Background Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) has demonstrated great promise for a variety of mental health problems. Many clinicians and researchers who are engaged in providing PAP report personal experiences with psychedelics; these experiences are often positive. Still, there are ongoing questions regarding the relevance of therapists personal experience with psychedelic drugs for the...
Psychedelic research is proceeding rapidly, despite ongoing legal and regulatory barriers and lingering questions about study design, such as the difficulty of ensuring adequate blinding, the relative overrepresentation in studies of participants who have previously used psychedelics, and the importance of personal experience with psychedelics for those who provide psychedelic-assisted therapy....