Ketamine: The Story of Modern Psychiatry's Most Fascinating Molecule is meticulously researched, engagingly written, and comprehensive in scope. bit.ly/4kI6QHj
20.06.2025 21:21 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
It's disappointing โ but not surprising โ that journalists with close ties to MAPS have resorted to such a transparently partisan political attack. This piece is an opportunistic attempt to politicize whistleblowers with a narrative that appeals to the Trump administration. While Jacobs and Nuwer attack Psymposia and me personally, they have failed to refute our core claims, which remain important and unrebutted. To be clear, their attacks are flatly incorrect and underscore their desperation to distract from the real story: that MAPSโs handling of its clinical trials was a disaster, and that Lykos is in financial disarray.
To obscure this fact, the article offered a caricature of my research and of Psymposia's broader work in the field. I describe my actual motivations in a recent AJOB commentary: Lykos has never acknowledged how the on-camera physical and sexual abuse from its Phase 2 clinical trial was enabled by the therapy's reliance on Grofian โfocused bodywork.โ The Phase 2 participant had tried to alert the FDA to this connection for years, and it was only after those initial attempts were unsuccessful that we felt obligated to communicate this to the advisory committee, before this dangerous practice could be scaled.
If MAPS had listened to this participantโs concerns when the abuse took place, they could have made their therapy safer years ago. I am not opposed to the psychedelic industry, but to the normalization of pseudoscientific practices when vulnerable groups are at stake.
My personal response to the propagandistic & defamatory New York Times article on Psymposia @psymposia.bsky.social, which violated the Times' editorial standards. This transparently partisan attack politicized whistleblowers to appeal to the Trump administration on behalf of a pharmaceutical company
06.02.2025 18:34 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Iโm intrigued ๐ง it makes sense!
16.06.2025 23:08 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Keep your eyes peeled for โResting-state spectral power markers of insular dysregulation in suicide attempt historyโ ๐ @sfn.org #SfN2025
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