This may not be the forum for this question, but not sure who else to direct this to.

I was wondering of Psych Central would publish an article describing the emerging field of psychedelic assisted therapy? I would be happy to write an article for your e-zine. Tell me who to contact if this is not the proper venue….

Thanks, and I love your e-zine. I require it for all my students!

Bruce Sewick

I enjoy your column. suggesting more topics when you already talk about things that hit home. maybe more about spirituality, meditation, self love, marriage, how to feel good about yourself when you have a serious illness.

thank you

Thank you all so much for your feedback so far…

If you’re just seeing this, please go ahead and put your two (or three) cents in.

I look forward to integrating this all into our Mindfulness and Psychotherapy community here in 2010

~ Elisha

-Different approaches to different kinds of anxiety disorders: should OCD be treated different in a mindfulness context from GAD, for instance?

-Mindfulness as used in other therapies & contexts: how is mindfulness used in DBT, ACT, MBCT, various Buddhist traditions, etc. In other words, how can mindfulness be used in a larger context of overal approaches to well-being? How can it fit into larger wholes?

Thanks for listening!

Hi Dr. Goldstein. I love to reading your blog. I would like to know how mindfulness can help with PSTD. Like, what can you do when hit with flashbacks? Thanks for all your articles.

I would like to see some exploration of the connection between “mindfulness” and other, older ideas in psychology and psychotherapy. For me, making “mindfulness” so exotic, so “Eastern”, detracts from its usefulness. I think being mindful is pretty close simply to not censoring thoughts. (Freud on censorship.) It is what “free association” is supposed to achieve: the relaxation of censorship. Thus it is connected to what are thought of as “older” techniques of therapy; it is NOT _entirely_ new and strange.

And it is connected to what distinguishes a successful therapy with one that is not: whether a therapist himself or herself is freely aware of his or her own thoughts, whether the T’s thoughts stream unchecked (unchoked?), so that the T relates his own thoughts to what the patient is telling him, and thus gets “insight” into the patient.

Hi David,

Thank you so much for your thoughts. To answer your immediate question, every time someone writes a comment for the first time it will say “comment is awaiting moderation,” this is to control spam. Once you’re in, you’re in, and you’re in .

Second, I absolutely agree, mindfulness and psychotherapy is not simply about eastern philosophies, the concept intersects psychoanalysis as you aptly write and a multitude of other areas.

I will try and weave this more explicitly in my writings so people are aware of this.

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