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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.56,0:00:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am Andrew Feldmar.\NI am a psychologist.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.91,0:00:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have practised psychotherapy for about 40 years in Vancouver, Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.31,0:00:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I belong to the Canadian Psychological Association and right now I'm involved in a study
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.77,0:00:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the help of MAPS.\NIngrid Pacey, a Vancouver Psychiatrist, and myself
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.45,0:00:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are starting a study about the effectiveness of MDMA as an adjunct to psychotherapy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.18,0:00:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why MDMA? Why are we studying MDMA?\NWell, studies that have been already completed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.52,0:00:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way before it became an illegal substance and now recently with a change in the attitude of the times
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.45,0:01:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it looks like MDMA allows one to enter into a state of consciousness where suddenly maybe for some people
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.17,0:01:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the very first time in their lives they find themselves without shame.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.33,0:01:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They find themselves with an open heart, where maybe for decades their heart has been closed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.84,0:01:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they haven't even noticed it.\NSo it allows for connection.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.87,0:01:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The major effect of PTSD is inability to make meaningful connections.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.62,0:01:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Judith Lewis Herman, a Harvard psychiatrist, actually argues that all the syndromes listed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.84,0:01:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and catalogued, in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual that the American Psychiatric Association uses
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.56,0:01:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of it really boils down to PTSD.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.36,0:02:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if we can make headway with an efficient way of relieving people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.66,0:02:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the after effects of trauma or traumas then in a way we alleviate the entire field of mental distress,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.80,0:02:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just what is now strictly believed to be PTSD.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.85,0:02:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.32,0:02:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interview courtesy of "From Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines" by Oliver Hockenhull.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.99,0:02:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Film to be released later in 2012.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.84,0:02:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Multidsciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies\Nmaps.org