This story is part of The Trip, a CPR News series on Colorado’s new psychedelic movement.
If you speak with health experts and therapists working with psychedelics, you’ll find a common thread in their work: helping patients discover ways to shape their current outlook and narrative.
Phrases like ‘getting a new perspective’ or ‘seeing from a new point of view’ are likely to come up. They’ll tell you that’s because much of what’s at the intersection of psychedelics and medicine is story — both the stories people struggling with PTSD have lived through and those they’ve come to believe about themselves and their ailments…