When Meaghan did psychedelic therapy she was gagged and pinned down by her therapists. With psychedelics touted as a miracle cure, she wants her story known.
The cameras are trained on a single bed in what looks to be a basement. There's a clock, a box of tissues and armchairs on either side of the bed.
By the second session she is asked to spread her legs. She shies away from the male therapist. She is later pinned down as she struggles against them. "When I was in the clinical trial, it was just this, like being told repeatedly that we were groundbreaking, we were making all these changes and this was going to be the next cure, the next thing for trauma, PTSD," Ms Buisson says."To posit complex emotion as something that can simply be excised by a pill … a drug like MDMA, that may have healing properties, but it can also be intensely traumatic," she says.
Dr Ross explains one of the issues is a lack of consistency in what the therapy used along with MDMA for treatment actually involves. Ms Buisson's therapists were Canadian psychiatrist Donna Dryer and her husband, Richard Yensen, an unlicensed therapist. "It was in that period that Richard Yensen began making sexual advances on Meaghan, which he told her were exposure therapy, because she had experienced sexual harm before and had been in the clinical trial to try to address some of that," Dr Ross says.
Dr Dryer and Mr Yensen did not respond to requests for comment. He has previously alleged through his lawyer that the relationship was consensual. In Ms Buisson's case, MAPS has given conflicting responses about what exactly was reviewed by the organisation at the time. An image from a video recording of Meaghan Buisson's MDMA therapy during clinical trials to treat PTSD, showing Dr Dryer and Mr Yensen in bed with her.
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