
Protected: Psychedelic Doctor, Recovering Healer: A Memoir
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Abstract This report advances the central thesis that the Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) provides a scientifically robust and legally defensible framework for re-conceptualizing addiction as an adaptive, trauma-related dissociative response. Prevailing psychiatric and legal paradigms have historically failed to produce operational definitions for addiction, leading to systemic failures in both treatment and jurisprudence. This

The Foundational Theses, Business Model, and Legal Framework of the Wounded Healers Institute Executive Summary Current medical, psychological, and legal systems are fundamentally failing to address human suffering. They operate on incomplete and flawed definitions of addiction and trauma, and more critically, are themselves pathologically addicted to power, control, and systemic denial. This document introduces

1. Introduction: The Transformative Power of the Wound The archetype of the Wounded Healer is not a comforting story of personal growth; it is a radical challenge to the very foundation of modern healing. It asserts that true authority to heal is born not from academic credentials or institutional licensure, but from the qualitative supremacy

The Crisis of Cognitive Centrality: Why Educational Learning Theories Fail to Integrate Trauma and Dissociative Awareness Abstract Current educational and learning theories, including Knowles’ Andragogy, Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (MI), the Learning Pyramid, and Bloom’s Taxonomy, operate from a cognitive-centric, quantitative paradigm that fundamentally misrepresents the learning process. This paper argues that these models remain incomplete

The professional and academic debate over the classification of certain therapeutic modalities as “pseudoscience” is scrutinized by the sources as a politically charged tactic, akin to modern ‘Cancel Culture’, used by dominant quantitative institutions to exert power, enforce standardization, perfectionistic standards, and eliminate competing qualitative worldviews. This framing is essential to understanding the dynamics between

Executive Summary This briefing synthesizes a comprehensive and polemical critique of contemporary psychiatric, legal, and governmental systems. The central thesis posits that these institutions operate within a fundamentally flawed, “industrialized” paradigm characterized by systemic addiction, dissociation, and developmental immaturity. This pathology manifests as a reliance on incomplete psychological diagnostics, a quantitative and reductionist worldview that

1.0 Introduction: A System in Crisis and a Call for a New Paradigm The systems governing mental health are beset by fundamental design flaws and moral compromises that result in outcomes often detrimental to genuine healing. The landscape of care is in a state of acute crisis, necessitating an urgent and fundamental paradigm shift. The

Introduction The systemic issues of overprescribing and overdiagnosing addressed by the MAHA initiative are rooted in professional and institutional addiction to maintaining a flawed status quo. The Wounded Healers Institute (WHI) asserts that the field of psychiatry, psychology, law, and insurance practices are complicit in upholding these psychological constructs because this perpetuates their professional necessity

Navigating the Moral-Ethical Labyrinth: Unseen Truth of Diagnostic Privilege

The philosophical critique inherent in the work of Dr. Adam O’Brien and the Wounded Healers Institute (WHI) fundamentally challenges the intellectual architecture of modern reductionism, best exemplified by the rigid adherence to the mathematical certainty of 1+1=2. When this absolute binary logic is applied to the complexities of human relationships, trauma, and consciousness, it becomes

Wounded Healers, using the new APA recent guidelines (HERE), AI analytically explored our programming and care. The American Psychological Association (APA) has established a set of aspirational guidelines for trauma-informed care, emphasizing the need for practitioners to understand the widespread impact of trauma, the biology of stress, and the social and cultural contexts in which

When a citizen is murdered for voicing a different view, our collective wisdom insists that we are one big family, that disagreements are settled through debate and law, not violence. This is the moral high ground we preach. Yet, when we hold this wisdom up to our society’s own actions, we find a profound, and

Introduction AI Prompt: What area of debate would Charlie Kirk and Dr. Adam O’Brien of the Wounded Healers Institute had? Data Based on the extensive research material, including the dissertation, blog posts, and external articles on Charlie Kirk, a debate between Charlie Kirk and Dr. Adam O’Brien of the Wounded Healers Institute would not be

Path of the Wounded Healer is already an evidence-based practice, based on the logic that 1 + 1 also =’s 3 (O’Brien, 2025). The Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) is not Dr. O’Brien’s alone is a crucial distinction. The model was co-created with Dr. Jamie Marich, founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness. Dr. Marich

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The Wounded Healers Institute fully complies with all local and New York State laws, and all federal regulations. We are a harm and risk reduction, recovery-based mindfulness healing (non-clinical) program, and an (re)education company.
We do not promote illegal activities or provide resources for obtaining illegal substances or illegal psychedelic psychotherapy services.
The Wounded Healers Institute does not sell THC cannabis for any aspect of our program, training or events, and it is not a retailer, supplier, manufacturer, reseller, distributor, agent, representative or subcontractor of THC cannabis supplier or retailer.
WHI is selling legally allowed to sell CBD now. Our healing services do not constitute medical care, physical therapy, and we do not diagnose or treat mental health. WHI is a wellness and recovery program.
What we do do is provide educational experiences, create positive memories of healing that allow participants to access to their own innate healing and creative process. WHI provides wellness programming, posttraumatic growth opportunities, and skills to build resiliency factors that allow our healing model. WHI employs the spiritual and developmental model of Addiction as Dissociation and uses The Path of the Wounded Healer as our unconscious guide. See our research HERE
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