Autistic individuals are more susceptible to trauma due to higher baseline anxiety and overwhelm; poorer episodic memory; and the frequent lack of a sense of community, safety, and belonging that are both protective and needed to heal from trauma. Furthermore, many autistic adults have adopted a false self to get by in a neurotypical world and are often cut off from their affective, embodied...
This article revisits Lacan’s skepticism toward the psychoanalytic value of drug-induced altered states of consciousness in light of the contemporary surge of scientific, therapeutic, and pharmacological investment in psychedelics. Beyond any prescription, interdiction, or theoretical insight, the author shows how Lacan offers a necessary ethical corrective to the use of psychedelics within the...