[FRIAM] Acid epistemology - Eric Help!!!!

[Frank Wimberly]

Ah.  Neuroticism is something like a tendency to be neurotic.  Neurotic is
actually a good diagnosis in psychoanalytic therapy.  It means you're
treatable.  Also it's essentially universal so it's a question of degree.

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Frank C. Wimberly
505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020, 3:05 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why?! Oh why do y'all keep talking about unscientific things when you
> could be talking about scientific things? Dave's report about what goes on
> at a conference is, to me, *exactly* the same as Dave's report about any
> other experience he may have had, high or sober. They're both anecdotal at
> best.
>
> Why talk about the truth-status of unicorns when we could be talking about
> the reliability of predictors of *categories* of experiences like this:
>
> Neuroticism is associated with challenging experiences with psilocybin
> mushrooms.
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781400
>
> > Abstract
> >
> > OBJECTIVES:
> > Classic hallucinogens (e.g. psilocybin and LSD) have substantial effects
> on perception, cognition, and emotion that can often be psychologically
> challenging, however we know very little regarding the source of
> significant individual variability that has been observed in the frequency
> and intensity of challenging experiences (i.e. "bad trips") with
> psychedelics. Previous clinical and observational literature suggests that
> there may be an association between neuroticism and challenging psychedelic
> experiences.
> >
> > METHODS:
> > Data from two online surveys of challenging experiences with psilocybin
> were analyzed. Multivariate analysis was used to estimate the associations
> between total score and scores from seven sub-factors (fear, grief,
> physical distress, insanity, isolation, death, and paranoia) of the
> Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ), and scale scores from the Ten
> Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) in Study 1 (N=1993) and the Big Five
> Inventory (BFI) in Study 2 (N = 981).
> >
> > RESULTS:
> > CEQ scores were negatively associated with emotional stability scores
> (the inverse of neuroticism) in Study 1 and positively associated with
> neuroticism scores in Study 2.
> >
> > CONCLUSIONS:
> > Neuroticism may contribute to the strength of challenging experiences in
> uncontrolled settings.
>
>
>
> On 3/9/20 10:36 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> > First, let’s go back to unicorns.
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
>
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