It's interesting that both PTSD-suffering veterans described the benefit of MDMA with the same words: "I was able to forgive myself."
Whether you call it conscience or superego, how we judge ourselves seems to be important for mental health.
Whether you call it conscience or superego, how we judge ourselves seems to be important for mental health.
Interestingly, in the documentary _Dirty Pictures_[0], and in the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL, Ann Shulgin (widow of Alexander Shulgin, the chemist that re-synthesised MDMA and re-introduced it to the world) talks a lot about the shadow and her work as a therapist whilst working with MDMA shortly after it's effects became known. MDMA was initially trialled by psychiatrists working with the shadow.
Seems like I have some reading material to put off working until this afternoon now :)