[AndrewThrowaway]

Then again what if showing some funky hallucinogenic images/movies would have the same effect on some people? We surely know that people can go crazy (so have psychological effects) in cults and similar settings. What if intense visual/sonic/etc stimulation, visual distortions etc. together with messaging like "it will change your life and cure your anxieties" is the key in this therapy?

[cassianoleal]

> intense visual/sonic/etc stimulation, visual distortions etc. together with messaging like "it will change your life and cure your anxieties" is the key in this therapy?

I sincerely hope this is not at all how any of this works. That sounds like a recipe for paranoia.

[nemomarx]

That's not so much a placebo as a head to head test of different effects? I think you'd do it in a new study entirely

[sorcerer-mar]

That isn't how these studies are being done... because yeah, it'd probably confound the results.