Homophobia, Holotropic Breathwork and the MAPS therapeutic manual for MDMA therapy

Western psychedelia has a regrettably colourful history of scientists, psychiatrists and other ne’er-do-wells attempting to exert power and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18212449-acid-dreams" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">manipulate behaviour through psychedelics</a>. It is often forgotten that influential figures like Timothy Leary and Stanislav Grof used and promoted <a href="https://plasticbrainblog.com/2019/05/29/history-psychedelic-gay-conversion-therapy/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">psychedelic conversion therapy</a> to ‘cure’ patients of their homosexuality. Today, more people are asking how to make psychedelics safer for queer people. Queer scholars have pioneered a new era of scholarship in this field, and prominent organisations like MAPS and the Chacruna Institute are actively promoting the inclusion of marginalised voices and <a href="https://maps.org/news/media/vice-psychedelics-are-for-queer-folks-too-2/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">queer-affirming therapy</a>. However, past work is often still uncritically referenced without acknowledgment of the homophobic undertones. Queer inclusion needs to be an ongoing conversation about how to make proclamations of queer inclusion a reality. <a href="https://medium.com/@kgreenstien/homophobia-holotropic-breathwork-and-the-maps-model-of-mdma-therapy-b18fe1125f3b">Website</a>