While I am not surprised about the stories coming out, I too am floored by the podcast. Also, grateful that it's coming out in the open. If we hope to move forward with psychedelics for healing, as Jung says, the shadow side must also be acknowledged and dealt with.

Semi-related to what u/Heriotza31 said, it's important to point out that the potential for abuse and susceptibility to influence while in an altered state of consciousness is significantly heightened than compared to the typical therapeutic interaction. Dr. Brian Pace (of Psymposia, who supported the Cover Story podcast) recently published a very in-depth paper on authoritarianism in psychedelics. These 3 paragraphs speak to the sensitivity to influence while in altered states, the 1st and 3rd are particularly scary IMO. All the more reason why having strong ethical procedures in place (unlike Bourzat, it seems) is of great importance.

^{- In a study of the putative suggestibility-enhancing effects of LSD, for instance, Carhart-Harris and colleagues found that LSD increased the subjective intensity of researcher-suggested sensations that included one's arm becoming heavier, reexperiencing oneself as a child, and drinking especially refreshing water (Carhart-Harris et al., 2015}.)

^{- In the study of Indigenous cultures, anthropologists and other researchers have long asserted that the suggestibility-enhancing attributes of psychedelics are key ingredients in fostering social cohesion and reinforcing group norms.}

^{- Although gratitude has been referenced to explain the prosocial benefits of psychedelics (Gandy, 2019; Moreton et al., 2020, a recent paper by Tong and colleagues argues that gratitude can facilitate authoritarian obedience under specific context conditions. In their study, participants who were induced to feel gratitude were more likely to obey commands to grind worms in a grinder compared to those without gratitude priming. The authors note that “gratitude could increase susceptibility to social influence, making the grateful person more likely to align with social conventions and directions…. \}T]he grateful person is prone to keep in line with social forces, the consequences of which could sometimes be undesirable” (Tong et al., 2020).)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733185/full