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Therapeutic Potential of Entheogens

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So I was browsing through my old files and found my dissertation for obtaning the psychologist diploma in 2008. The subject was Therapeutic Potential of Entheogens. I had it half translated to english, and today I just finished translation because I thought maybe someone could make use of the information.


I think the very informed members will not find anything specially new, but maybe for other people it would, plus there's plenty of references which can help others that are writting academic papers on the subject.

I dont know if the translation is up to the standards of the original version, but it should be good enough.


Nowadays I would add other things I hadnt mentioned in the dissertation. Please feel free to discuss the dissertation or just in general the subject at hand.

In the work, I discussed more from the clinical perspective, not so much about the individual user in more "unnoficial" settings, but we all here know that there can be therapeutic effects even if you take it by yourself in a more uncontrolled setting

What do you feel are the therapeutic potentials of entheogens? Do you have any personal story to share?
 

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Brilliant work. Thanks for sharing.

Of all the possible causes for anxiety, death is, probably, the most difficult to deal with. As living beings, we are genetically programmed to avoid it at all costs. The idea of death brings us in contact with the unknown, beyond intellectual knowledge and our mundane certainties. It is impossible, therefore, to guarantee through verbal arguments the tranquility to anybody else in relation to this subject. Facing mortality without fear and anxiety can only be achieved through the inner development, maturity and a sense of satisfaction in the individual.
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Beautiful.
 
Im glad you guys are enjoying :) I was re-reading and found certain issues with the translation, some sentences read a bit funny, plus couple of grammar mistakes. I fixed some of the issues and reuploaded above.

Are there any other potential therapeutic uses for psychedelics that werent mentioned in the dissertation that you guys think are significant?
 
thanks for that end!
gonna read it tonight...looked into it and it looks like a nice refresher of things I already read and some new interesting stuff.
I wonder how they responded to your work at your university?
 
hey teo, at first it was very hard to convince some teacher to be my tutor because nobody had any clue about the subject, and you know how people react to the mention of (currently illegal) drugs. The teachers also feared I would be glorifying the substances unrealistically, and didnt want to have their names attached to it.

But I found one teacher who was a more open minded person, doing some work in a more spiritual-related area, and she asked me to make a first draft and show her before she decided. So I made one, with as many scientific quotes and extensive bibliography as possible and in a reasonable tone, and she thought it was good.

In the process of writting I contacted some psychedelic authors. Charles Grob very kindly send me a copy of the chapter he wrote for a book that was still unpublished at the time, also with some suggested bibliography, I was very happily surprised with that.

At the end I actually got a 10/10 from all the 3 people in the correcting board, so I was very happy, specially because it is a very traditional university and was the first work to touch such subject in any of the departments :)
 
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