SC 13 - MDMA in Relationships? - Dr Will Vanderveer

The Jayson Gaddis Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Can MDMA help our relationships if we do this in a legit way? I explore this question with Dr Vanderveer and we zero in on some key factors if you want to improve your marriage or relationship life using medicine such as MDMA.

SHOWNOTES

Jayson shares his own experiences with MDMA – [1:50]
The Low-Down on MDMA trials [4:55]
Who is MDMA for? [6:20]
What a MDMA-assisted psychotherapy session looks like [8:28]
“There’s something really warm and cozy about that” [10:50]
Why use MDMA? -Tapping into shared humanity. [13:22]
Why does traditional therapy often fall short? [14:45]
The importance of integration and structured therapy with MDMA [18:55]
Jayson’s MDMA use in college [20:40]
Learning to use MDMA safely [24:00]
The “Quality”Problems that MDMA-assisted-therapy brings [35:55]
Jayson’s experience of a facilitated MDMA session [38:05]
Integrating these experiences into your relationships [40:30]
“The context is everything” [44:15]
State-Changes vs Trait-Changes [45:30]
The future of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy [53:10]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, what's up friends. Welcome back to the Smart Couple Podcast. Today we have my good friend and brother on the path, Dr Will Vanderveer and Will is back for a second episode here.
0:17.0	I imagine Dr. Will will be with us from time to time. He'll bounce in and out because I enjoy and appreciate the perspective of a Western
0:26.1	medical doctor that's integrative and alternative who can help us understand the complexities of the brain and intimacy.
0:35.0	He's been married 20 years.
0:37.0	He's a parent of a young daughter, and he just gets, in so many ways the challenges, the trials, and the tribulations of long-term partnership,
0:49.0	both from the inside and from the outside helping and treat many people in a variety of settings.
0:57.0	Will is currently doing a legal and legitimate clinical trial monitored by the DEA for MDMA assisted
1:07.3	psychotherapy and if you're not familiar with MDMA its street name is Ecstasy or Molly.
1:15.0	And a lot of certainly Ravers and kids do this, quote, drug.
1:21.0	Yet, the merit of this as an alternative and very effective treatment for
1:27.3	PTSD is gaining momentum. So you're gonna enjoy this if you're interested in the brain, the body, and our
1:36.0	reactivity and if you react in your own marriage and partnership and you
1:42.0	wonder why and you want to maybe take an alternative slant besides
1:46.4	the traditional couples counseling route, this is going to interest you.
1:51.3	I've been experimenting with MDMA, gosh for maybe six months or so, maybe
1:58.0	a little longer. And I do very intentional sessions with friends and specific people to help me see what I'm not seeing
2:07.9	about my patterns and my relationship and how entrenched some of the old patterns are that get brought up in a long-term
2:15.8	relationship like marriage.
2:17.7	So you know I'm a geek on studying myself and I will use any means possible to look under the
2:24.4	hood of my own psychology and find solutions and answers to any block I have or
2:30.9	any issue that's causing me pain in my life.
2:36.0	So MDMA has been recently very helpful for me.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jayson Gaddis, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jayson Gaddis and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.