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Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder
Published on: March 8, 2018
Rebuttal to "Questioning the recovery of dissociated traumatic memories under psilocybin"
Stephanie Knatz Peck1, Timothy D Brewerton2
1Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. sknatz@health.ucsd.edu.
Abstract:
In our original case report we provide detailed accounts of two research participants who reported the emergence of spontaneously recovered, previously forgotten traumatic memories of sexual assaults during psilocybin treatment. In their commentary of this article, Kangaslampi et al. argue that we preemptively label the experiences as dissociated traumatic memories in the absence of corroborating evidence and consideration of alternative explanations. Here we further address potential therapeutic effects associated with the classification of experiences and provide a rebuttal to the authors' criticisms on our chosen nomenclature.
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