4. Bad Hug

Cover Story

New York Magazine

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We go to the source - a Mexican psychotherapist named Salvador Roquet, who is known as a “master of bad trips.” It starts to dawn on “Susan” that the problem is not her one rogue mentor. What if boundary crossing is baked into the psychedelic guide training, and implicates Francoise Bourzat and her husband Aharon Grossbard? Credits Cover Story is a production of New York magazine. Power Trip is co-created, produced and reported by David Nickles and Lily Kay Ross. Hosted and produced by iO Tillett Wright. Senior producers are Marianne McCune and Whitney Jones. Also produced by Tarkor Zehn and Liza Yeager. Executive producer and editor is Hanna Rosin. Sound design and scoring by Mike Cruz, Brandon McFarland, and Sharif Youssef, who also engineered the show. Cover Story’s Theme music by Santigold. More Music by Lynx DeMuth and John Ellis. Fact-checking by Britina Cheng and Ted Hart. Crystal Finn is the voice of Susan. Special thanks to legal minds Elissa Cohen and Samantha Mason. Also to Gaby Grossman. Power Trip is also produced with Psymposia, a non-profit watchdog group. For a deeper dive into some of these issues visit psymposia.com/powertrip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a quick note, this series deals with sexual assault, so please keep that in mind when you decide when and where to listen.
0:07.0	As in previous episodes, we've changed the names and voices of some of the people that we've interviewed to protect their identities.
0:14.0	Also, at the very beginning of the episode, there are brief sounds of porn and violent war scenes.
0:21.0	Imagine you're laying on a floor.
0:26.0	Lights are flashing, and projectors are playing movies on all the walls.
0:30.0	The Mexican psychiatrist Salvador Roquet has given you LSD, maybe Mescon.
0:35.0	You're tripping your face off.
0:39.0	The projectors start playing porn and murder and war scenes from the dirty dozen.
0:45.0	You put a blindfold on, and then you get hit with earbusting loud music.
0:51.0	There's a classical piece from Debussy, with a Japanese synth cover of the exact same song by Tamita layered over the top.
1:00.0	Just slightly off enough to feel fucked up.
1:04.0	Then Balinese chanting starts, layered over the classical.
1:14.0	Then dad rock, quick silver messenger service, and pink fluid, and the grateful dead all at once.
1:25.0	And then Ravi Shankar comes in, like auditory whipped cream on your nightmare Sunday.
1:32.0	Then Roquet's assistants start walking around, banging on pots and pans for some god-awful reason, holding live microphones up to you while you freak the fuck out.
1:45.0	Hours later, you're still high as a guy, and one of the assistants comes up and says,
1:51.0	Cliff, we're going to give you a shot of ketamine.
1:56.0	Would that be okay?
2:01.0	This is cover story from New York Magazine, season one, Power Trip.
2:07.0	I'm IO till it right.
2:15.0	We're talking about the conductor of this chaos orchestra, one of the founding fathers of modern psychedelic therapy, and also one of François Borsat's teachers.
2:36.0	In the 70s, Salvador Roquet was called a master of bad trips.
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