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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Psychedelic"”.
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The phenomenology of psychedelic experiences
… into the clinical and therapeutic application of psychedelic drugs has shown great promise in treating a wide range of psychiatric conditions. While there is an ever-expanding literature concerning empirical questions about these drugs and the experiences which they engender, it is only in recent …
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Motives and Meanings in Psychedelic Use
… outcomes in ketamine treatment and naturalistic psychedelic use: acute subjective experience and user motivation. Study 1 synthesised qualitative evidence on the acute experience of ketamine treatment for mental health problems. A systematic review of MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Embase identified …
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Flashback : the return of psychedelic medicine
In the 1960's, psychedelic drugs were a part of not only popular culture, but also cuttingedge psychology research. Scientists were studying these drugs in the hope of understanding and treating various psychological and societal ills; but as psychedelics got caught up in the counter-culture, they …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
Psychedelics can enable a broad and paradoxical spectrum of linguistic phenomena from the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera. Interior dialogues with the Other, whether framed as the voice of the Logos, an alien download, or communion with …
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Psychedelic music in San Francisco : style, context, and evolution
Psychedelic rock began in 1965 and was popular until around 1970. Its most important centres were San Francisco, the city of its origin, and London. One of its chief features was the attempt to translate into musical terms the effects of hallucinogenic drugs, especially LSD, which had become …
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Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data
… My argument is that human medical research on psychedelic substances supports a critique of what I call "the data episteme." I use "episteme" in the sense developed by philosopher Michel Foucault, where the term describes an apparatus for determining the properties associated with the epistemic …
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Amplifying Participants’ Perspectives of Beneficial Psychedelic Facilitation to Shape Future Practice
Understanding beneficial psychedelic facilitation requires unique inquiry methods due to the contextualized nature of psychedelic experiences. This study explored participants’ perspectives on beneficial psychedelic facilitation to inform organizational best practices at Ambio Life Sciences using …
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Integrating the ineffable: a social phenomenological analysis of the psychedelic experience
There has been a renewed and growing interest in psychedelic drugs in the 21st century. Drawing on social-phenomenology, cognitive sociology, and ‘set and setting’ theory, I delineate how individuals use socially defined frameworks of understanding to attribute meaning to psychedelic experiences. …
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Cheaper Than A Funeral: Considering Ibogaine’s Psychedelic Journey and Therapeutic Potential
The past decade has seen a surge of interest in psychedelic compounds as therapeutic medicine. Ibogaine, an indole alkaloid extracted exclusively from an endangered family of shrubs from Central African nations of Gabon and Cameroon, is a psychedelic currently being studied for its unique …
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Spirituality in the Laboratory: Negotiating the politics of knowledge in the psychedelic sciences
In this study I argue that psychedelic substances served as a doorway through which spirituality entered the scientific laboratory to an unprecedented degree given their traditionally demarcated relationship by making spirituality more amenable to scientific paradigms and accessible to scientific …
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Psychedelic Use and Psychological Flexibility: The Role of Decentering, Mystical Experiences, Ego-Dissolution, and Insight
… flexibility (PF) and characteristics of the psychedelic experience: self-perceived meaningful intention, feelings of comfort and safety, decentering, mystical experiences, ego-dissolution, and insight. The first hypothesis was that perceived meaningful intention and feelings of comfort/safety …
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Essays on hospital-level economic outcomes : evidence from psychedelic decriminalization and health system data breaches.
… essays. Essay 1 exploits staggered city-wide psychedelic decriminalization (2019-2022) using difference-in-differences methods, finding a 25 percent rise—about 33 extra cases per month—in psychosis-related emergency visits. Essay 2 links those policies to inpatient trajectories: …
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Navigating the pluripotency of psychedelic experience: Learning from the challenges of destabilisation, towards the possibility of ontological transfiguration
Psychedelic experiences disrupt ordinary perception and can reveal that the reality we inhabit, and the self we take ourselves to be, are sustained by tacit assumptions that can dissolve. This dissolution is pluripotent and can be destabilising: the loosening of ontological foundations can catalyse …
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Culture is not your friend: Psychedelic literature of the 20th century and its subversive effect in an industrial world
… to the peculiar effects of what is now called “psychedelic drugs.” Although many of these substances had been well known outside the Western world, often for thousands of years, they were completely novel to their new-found societies. The influence of psychedelics on the hippie generations of …
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Psychedelics and Religious Insight: A Precedent in American Psycho-Spirituality from William James to Timothy Leary
… relationship between the texts one reads and the psychedelic experiences one may have. Reading texts has an effect on set and setting with respect to psychedelic experiences. Further, texts read—by figures like Timothy Leary—in the afterglow of a psychedelic experience can influence later …
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Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
… century, my aim is to show how works displaying psychedelic aesthetics are important venues for political deliberation with regard to citizenship. Through affective means, psychedelic aesthetics reimagine the boundaries of liberal subjectivity through a consciousness expansion <em>and return from …
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THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS: A MULTIMODAL NEUROIMAGING AND COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHEDELIC TRYPTAMINES AND MDMA ON HUMAN BRAIN DYNAMICS
Psychedelic and entactogenic drugs, once prohibited, are now being decriminalized at the local level and are poised to soon be regulated as medicines by the FDA. With nearly 100 pharmaceutical and biotech companies developing novel therapeutics from these compounds, it is essential to understand …
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Where Does it Stem From? - Functional Neuroimaging of Monoaminergic Brainstem Nuclei in Altered States of Consciousness: Translational, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
… dopaminergic dysfunction. Chapter IV focussed on psychedelic ASCs, which are elicited by serotonergic psychedelic drugs, such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). I found that serotonergic raphe nuclei connectivity is powerfully disrupted in acute LSD administrations – strikingly once more to the …
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Ready, Set, Action: Potential Breakthrough Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression
… determining which characteristics of a patient’s psychedelic experience or “trip” is associated with the decrease in their depressive symptoms. The results of this project demonstrated that an initial low dose of ketamine was significantly quick and efficacious in decreasing depressive symptoms in …
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