Tim Kaiser
I am a psychologist working at the intersection of psychotherapy research and quantitative methods. Currently working on causal learning and attribution methods at @fupsych.bsky.social
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- The push for psychedelic therapy trials to address unblinding is good. But my impression is that the large majority of all mental health interventions rely on trials with poor blinding. Should we not recommend psychotherapy, exercise, all psychiatric drugs with noticeable effects, etc?
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View full threadI think there haven't been nearly enough participants to get significant data on attempts (at least for MDMA). MDMA trials showed really good results on ideation, but that's self report.
- Ok, ideation also decreases with SSRIs, but suicide attempts tend not to. I'm curious to see where psychedelics rank here. I'm always not so sure what role unblinding plays in such "hard" outcomes.
- Good morning form the Tay, indeed! 🙋🚲 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot ? 😊
- Is this the Tay Fontane wrote his hideou… uh, famous poem about?
- There's an extremely interesting backstory to the current claim by intelligence researchers that men lie on the extreme ends of intelligence distribution. It used to be that intelligence research simply postulated higher intelligence in men. This made a lot of sense to intelligence researchers. 1/
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View full threadFans of intelligence research will link to genetics research at this point, trying to tie down an objective way to measure the connection, undisturbed by bias from confounders. But, for very similar reasons as the one above, that doesn't help at all either. 12/
- I'm personally not a fan of intelligence research, but it is a predictor of social mobility within different SES groups and this seems like it helps understand an important phenomenon in society. What do you make of this?
- It would probably be helpful to evaluate all these interventions using more than symptom rating scales. What’s the latest data on psychedelics reducing suicide attempts for example?
- It should be noted that this meta-analysis compares correlational evidence (alliance w/ outcome) to experimental drug-placebo differences. Then again, it is debatable how well a placebo works in psychedelics studies
- Menschen beleidigen und abwerten vielleicht nicht die klügste Strategie zum Start als #Bundeskanzler. Aber was weiß ich schon…
- Gab es vor 30 Jahren schonmal sehr ähnlich de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruck-Rede
- Can I be in the control group please thank you
- Last year, @jacobsaday.bsky.social and @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social asked: "Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy: where is the psychotherapy research?" link.springer.com/article/10.1... How soon can we say "here it comes"?
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View full threadDisagree! I think this would be a fun & fruitful in-person discussion. It's a shame that we didn't meet at the recent DGVT Congress at FU Berlin.
- Are you coming to the most important conference for psychotherapy research (SPR)? ;)
- Sure, people can overcome fears through incidental/naturalistic exposure (that's how I cured my fear of slugs as a teenager), but that doesn’t make it psychotherapy. What makes exposure therapy is the structured, intentional use of those stimuli within a psychological framework.
- Same with psychedelics: taking them on your own isn’t therapy, using them in PT doesn’t convert their pharmacological effects into psychological ones. We’re integrating two components, one psychological, one pharmacological.
