alt Hacker NewsThen again what if showing some funky hallucinogenic images/movies would have the same effect on some people? We surely know that people can go crazy (so have psychological effects) in cults and similar settings. What if intense visual/sonic/etc stimulation, visual distortions etc. together with messaging like "it will change your life and cure your anxieties" is the key in this therapy?
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nemomarx • last Friday at 2:19 PM
That's not so much a placebo as a head to head test of different effects? I think you'd do it in a new study entirely
sorcerer-mar • last Friday at 1:10 PM
That isn't how these studies are being done... because yeah, it'd probably confound the results.
> intense visual/sonic/etc stimulation, visual distortions etc. together with messaging like "it will change your life and cure your anxieties" is the key in this therapy?
I sincerely hope this is not at all how any of this works. That sounds like a recipe for paranoia.