Psychologist, psychotherapist and clinician-researcher with research focus on psychedelic therapy
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Max Wolff
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Critical commentary on a recent paper reporting emergence of dissociated traumatic memories during psilocybin treatment now out in the Journal of Eating Disorders, with @trpwolff.bsky.social, @manojdoss.bsky.social, Lilian Kloft-Heller, and @henryotgaar.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1186/s403...
As a way of being a bit more active on here, I'll try to post some papers I have read each week + plus some opinions.
So let's start with February 9th-15th:
I'm talking with a patient from the Otsuka/Transcend methylone phase-II trial. They said there it essentially included therapy. The drug was presented as something that would help them process emotions/memories, like MDMA does. They planned to address certain emotions/memories before each session.
Berlin: 28.1. Trip auf Rezept? Zur Zukunft Psychedelika-assistierter Therapie.
Öffentliche Veranstaltung unseres Forschungsprojekts PSYCHEDELSI zu allerlei, auch nicht-medizinischen Themen.
psychedelsi.org
18 Uhr, Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité.
Come along!
Are Psychedelic Experiences Just Brain Activity?
Bill reflects on a debate between Guy Goodwin and Max Wolff @trpwolff.bsky.social where it was suggested what people say about their experiences may be a kind of smokescreen and that the real explanation lies only in what is happening in the brain.
I probably spent 10,000 words in my upcoming book trying to say what these few paragraphs sum up way more succinctly.
Happiness in a pill, sold to you at a reasonable profit-making price. That's the goal here.
Stay home. Shut up. Be content. Fight our wars. Pay your bills. Take your happy pill.
Strong alliance, weak conclusions: Comment on Goodwin et al. (2026) “The role of therapeutic alliance in psilocybin treatment for treatment-resistant depression”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Many thanks to my coauthors Rick Zeifman, @kangaslampi.bsky.social & @moeswisdom.bsky.social
Max Wolff
Wow! Science! This is incredible. Not so much the findings which i only understand bits and pieces of, but the sheer scale of this project. This is why I got into science, the chance of someday contributing to our common goal of understanding the world we live in.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
