Dr. Will Siu, Psychiatrist & Specialist in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: What Is MAPS, Why is MDMA Psychotherapy Beneficial, MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy & Healing, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy vs. Recreational Drug Use, Self-Treatment With Psychedelics, W

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm chatting with Dr. Will Siu, psychiatrist and specialist in psychedelic-assisted therapy. It's commonly believed that western medicine is "real" medicine and that psychedelics are dangerous and addictive. On today's episode, Dr. Will Siu challenges a lot of these common, yet misguided notions as he speaks about psychedelics as a tool for healing and growth. This episode is a real eye-opener! To find out more about Dr. Will Siu's practice, click HERE. To connect with Dr. Will Siu, click HERE. To connect with Siff, click HERE. To learn more about Arrae, click HERE. To learn more about Icing & Glitter, click HERE.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of the Dream Bigger podcast. If you're new here, welcome. And if you've
0:14.5	listened in before, welcome back. I'm your host SIF and I'm the founder of Array. I love to chat with
0:20.7	real thought leaders and trailblazers
0:22.6	on this show so I cannot tell you how stoked I am to bring you today's conversation with Dr. Will Sue.
0:28.8	Dr. Will is a psychiatrist who also specializes in psychedelic assisted therapy. You may know him from
0:35.0	the goop lab episode on psychedelics.
0:42.2	The therapeutic use of psychedelics has been a big topic of discussion in the wellness world,
0:48.0	so I wanted to bring you an expert who could talk about everything from MDMA therapy to ayahuasca.
0:52.6	So let's go ahead and dive into my conversation with Dr. Wilsu.
1:02.0	Okay, so first things first, tell me about your background.
1:07.0	How did you start studying or like getting into psychedelics to begin with?
1:15.2	Yeah, it's an interesting question. I'll try to be succinct, but there is kind of a whole story behind it. No, no, I want the story. I want the whole story. Great. So yeah, I'm 40 right now,
1:23.3	and I'm a psychiatrist. Yeah, so I had done an MD and a PhD, you know, during my educational training, which in a way I'm sharing right now because overall I ended, I finished school much later than most people.
1:39.4	I think I was like 31 when I finished school officially and then got my first real job, which is as a resident in
1:48.1	psychiatry at Harvard. And at that time, so I was 31 at that time. And, you know, I was a very
1:55.2	straight-edged doctor for the most part. You know, I was raised Jehovah's Witness. You know, I got the MD PhD,
2:03.0	which is normally for doctors that want to be scientists also. So at that time, I wanted to be,
2:08.9	you know, a professor at a university doing research in mental health and developing new
2:14.6	antidepressants. Like that was the story I had told myself in my head and had really
2:20.3	spent years preparing for. And, you know, first year of residency is called the internship, and it's a
2:26.0	very challenging time, you know, really, you know, it varies how challenging, but it's probably, you know,
2:30.9	the most difficult year for any doctor for the most part.
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