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Should I help you kill yourself?

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Episode 21 - Should I help you kill yourself? The Lens

Physician assisted suicide is legal in some states and countries. Should mental health counselors play a part in that process? Or is suicide a therapist's ultimate failure? What is our job anyway?

Show Notes

Denis answers a listener question about the legality and addictiveness of psilocybin.

Denis mentioned the exhaustive investigation of the efficacy of psychedelically assisted therapy found in Michael Pollan's book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.

Denis plans to meet Michael Pollan (or at least see him speak) at the Horizon's conference this October.