Recent debates about AI "guardrails" in mental health have framed a problem as one of detecting delusion. This paper argues that such framing misunderstands both psychiatry and large language models. In clinical practice, delusion is not simply a false belief but a structure of conviction that stabilizes meaning under conditions of uncertainty. Large language models, by contrast, generate...
Well-trained, competent therapists are crucial for safe and effective psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT). The question whether PAT training programs should require aspiring therapists to undergo their own PAT-commonly referred to as "experiential training"-has received much attention within the field. In this article, we analyze the potential benefits of experiential training in PAT by applying...
DOI: 10.1002/hast.1602 (opens in new tab)Psychedelic therapist trainingExperiential psychedelic trainingTherapist psychedelic experiencePsychedelic-assisted therapy education+18
Field notes Erik Parens, Senior Research Scholar Speaking in different registers. This past fall I was in Heidelberg at a wonderful conference sponsored by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. One of the meeting's aims was to bring together neuroscientists, sociologists, philosophers, and others to talk about the ethical and social meanings of advances in neuroscience. The organizers not...