Therapy for traumatised South Africans?

South Africa experiences excessively high levels of domestic violence - it's the bitter fruit of what happens when abused, traumatised, neglected boys grow up to become men. What if we could introduce this sort of therapy into South Africa? 

The protocol: a few counselling sessions, and just three sessions where you are dosed with the drug MDMA. 

Watch this deeply moving film about how two young men, whose psyches have been shattered by the trauma of war, are able to claw their lives back with this new form of therapy. 

 


Hallucinogenic mushrooms as medicine, in Weekend Argus newspaper

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Medical technology breakthroughs that we take for granted: birth control; c-sections; penicillin, cataract surgery. What if we had a similar breakthrough technology for the treatment of mood disorders and addictions?

Our constitution upholds the right to have access to evidence-based health care... but what if our laws regarding certain drugs get in the way of that right?

Next year, the Western Cape High Court will be asked to decide about psilocybin mushrooms.

The Weekend Argus (Sunday edition), in a Q&A with science writer Leonie Joubert about The Psychonauts podcast, which looks at the therapeutic potential of psychedelics (psychedelics as medicine), ahead of hallucinogenic mushrooms going on trial in SA in 2018.