Welcome to Back from the Abyss. I'm Dr. Craig Hecock.

I wanted to give listeners a heads up about an interesting study being conducted at 20 centers around the United States, including here in Fort Collins.

This is a trial using LSD to treat generalized anxiety disorder.

Now, LSD for anxiety, it seems pretty counterintuitive, I know, but there are some interesting prior studies with LSD

which suggest that it could in fact be helpful for clinically significant anxiety.

You can find more information about the study at Anxiety Research Study.com.

I had a listener inquire about the trauma and the transference episode with Alexandria. And she wanted to know

more details about how Alexandria and I healed the deep hurt in our relationship. Well, based on the

work of Scott Miller, I sometimes use his concept of session rating scales after difficult sessions.

And after Alexandria's second near-fatal suicide attempt,

I made sure to save the last few minutes of every appointment

for us to do a session rating.

I would ask her to rate this session

by giving it a letter grade and then justifying the grade.

And then I would ask her to give herself a letter grade and justify it,

and then give me a letter grade and explain it. And then I would ask her to give herself a letter grade and justify it, and then give me a letter grade and explain it.

And then I would ask what she and I could do differently or better if we could rewind the session and do it all over again.

And finally, I would ask her, what didn't she bring up that day that she probably should have?

I made it both a habit and expectation

that every session would end with an honest and often difficult, both self-assessment and also

an evaluation of me. I think this relentless assessment, this shared responsibility for making

each session better, it helped us to eventually clear the

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