The influence of therapists’ first-hand experience with psychedelics on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy research and therapist training
| Autor: | Jeffrey Guss, Elizabeth M. Nielson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Psychedelic Studies. 2:64-73 |
| ISSN: | 2559-9283 |
| Popis: | Clinical research on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is rapidly advancing in the USA, with two drugs, psilocybin and MDMA, progressing through a structure of FDA-approved trials on a trajectory toward Drug Enforcement Agency rescheduling for therapeutic use. Researcher’s and clinician’s personal use of psychedelics was cited as a potential confound in psychedelic research studies conducted in the 1950s and 1960s, a concern which contributed to the cessation of this research for some 20 years. Currently, there is no empirical research on personal use of psychedelics by current academic researchers and clinicians; its influence is undocumented, unknown, and undertheorized. This paper explores the history of personal use of psychedelics by clinicians and researchers, the potential impact of personal use on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and research, and the rationale for opening an academic discussion and program of research to investigate the role of personal use. We propose that there are factors u... |
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