Summary of Dr. Peter Silverstone's The Promise of Psychedelics

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#1 Low self-esteem is the opposite of high self-esteem. It is a state of mind that corrodes mental health. It is difficult to change, and many people have it. It is often linked to emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, trauma, neglect, or bullying.

#2 My passion to improve self-esteem started early in my psychiatry training, when I was still in medical school. I had traveled to Burlington, Vermont in 1981 for some specialized training in endocrinology, which is the study of hormones.

#3 I once treated a teenage girl named Anna who was deeply unhappy. Her mother, who was a therapist, was encouraging her to be sick so her father would stay with her. Anna’s mother was also negative about her daughter, constantly putting her down.

#4 I believe that low self-esteem is an underlying factor for many other conditions. It is alarmingly common, and yet we have yet to find a way of improving it. If we could improve self-esteem, particularly in youth and young adults, we may be able to transform the lives of millions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822525962

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Insights on Dr. Peter Silverstone's The Promise of Psychedelics

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Low self-esteem is the opposite of high self-esteem. It is a state of mind that corrodes mental health. It is difficult to change, and many people have it. It is often linked to emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, trauma, neglect, or bullying.

#2

My passion to improve self-esteem started early in my psychiatry training, when I was still in medical school. I had traveled to Burlington, Vermont in 1981 for some specialized training in endocrinology, which is the study of hormones.

#3

I once treated a teenage girl named Anna who was deeply unhappy. Her mother, who was a therapist, was encouraging her to be sick so her father would stay with her. Anna’s mother was also negative about her daughter, constantly putting her down.

#4

I believe that low self-esteem is an underlying factor for many other conditions. It is alarmingly common, and yet we have yet to find a way of improving it. If we could improve self-esteem, particularly in youth and young adults, we may be able to transform the lives of millions.

#5

The question of the cut-off point between normal and abnormal, or between not having or having a mental health disorder, has led to active discussions and frequent disagreements over several decades.

#6

The same can be said about patients. They have a gradient of symptoms, and there are no sharp cut-off points. Individuals who are at the edge for any cut-off point are not well served by this approach.

#7

The approach of using cut-off points means that most psychiatric diagnoses are wrong. If we go back about one hundred years, Emil Kraepelin, considered the father of modern scientific psychiatry, determined that there was a spectrum of mood disorders that was different from the spectrum of schizophrenic and psychotic disorders.

#8

Scientific trends are constantly changing, and it is important

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Very helpful analysis. I feel I got the gist of the book, very succinctly. Thank you.