The article reflects on the disconnect between psychiatric treatment and patient experience, as highlighted by Nazi survivor Dorothea Buck. Buck argued that labeling patients as 'ill' deprives them of the meaning behind their thoughts and feelings. The emergence of therapeutic psychedelics, as discussed in Michael Pollan's book, presents a new approach to mental health. The psychedelic experience, when guided properly, allows patients to explore their consciousness and emotions authentically, something often missing in conventional psychiatry. This highlights a crucial gap in how mental health treatment addresses individual patient experiences.
By being declared ill in a medicinal sense, the diagnosed are deprived of the human significance of our thoughts and feelings.
What could bring the value of all consciousness back to psychiatry? Therapeutic psychedelics have emerged as a compelling answer.
Patients and Pollan use substances like psilocybin with trained guides, exploring their mental imagery, where what they see and feel truly matters.
The therapeutic process for handling a trip offers what all psychiatric patients should experience, deserve to experience—and don’t.
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