narcosynthesis, which was used during World War II to treat trauma.
psychedelic therapy for PTSD,
potential for a new AI-assisted approach for drawing lessons from this complex history.
Narcosynthesis failed because there is no “short cut” to healing from trauma. Insofar as effective psychedelic therapy draws on lessons from narcosynthesis, it’s mainly about what not to do.
AI therapy is poised to become the narcosynthesis of the 2020s — a supposedly faster and cheaper replacement for “real” therapy.
My method was simply to copy and paste Youtube’s automatically-generated transcript of the film, then ask Claude to summarize its key points.
The results were flawed but intriguing. Claude was able to deduce the context of a quote (such as “psychiatrist hypnotizing patient” and “narrator”) without having access to any data that showed this — it was simply given a raw transcript with many errors and no indication of the setting or speaker.
narcosynthesis, which was used during World War II to treat trauma.
psychedelic therapy for PTSD,
potential for a new AI-assisted approach for drawing lessons from this complex history.
Narcosynthesis failed because there is no “short cut” to healing from trauma. Insofar as effective psychedelic therapy draws on lessons from narcosynthesis, it’s mainly about what not to do.
AI therapy is poised to become the narcosynthesis of the 2020s — a supposedly faster and cheaper replacement for “real” therapy.
My method was simply to copy and paste Youtube’s automatically-generated transcript of the film, then ask Claude to summarize its key points.
The results were flawed but intriguing. Claude was able to deduce the context of a quote (such as “psychiatrist hypnotizing patient” and “narrator”) without having access to any data that showed this — it was simply given a raw transcript with many errors and no indication of the setting or speaker.
