Below, you'll find a few specific resources that I rely on, am deeply immersed in, and cherish in the context of my (direct or indirect) interest in psychotherapy and making sense of emotional experiences within multidimensional relational contexts. I express deep gratitude to all the authors whose attitudes are reflected in these papers, and I am left with respect for the limits of my knowledge.


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Carhart-Harris, R. L., Leech, R., Hellyer, P. J., Shanahan, M., Feilding, A., Tagliazucchi, E., Chialvo, D. R., & Nutt, D. (2014). The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states formed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8(20), 1-22.

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