[FRIAM] is this true?

[Frank Wimberly]

Therapy and drugs can certainly change a life.  I had a friend who worked
for a research organization at the University of Pittsburgh.  He had a
Ph.D. in psychology.  At the time I worked in the Robotics Institute at
Carnegie Mellon. He became interested in my work and wondered if there were
opportunities for him there.  He investigated and was offered a position.
As a faculty member your job was to find a problem solve it and publish the
results and then seek funding for further work but usually you had the
freedom to pursue whatever problem you wanted to within reason.  He was not
used to this lack of structure and he became unhappy.  One night he called
me and was in desperate straits.  I did what it could to encourage him.
He entered therapy with a psychiatrist.  Over the months he became more
productive.  After making some contributions in scheduling and planning
software as I recall, he went to work for a startup and did some excellent
work developing visualization tools.  He was head of a group of a dozen or
more developers and scientists.  The group became a separate business.
After a couple of years it was bought by a fortune 50 company and he was
made head of the division it became.

I don't know whether or how his brain changes but his life certainly did.

Frank

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:58 PM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> ketamine would not be the first drug that was utilized to augment therapy.
> MDA, MDMA, even LSD were all studied as ways to enhance, optimize, therapy.
>
> An therapy, some kinds of it anyway, have also been demonstrated to
> produce very mild altered states of consciousness — somewhat less than
> hypnosis, somewhat greater than attending an old fashioned Catholic Mass.
>
> davew
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, at 3:25 PM, glen ∅ wrote:
>
> From https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/opinion/ketamine-depression.html
> > After all, therapy and prescription drugs like antidepressants change
> the brain in surprisingly similar ways.
>
> Does therapy exhibit changes in the brain similar to drugs (like
> antidepressants or not)?  I wish the author had provided a citation or 2.
>
>
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