Art and Social Anxiety: Laurence Couchman

Laurence has a history of Social Anxiety, and credits his art with helping to overcome that… https://t.co/xZEEozekA4 — Kyle MacDonald (@kylemacd) November 8, 2015 Laurence is an untrained artist who, eighteen months ago, was deep in an abstract expressionist phase, enjoying the influence of greats from Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner to Robert Rauschenberg and…

LSD Research for Treatment of Anxiety and Depression

http://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/ptsd-trauma-and-stressor-related/psychedelics-promising-for-anxiety-depression-addiction-and-ptsd/article/437635/ A small trial conducted in 2014 in Switzerland demonstrated the potential for LSD-assisted psychotherapy to reduce anxiety stemming from terminal illness. At two-month follow-up, participants who were randomly assigned to treatment with LSD showed significant reductions in state anxiety. At one-year follow-up, participants in the LSD group demonstrated sustained therapeutic benefit with no acute…