Photo EssayHow ketamine therapy helped me process the horrors of Oct. 7

‘Coming to’: Grappling with Oct. 7 during ketamine therapy

Illustration by Abby Horowitz

Photo EssayHow ketamine therapy helped me process the horrors of Oct. 7

‘Coming to’: Grappling with Oct. 7 during ketamine therapy

Abby Horowitz November 29, 2023

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Abby Horowitz is a fiction writer and essayist in upstate New York.

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