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kayla greenstien

@kgreenstien.bsky.social
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Former DFV/SA response worker Non-prohibitionist critical psychedelia Euphorically queer and childfree by choice Anti-fascist 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 deeepbreaths.substack.com

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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
PhD opportunity on bush doofs: www.curtin.edu.au/research/hdr...
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Developing a deeper understanding of Bush Doofs from those with ‘lived experience’
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 23/07/2026
When we started the visceral mind project, we promised to publish what we found null and otherwise, and we delivered!
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Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One week for post-grad and post-docs to express interest in presenting at our Breakup Workshop 💔👇🏻
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
only a step or two away from psychedelic therapy options for forced addiction treatment in Saskatchewan? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Involuntary addiction treatment now legal in Sask. despite medical groups' warnings | CBC News
The Compassionate Intervention Act is expected to come into force this fall after regulations are finalized. People forced into treatment will be taken to Saskatchewan Hospital, a psychiatric facility...
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Shocking scan results: I have a brain. Will update when I figure out if it has consciousness.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
How long before Amy and John Griffin leave NYC and blame it on lawsuit backlash from The Tell (it's actually Mamdani)
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The same year that Doblin started MAPS (1986) to spread the good word of Stan Grof, Albert Ellis predicted that "the extremists who may well blow us all to bits in the not-too-distant future will most probably hold and implement transpersonal attitudes."
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Transpersonal psychology is a new religious movement.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Yes I see that. The vibes really amplify the depth — almost like taking a psychedelic. The noetic quality—everything seems/feels more profound. can get similarly obnoxious pretty fast ;)
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Could it be that 14 year old white girls who are being sexualised by all men and held up as both wickedly powerful while having no real power, actually have a pretty sophisticated view of the world…
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A memory researcher was falsely accused of rape due to "unconscious transferrence" -- the very phenomenon he studies. The story has been uncritically repeated in psych textbooks/media for decades, yet I can find no evidence it happened. Here's everything I found: medium.com/@kgreenstien...
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Why has no one questioned memory researcher Don Thomson on his claim of being falsely accused of…
A few months ago, I was teaching third-year cognitive psychology when a famous case came up in the module content. The case involves…
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
How/why can Michael Pollan seriously get away with saying behaviourism was the dominant school of thought in psych in the 20th century? I have noticed this kind of behaviourism strawman from Grof/MAPS-oriented people in psychedelics for a while, completely ignoring the entire cog revolution
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
There it is
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
“As the 2010s rolled on, the Carhart-Harris group at Imperial College consistently found precisely what they had expected to find” (lmao)
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is so misleading — more clear evidence of how entrenched dubious ideas about memory are in psychedelic therapy.
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sknorc.bsky.social @sknorc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Thank you @profcrunk.bsky.social for calling out the issue underlying the scourge of mass shootings in this country. Mental health is the easy answer, and it is obviously part of the problem, but the patriarchy rotting our society from the roots has to be addressed. www.thecut.com/article/shre...
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The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’
When a man shoots his wife and children, the term you are looking for is patriarchy.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’
Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Happy 83rd anniversary of the first (macro) LSD trip and don‘t forget: there’s nothing about being high on LSD that makes you better at remembering 🫠
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ultimate nightmare blunt rotation
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Housing affordability is a gender issue!
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Thanks so much - the gabor mate dig and photo is so weird ha
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Also: the people who know and try to do something about it are frequently punished in extreme and disproportionate ways.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“A good therapist will tell you snakes symbolise transformation“ says NYT reporter re: his experience of ”surrendering“ to Ibogaine. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... Coincidentally, released on the 73rd anniversary of MK Ultra. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"The patient is often part of the issue", Phil Wolfson, November 2024, re: therapists sexually abusing patients.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
There is no story that makes it okay for Wolfson to have discovered the abuses and for Michael Mithoefer/MAPS to not know for some significant period of time between Wolfson finding out and the victim-survivor sending an email about it. Whatever story you think makes this okay, doesnt. Full stop.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I think there are many backroom convos happening around MAPS. I think it's not unlikely that these convos also involve people being on drugs and a lot more receptive to stories excusing abuses that are really just the delusions common to all orgs committing a cover-up of deeper issues.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The story is then only really held in the upper management, where it goes unchallenged because of course, the story is bonkers and management across organisations (because at some point, others become involved) collectively acting in the most self-serving way to avoid any challenge to their power.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Almost every case of institutional abuse involves a pattern like this: amongst the upper management, a collective story emerges that absolves who/whatever of whatever the accusations are. This is drip fed to 'lowers' and becomes: you don't know what you're talking about, shut-up,
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I think it's likely there are a fair few people who have heard an "insiders" story about Yensen and Dryer's abuses. I also remembering hearing murmurs years ago that there was "more to the story", implying we shouldn't be overly critical of MAPS. This kind of secret-knowledge is very predictable.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@monashuniversity.bsky.social , the school I worked as a research assistant for on the national plan to end violence against women, has been supporting an organisation that is actively flagrantly avoiding accountability for sexual abuse in their clinical trial. It is in all sense of the word: insane
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@monashuniversity.bsky.social , my alma mater, is the most embarrassing supporter of MAPS. A university I studied at, for years now, supporting the training of clinicians with Holotropic Breathwork, a New Age anti-psychiatry movement with its core foundations in recovering repressed memories.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It's also an organisation that to this day, is actively covering up abuses in their trial. They knew about Yensen and Dryer *months* before they claim to have found out in order to protect their reputation and avoid financial liability. That's what's happening today and every day.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
And to be clear, MAPS always was and has been an org dedicated to Grofian transpersonal psychology. It is plain and simple an org dedicated to *antiscience* and the dismantling of all accountability in mental health care. It's that simple.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A stunning number of you don't seem to read or listen to anything from this org beyond whatever mix of fa-la-la corpredellic Grofian newspeak ressonates with you and all your insights from your last trip.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Until then, I'll continue to post into the void about the overwhelming callousness and disregard for ethics and reality this org has. And I will continue to be angry, frankly, that so many Australian clinicians and researchers are so ignorantly falling over yourselves to court MAPS.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
In 10-20 years from now when a proper documentary on MAPS comes out, I will be playing this on repeat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz1J...
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The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by thehivestv
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Reading @psychedelicoverground.com 's newletter on making an April fools day joke about becming MAPS australia's new directr and I can't say enough how what an inconceivable level of bonkers to me that anyone takes MAPS or Rick Doblin seriously still.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I spoke with Jacobin about how the RBA is a key instrument of the capitalists to keep their boots on our neck, one nation, housing and how the Labor-dominated union movement has been completely absent on housing here: jacobin.com/2026/04/aust...
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Australia Has a Serious Landlord Problem
Landlords dominate Australia’s parliament and Reserve Bank. Their policies make the housing crisis worse.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"emergent material" is the new "repressed memories"
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The whole paper is a strawman argument. Yehuda et al first acknowledge MAPS manual is based on transpersonal psych then claim the whole issue with the manual was that it wasn't 'manualised' enough for some clicians. They never mention transpersonal psych again, instead emphasising the humanistic
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yehuda et al 2026 cite Yehuda et al 2015 to support their claim that trauma research supports "enabling integration of previously fragmented or avoided experiences" yet this is nowhere in the 2015 paper. Imo, this is a dangerous sanitisation of transpersonal psych + opens doors to repressed memory
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ronan Farrow and Hamilton Morris are both 1987 NYC nepo babies. One grew up with a predator, saw the realities of how systems protect them and speaks truth to power. The other didn't and spends his time mocking and belittling victim-survivors, saying they're liars.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Nutt also connected Fischer to Ben Sessa to write an absurd article all about this -- this field is so unserious journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
e.g. ABC on fears of false allegations www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
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Guys, you can stop worrying about false rape allegations. They’re extremely rare - triple j
Around 5 per cent of reports are classified as false - but that doesn’t always mean an allegation has been maliciously made up.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I've found writing/reporting on men's fears about false allegations, but never whether/when these fears become narratives/false allegations in themselves -- has anyone found discussions of this?
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Working in DFV/family court services, I have seen several cases of men clearly fabricating that they were falsely accused of rape. It's a thing. Is this what's happening in the Donald Thomson case? I have no idea, but it's certainly possible.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Another red flag is that the entire story sounds like a male fantasy. There is a heroism and martyrdom to it. Schacter's retelling emphasises how awful it was for Donald, placing the reader in his shoes.
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
It's quite amazing just how often this story is restated as fact, with barely any details. I've never seen info on what TV show he was on, what city this took place in, how/why exactly the victim was able to name Don Thomson if she thought he was the perpetrator, not Don Thomson, researcher on TV?
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kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The first reference I found was in Read et al., 1990, citing personal communication with Thomson. I can find no media reporting on the case prior to this, though to be fair, he has a very common name which could make searches a bit trickier. Still, I would have expected to find something by now
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