Pubdate: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 Source: Georgia Straight, The (CN BC) Copyright: 2007 The Georgia Straight Contact: http://www.straight.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1084 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1235/a06.html Author: Mike Tropp DRUG THERAPY A DATED HOLDOVER OR EMPOWERING? Re: "The quest for the ultimate cure for addiction" [Oct. 25-Nov. 1] Ibogaine: memories of Hunter S. Thompson's writings, and memories of the long-gone Hollywood Hospital in New Westminster back in the late 1960s, where the senior psychiatrist believed that alcoholics could be cured by means of LSD "therapy". Every comment in the ibogaine article reminded me of what many (millions) said about tripping on LSD. Counterculture counsellors and therapists felt that LSD could bring such intensity to insight that all would forever be different for those in need of personal renovation. After decades in the therapy business, I'm convinced-as are many others-that the "talking cure" (insight) is a tired holdover from psychoanalytic assumptions, and that the behaviourist methodologies come closer to achieving therapeutic goals. Some of them, anyway. Mike Tropp Vancouver - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake