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George Greer, MD. Greer introduced his talk,
Structuring Psychotherapy Sessions with MDMA in a Research Context, with a description if his work as a therapist psychiatrist providing MDMA sessions to clients in the early 80s. Here he responds to the question posed by Dr. Charles Grob, "What is it about MDMA that makes it so unique in therapy?"
Clinical case reports suggest that MDMA can reduce acute and chronic pain experienced by end-stage cancer patients, perhaps that portion of total pain and suffering resulting from emotional, psychological, cognitive, and social variables. In response to a question from the audience, Greer speaks about what MDMA's advantage is over conventional therapies or other alternative therapies. A way of conceptualizing its effectiveness as an adjunct to psychotherapy is this: MDMA reduces the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived emotional threat without inhibiting normal cognition. It promotes feelings of peacefulness and acceptance that enable people to move through denial and defense in order to respond clearly to difficult realities and to experience complex emotions.
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See also Subjective Reports of the Effects of MDMA in a Clinical Setting (1986)
George Greer, M.D. & Requa Tolbert, R.N., M.S.N. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs Vol. 18(4):319-327.
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