PT401 – Haley Maria Dourron – The Self-Entropic Broadening Theory: Understanding The Psychedelic State and Psychosis
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews Ph.D. student in the Drug Use and Behavior Lab at the University of Alabama Birmingham, Haley Maria Dourron.
She talks mostly about the paper she co-authored last year with Dr. Peter Hendricks and Camilla Strauss: "Self-Entropic Broadening Theory: Toward a New Understanding of Self and Behavior Change Informed by Psychedelics and Psychosis," which analyzes the long-standing comparisons between the psychedelic state and psychosis, and points out important distinctions between the two – that science should be looking more at the way one processes information and their level of self-focus rather than similarities in outward behavior. She discusses what she calls entropic processing, which is essentially how one's brain creates novel ideas, relations, and insights based on very loosened mental schemas: with new information being considered in new ways (with no filter), do the connecting pathways that seem like eureka moments actually make sense?
She discusses the broaden and build theory and the broadening of intentional scope; entropy; chronic LSD use and risk of psychosis; schizophrenia and psychedelics; why science needs to embrace naturalistic research, and more. As of this release date, there are still a few participatory spots left in her current study on the effect of psychedelic experiences on people who have a history of psychosis, so if you had an episode of psychosis at some point and have gone on to use psychedelics, she wants to hear your story. Head to the show notes for the link.
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| 1:08.7 | Hello, everybody, and welcome back to psychedelics today. Today on the show, I interview |
| 1:14.8 | Haley Duran. Haley is a PhD student at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, working on |
| 1:22.0 | neuroscience, doing some really, really interesting work. We get into her most recent paper, self-intropic broadening |
| 1:30.5 | theory, I think, is the title, the high-level title of the theory. And we get into that a little bit |
| 1:36.4 | here. Largely, we talk about schizophrenia, psychedelic, psychosis, similarities and differences, |
| 1:43.5 | and not as much neuroscience as we were hoping, |
| 1:46.7 | though I hope Haley will join us again and we can dig into more. |
| 1:50.5 | But really comprehensive and big paper was published. |
| 1:54.9 | We have it linked in the show notes. |
| 1:56.9 | And yeah, I really appreciate your time, Haley. |
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