In almost all research on the efficacy of Ketamine and psychedelics like MDMA Ecstasy, Psilocybin Mushrooms and Ayahuasca plant medicine, almost no attention has been given to the Therapeutic Alliance psychotherapists must create with their clients in psychotherapy sessions, either in the test groups that get the medicine or the placebo groups that don’t.
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Neglect of the Therapeutic Alliance in Measuring the Efficacy of Ketamine and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapies
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How Anna and Jake Enriched Harville Hendrix’s Couples Dialogue with Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Anna and Jake had been together for over a decade and created a relationship built on mutual respect, shared dreams, and the kind of deep love that carries people through life’s challenges. But Jake often hid his deeper emotions from Anna which left her feeling deprived of him. Over the years they had drifted apart. […]
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How Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy helped Michelle Make Better Use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Michelle had struggled with the shadows of her past for as long as she could remember. The trauma of her early childhood sexual abuse had left her with deep emotional scars felt in the present as intense anxiety, recurring nightmares and mistrust of everyone around her. By the time she entered her twenties, she had […]
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How Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Helped Alan and Melissa to Have a Good Fight.
Alan and Melissa have lived together for 10 years and previously had several sessions of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy together. Here’s the scene they created one evening over dinner in which they debated whether or not they should continue living together.
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How No Bad Parts Family Systems Psychotherapy from Richard Schwartz can be enriched and deepened by Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
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How George and Martha Used Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy to Enrich Sue Johnson’s Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love.
George and Martha had been married for over 10 years, yet like many couples, they found themselves stuck in patterns of disconnection. Though they loved each other, they struggled to communicate and often found themselves locked in the same frustrating arguments, feeling distant and misunderstood. Despite their efforts in Emotionally Focused Therapy with me, their […]
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