Antidepressant effects of a psychedelic experience in a large prospective naturalistic sample

VA Nygart, LM Pommerencke… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Over the last two decades, a number of studies have highlighted the potential
of psychedelic therapy. However, questions remain to what extend these results translate to …

Intersection of racism and PTSD: Assessment and treatment of racial stress and trauma

MT Williams, M Osman, S Gran-Ruaz… - Current Treatment Options …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Racial trauma is a severe psychological response to the
cumulative traumatic effect of racism. This review synthesizes emerging theoretical and …

Complex racial trauma: evidence, theory, assessment, and treatment

JM Cénat - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Racial trauma refers to experiences related to threats, prejudices, harm, shame, humiliation,
and guilt associated with various types of racial discrimination, either for direct victims or …

Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience

JM Peill, KE Trinci, H Kettner… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: As their name suggests,'psychedelic'(mind-revealing) compounds are thought
to catalyse processes of psychological insight; however, few satisfactory scales exist to …

Investigation of self-treatment with lysergic acid diethylamide and psilocybin mushrooms: Findings from the Global Drug Survey 2020

EI Kopra, JA Ferris, AR Winstock… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Growing numbers of people are using psychedelics for personal
psychotherapy outside clinical settings, but research on such use is scarce. Aims: This study …

Race and ethnicity moderate the associations between lifetime psychedelic use (MDMA and psilocybin) and psychological distress and suicidality

GM Jones, MK Nock - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Psychedelic compounds have been linked to salutary mental health outcomes in both
naturalistic and clinical settings; however, current research on psychedelics suffers from a …

Understanding the psychological impact of oppression using the trauma symptoms of discrimination scale

M Williams, M Osman, C Hyon - Chronic Stress, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Oppression refers to systemic discrimination where the injustice targets or disproportionately
impacts specific groups of people. The Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale (TSDS) is …

[HTML][HTML] The need for psychedelic-assisted therapy in the black community and the burdens of its provision

DT Smith, SC Faber, NCT Buchanan, D Foster… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Psychedelic medicine is an emerging field that examines entheogens, psychoactive
substances that produce non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC). 3, 4 …

Subtypes of the psychedelic experience have reproducible and predictable effects on depression and anxiety symptoms

A Nikolaidis, R Lancelotta, N Gukasyan… - Journal of affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Subjective experiences seem to play an important role in the enduring effects of
psychedelic experiences. Although the importance of the subjective experience on the …

Whitewashing psychedelics: racial equity in the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted mental health research and treatment

J Thrul, A Garcia-Romeu - Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Growing research on potential therapeutic applications of highly restricted Schedule I
hallucinogens, including the 'classic psychedelic' psilocybin, and the entactogen 3, 4 …