Rick Doblin - SPECIAL - Healing War Trauma with MDMA

MDMA-assisted therapy could be key to healing Ukraine's war trauma—and might even help mend our own divided society's psychological wounds.

Key Insights:

MAPS' Phase 3 clinical trials showed 72.6% of severe PTSD patients no longer qualified for diagnosis after MDMA therapy

Group therapy combined with MDMA shows enormous promise for healing communities facing widespread trauma

Epigenetic research suggests processing trauma with psychedelics could prevent passing trauma to future generations

America's social division is creating its own psychological "war zone" that might benefit from psychedelic-assisted healing

Links & Resources:

MAPS - Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Psychedelic Science 2025 - Denver, June 16-20, 2025

Mind Body Health & Politics

Superhumans Center Ukraine

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Introduction: Four Decades of Psychedelic Medicine Advocacy

(00:03:00) - The Dark History Behind Drug Prohibition and Criminalization

(00:05:42) - Inside Ukraine: Air Raid Sirens and Everyday Resilience

(00:09:00) - Why MDMA Works: Revolutionary Results from PTSD Clinical Trials

(00:16:00) - "I Don't Think I'll Have to Go to Nepal Now": Patient Transformation Stories

(00:24:00) - From Underground to Mainstream: Political Science of Psychedelic Medicine

(00:32:00) - Visiting the Cemetery of Flags: Confronting Ukraine's Massive Trauma

(00:38:00) - Beyond Individual Therapy: Scaling MDMA Treatment for an Entire Nation

(00:45:00) - Group Therapy's Multiplier Effect: Learning Through Others' Healing

(00:50:00) - Transforming Relationships: MDMA's Potential for Couples and Families

(00:54:00) - America's Own War Zone: How Social Division Creates Collective Trauma

(00:59:00) - From Self-Actualization to Self-Transcendence: Maslow's Psychedelic Evolution

(01:02:00) - The Astronaut Perspective: Seeing One Planet of People, Not Countries

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