Psychedelic integration beyond the verbal: participatory-imaginal processing as a hypothesis-generating therapeutic framework
Frontiers in Psychiatry August 12, 2026 Anthony L. Back, Robert Bosnak
Psilocybin therapy in patients with cancer commonly produces vivid embodied and imaginal experiences that resist verbal description, yet most current integration approaches rely primarily on cognitive and verbal processing. We hypothesize that an approach to integration that directly engages this embodied register, without requiring translation into a verbal narrative, will enable patients to...