Summary: HuffPost explores the world’s first clinical trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat alcoholism, highlighting MAPS’ ongoing studies of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD and anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. MAPS Founder Rick Doblin, Ph.D., explains how MDMA-assisted psychotherapy works at the root level for treating trauma explaining, “We’re seeing that keeping things in control is often what’s keeping these disorders from getting healed. When someone is able to let go of their normal sense of controlling their emotions or not feeling things or pushing things down, an astonishing type of healing can take place.”
