Therapists Training Retreat Day 3

imageOur MDMA/PTSD therapist training seminar is fascinating. Today, we watched videotapes of a single MDMA session from a subject in Michael and Annie’s US MDMA/PTSD study. We were stopping the tape every few minutes for discussions, with Michael and Annie, Peter and Verena, Sergio and Tali (new co-therapist from Israel, also a psychiatrist), Ingrid and Andrew, Jose Carlos, Marcela (she was Jose Carlos’ co-therapist for his Spain study), Gema (from Spain), Torsten, June May Ruse, Fady (who just became a medical doctor in Jordan and wants to become a psychiatrist), Valerie, and me. Hearing of so many different ways to respond to a single subject’s comments made me despair (just momentarily) of ever being able to create an adequate treatment manual. Fortunately, we are occasionally identifying common themes. We’re a long ways from the dark days of 1985 and MDMA criminalization! Our MDMA/PTSD therapist training seminar is fascinating. Today, we watched videotapes of a single MDMA session from a subject in Michael and Annie’s US MDMA/PTSD study.