In his best-selling book "The Body Keeps the Score," psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk explores the effects of EMDR, yoga, and limbic system therapy on treating patients suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
In a recent study, van der Kolk and his co-authors found a new way of potentially helping patients heal: therapy-assisted MDMA.
"A very core issue in treating trauma, namely, is people tend to blame themselves, hate themselves, put themselves down, feel like they're permanently broken," van der Kolk says.
Participants who took MDMA seemed to gain a different viewpoint of their trauma, the study found.
The results are something van der Kolk says he "had never expected we would be able to see."
Persons:
Bessel van, van der Kolk, Bessel, der Kolk
Locations:
United States