offspring).
- nabla9 5y agoThe therapeutic effect from the trip seems to happen in first few times or after taking "heroic dose". If you have taken 5 trips over a 1-2 years, I don't think you get much material. Psychedelics seem to have hard limits of what they can reveal. I have found that the good after effect comes even from low doses. Microdosing or just relatively low dosing that don't bring anything into surface.
- pmoriarty 5y ago"If you have taken 5 trips over a 1-2 years, I don't think you get much material. Psychedelics seem to have hard limits of what they can reveal." I've never seen any studies to suggest this is the case. Just anecdotes of people saying they stopped taking them after a while because they weren't learning anything new. But usually such anecdotes have no information on just how they were taking them -- with intention? In a therapeutic context? What did you actually deal with in your life and what didn't you deal with? I suspect that those that stop getting results aren't integrating what they learn during the trip in to their lives, so they're stuck on repeat. "I have found that the good after effect comes even from low doses." The research on microdosing is just getting started. It's quite possible that reported effects from microdosing are due entirely to the placebo effect.