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Apr 2024
56m 14s

Psychoanalysis, Dissociation, MDMA and W...

Craig Heacock MD
About this episode
Here Dr. H sites down with Jenny, a psychoanalyst who shares her moving, then horrifying, then eventually cathartic tale of plumbing the depths of her traumatized psyche, first with years of psychoanalysis, then with five MDMA-assisted therapy sessions. This is a story of numbing and forgetting, then re-opening and remembering...of finding a way to make sens ... Show More
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