Strauss: Psychedelics force confrontation with avoided memories and emotions
Tyler Strauss · Your Brain Has Only 3% of Its Vision in Focus Right Now · Mar 8, 2022 · at 10:50
Tyler Strauss, VP of Product Development at EI Ventures, discusses the psychological mechanisms of psychedelic therapy on the We Live To Build podcast.
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“One of the features of a psychedelic experience is their ability to provoke Strong feelings or memories that we would otherwise seek to avoid and to really place us front and center in front of those feelings or those memories. To the extent that they sort of force us to confront them, they don't necessarily prevent us from looking away, but they really make it very difficult to deny the fact about them.”
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