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A Prediction Error-driven Retrieval Procedure for Destabilizing and Rewriting Maladaptive Reward Memories in Hazardous Drinkers
Published on: January 5, 2018
Background:
Recently Bram Enning published his thesis about the Leiden professor J. Bastiaans. After the Second World War Bastiaans treated resistance fighters with a controversial method that involved the use of LSD.
Aim:
To paint a picture of Bastiaans’ career and working method and of the controversies that his method caused.
Method:
Enning’s thesis is discussed.
Results:
It is revealing to read how unscientific Bastiaans’ method actually was and it is shocking to see how politics did its utmost to defend his method.
Conclusion:
The case of Bastiaans makes it clear that in our society scientific values are apparently less relevant than political and social desirability.
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