Can efforts to bottle MDMA’s magic transform psychiatry?
MDMA’s therapeutic power may come from strengthening the bond between therapist and patient
For many at the meeting and in the reemerging field of what some call psychedelic medicine, there’s no reason to look further than MDMA. MDMA’s therapeutic power may come from strengthening the bond between therapist and patient by enhancing feelings of trust, emotional openness, and empathy, Heifets told the audience, pointing to the commentary he and his mentor, Robert Malenka, published in the journal Cell. Heifets was just seven years old in the summer of 1984 when the Drug Enforcement Administration proposed new rules to ban MDMA under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, citing “illicit trafficking,” high abuse potential and “no legitimate medical use.”
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