9. The Complainers Group

Cover Story

New York Magazine

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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So. Should YOU do psychedelic therapy? In the last episode of Power Trip, we get a lot of different answers to this question. Plus, we catch up with some of the people we met throughout this season who fight like hell to get people and institutions to acknowledge what happened to them. And make it less likely to happen to YOU. In an earlier version of episode 9, we stated that as part of an agreement Meaghan Buisson signed with MAPS she waived the right “to ever sue MAPS again,” mistakenly implying she sued MAPS in the past. She has not. We’ve updated the episode to say she waived the right to ever sue MAPS. 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. Our senior producers are Marianne McCune and Whitney Jones. Also produced by Tarkor Zehn, Liza Yeager, Noor Bouzidi, and iO Tillett Wright. Our executive producer and editor is Hanna Rosin. Additional editing help by Nichole Hill. Sound design and scoring by Brandon McFarland. Additional sound design by Sharif Youssef, who also mixed the show. Cover Story’s Theme music is by Santigold. Additional music by Lynx DeMuth and John Ellis. Fact-checking by Britina Cheng and Ted Hart. Crystal Finn is the voice of Susan, and Maaike Laanstra-Corn is the voice of Ashley. Special thanks to legal minds Elissa Cohen, Jillian Robbins, and Samantha Mason. Also to Gaby Grossman, and to Sara Ahmed for her writings on complaints. 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.
0:08.0	Also, to protect their identities, we've changed the names and voices of some of the people that we've interviewed.
0:15.0	We're also doing something unusual.
0:18.0	We're releasing a short video about Megan Busan, the speed skater from episode 6 and 7 that includes actual footage from her clinical trial.
0:28.0	Please take care, it's not easy to watch.
0:31.0	You can find it on New York Magazine's website.
0:35.0	Last year I got an email from somebody I had known years ago.
0:40.0	Somebody I really look up to and respect.
0:45.0	And they were asking me about doing psychedelic therapy.
0:51.0	Like, what do you think?
0:54.0	You know, they had no idea I was working on this project.
0:58.0	And they were like, Lily, you always told me that if I was interested in psychedelics, I should contact you.
1:06.0	And I'm really interested in working with this person and I'll give you their name.
1:11.0	And like, it turned out it was someone that had trained with Francois on her own.
1:16.0	Yeah, Francois Borsat, the singing French shamaness.
1:25.0	And I was like, oh, don't do that.
1:30.0	Don't do that.
1:33.0	I was just this feeling like an infection has spread everywhere and could touch anybody that I care about.
1:45.0	Now at this moment where the floodgates have opened, people will ask, what do you think is psychedelics?
1:54.0	Or do you think this might be something that I could check out?
1:58.0	And it's a question that a lot of our sources get.
2:03.0	We're curious, what do you say to friends or other people who might be considering psychedelic therapy?
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