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  • The Moment of Awareness
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  • At the opposite end of the spectrum is Harry Hermon, a

    lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Manhattan psychiatrist who believes that the only case against the use of marijuana in psychotherapy is the current marijuana law. Hermon argues that cannabis "puts the patient in a more receptive and empathetic state" and maintains that perception, recall, and the ability to interact are all enhanced by smoking. He advocates its use for both sex therapy and couples therapy, explaining that "a couple who is fighting can smoke a joint together and will stop fighting on the spot. They get into a completely different flow, and are transcended to a different level of awareness."
        A humanistic psychologist practicing in
    Boston once found himself unexpectedly stoned during a session. He had come home from work one evening and was smoking a joint while cooking dinner. Alone in the house, he had the stereo playing and, with an entire, unscheduled evening ahead of him, was unwinding from a difficult day. Then the phone rang; it was a patient who was very angry about an interaction that had occurred earlier in the day. The therapist recalls:

    I was caught off balance. I don't believe that marijuana has any place in therapy, and I wasn't even sure I was capable of listening to her. She didn't know I was stoned, and I didn't tell her; I decided to go ahead with the call. I found I was able to listen very closely to what she was saying, and we talked for about an hour. After the first few minutes I was no longer anxious about being stoned. Because she was a patient, and was upset, I put a lot of effort into the conversation. And apparently, because I was stoned, I paid extra close attention to what she was saying, as I didn't want the conversation to slip away from me. I kept asking her to explain more and more about how she was feeling.
        The next time we met, she insisted on paying me for the hour on the phone. I didn't ask her to, but something important had occurred during that phone call. During the entire hour I found myself feeling the feelings that were behind our words, and apparently she could feel them too.


        Even if they are smokers themselves, most therapists are understandably cautious about using marijuana with their patients. First there is the legal problem, which is enormous. But there are other obstacles as well. "Smoking with certain patients could be useful," one woman suggests, "but what if the patient got into a status thing, 'I smoked with my shrink'?" A therapist in
    Chicago articulates a commonly held position:

    A person's time is his to use in the way he finds meaningful, within very broad limits. I don't mind if a patient comes to me stoned, but I won't supply anybody with marijuana, and I make it clear that I won't be smoking. That way, I don't have to lose any sleep at night worrying about somebody trying to put me out of business because he doesn't like my way of doing things.


        In
    Boston, a distinguished psychiatrist on the faculty of a well-regarded medical school refers to psychoanalysis as one of the two major growth experiences in his own adult life. The other is marijuana:

    I notice that some of my colleagues apparently assume that when you're high, you're off in some corner by yourself. But in fact, marijuana helps people get very close and become involved with each other, which is very different from withdrawing.
        I have found that during a marijuana high, I have gained insights which I had not achieved even with four years of analysis. These have been insights which have made me a better person—I realize that sounds trite—and which have helped me to see things about myself which I hadn't been aware of. Sometimes these insights have been accompanied by a considerable degree of anxiety, but in analysis, too, that's part of the process.
        Some of the insights don't seem very important later on, but others seem just as important. Some have been in the area of loving. There are ways that the marijuana high can help a person be more aware of the barriers which sometimes prevent or inhibit the expression of love.


       

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