What Karl Friston thinks about Psychotherapy
Neuroscientist at University College London; developer of the free-energy principle and active inference, and of statistical parametric mapping for brain imaging.
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2 dated positions, 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Karl Friston has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingPsychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs.
Their wordsIn this paper, we propose that psychedelics can be therapeutically effective, precisely because they target the high levels of the brain’s functional hierarchy, primarily affecting the precision weighting of high-level priors or beliefs.
↗REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelicspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 10 from this paper
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Their wordsIt is an ideal of psychedelic therapy that this newly available content be appropriately integrated and assimilated into existing mental models so that more of the inner and outer world can be processed.
↗REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelicspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 10 from this paper