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On the edge of the Peruvian forest, the Takiwasi center welcomes and treats drug addicts from all over the world. Combining psychotherapy and traditional Amazonian medicines, their method for treating addiction is unique. For nine months, patients live behind closed doors, learning how to create new meaningful social bonds with one another, while facing all aspects of themselves. Purging plants are used to detoxify the body and mind, whilevision plants, such as ayahuasca, allow for an immersion into the unconscious during which patients explore the complexities of memory and identity. In a setting where everything is ritualized, the center acts as a theater of physical and psychological transformations.