Timothy D Brewerton - The Consciousness Library

Rebuttal to “Questioning the recovery of dissociated traumatic memories under psilocybin”

Journal of Eating Disorders February 17, 2026 Stéphanie Knatz Peck, Timothy D Brewerton

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...

DOI: 10.1186/s40337-026-01532-x Full text Rebuttal Traumatic memories Hypnosis Psychotherapist +4

Therapeutic emergence of dissociated traumatic memories during psilocybin treatment for anorexia nervosa

Journal of Eating Disorders May 26, 2025 Julie Trim, Samantha Shao, Nadav Liam Modlin et al. 14 citations

PT may hold promise not only in the treatment of eating disorders but also trauma-related disorders, including PTSD and dissociative amnesia. Potential mechanisms of psilocybin's facilitation of remembering and processing traumatic material is reviewed.

DOI: 10.1186/s40337-025-01274-2 Psilocybin Anorexia nervosa Psychotherapist Hallucinogen

MDMA-assisted therapy significantly reduces eating disorder symptoms in a randomized placebo-controlled trial of adults with severe PTSD.

Journal of Psychiatric Research May 1, 2022 Timothy D Brewerton, Julie B. Wang, Adele Lafrance et al. 81 citations

Eating disorders (EDs) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly comorbid, yet there are no proven integrative treatment modalities for ED-PTSD. In clinical trials, MDMA-assisted therapy (MDMA-AT) has shown marked success in the treatment of PTSD and may be promising for ED-PTSD. Ninety individuals with severe PTSD received treatment in a double-blind, placebo-controlled pivotal trial...

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.03.008 Full text Psychedelic-assisted therapy Eat-26 Eating disorders MDMA-Assisted Therapy +3

The potential use of N-methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDMA) assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of eating disorders comorbid with PTSD.

Medical Hypotheses 2021 Timothy D Brewerton, Adele Lafrance, Michael C Mithoefer 28 citations

Despite advances in the field, eating disorders (EDs) remain very challenging disorders to treat, especially when comorbid with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). N-methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy for treatment refractory PTSD shows great promise, with two-thirds of participants achieving full remission at 1 year or more at follow-up. PTSD is a common...

DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110367 Full text PTSD Eating disorders MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Posttraumatic stress disorder +6

Novel psychopharmacological therapies for psychiatric disorders: psilocybin and MDMA.

Lancet Psychiatry April 5, 2016 Michael C Mithoefer, Charles S. Grob, Timothy D Brewerton 237 citations

4-phosphorloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (psilocybin) and methylenedioxymethamfetamine (MDMA), best known for their illegal use as psychedelic drugs, are showing promise as therapeutics in a resurgence of clinical research during the past 10 years. Psilocybin is being tested for alcoholism, smoking cessation, and in patients with advanced cancer with anxiety. MDMA is showing encouraging results as...

DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(15)00576-3 Psychedelic therapy Post-traumatic stress disorder Psychedelic-assisted treatment Psilocybin therapy +27

Durability of improvement in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and absence of harmful effects or drug dependency after 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted psychotherapy: a prospective long-term follow-up study.

Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) 2013 Michael C Mithoefer, Mark T Wagner, Ann T Mithoefer et al. 377 citations

We report follow-up data evaluating the long-term outcomes for the first completed trial of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy for chronic, treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Mithoefer et al., 2011). All of the 19 subjects who received MDMA-assisted treatment in the original trial participated in the long-term follow-up (LTFU), with 16 out of...

DOI: 10.1177/0269881112456611 Full text Psychedelic therapy MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy MDMA Therapy Ecstasy therapy +18

The phenomenology of psychosis associated with complex partial seizure disorder.

Ann Clin Psychiatry March 1, 1997 Timothy D Brewerton 11 citations

Psychosis commonly occurs as a direct result of complex partial seizure disorder (CPSD). This organic mental disorder is indeed "complex" and is easily and frequently misdiagnosed as a variety of functional disorders, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar illness, psychotic depression, and, at best, "atypical psychosis." However, this important clinical syndrome has several...

DOI: 10.1023/a:1026230308668

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