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Clare O'Callaghan

3 papers in the library · 9 citations · publishing 2025

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Stepping back into life: How Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy transforms the way of life of the terminally ill

General Hospital Psychiatry December 10, 2025 Justin Dwyer, Robert B. Johnston, Clare O'Callaghan et al. 3 citations

This qualitative study of how successful Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP) transforms the way of life of terminally ill subjects provides new knowledge for researchers and clinicians contemplating its use. Using an interpretive phenomenological approach (IPA) and interviews with subjects before and after PAP from a recent randomised control trial, we find that participants with extreme...

Health Care Workers' Attitudes Toward and Knowledge of the Clinical Application of Classic Psychedelics for People with Serious Illness: A Systematic Review.

Journal of Palliative Medicine June 1, 2025 Sam Barta, Joanne Brooker, Clare O'Callaghan 1 citation

Background: Recent research indicates that psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) may be a safe and effective treatment for several psychiatric disorders, including those experienced by people with serious physical illness. Understanding health care workers' (HCWs') attitudes and knowledge about the clinical application of psychedelics for patients with serious illness is important in progressing...

Music as a collaborating actor: new insights into the nature and role of music in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

Frontiers in Psychiatry 2025 Justin Dwyer, Robert B. Johnston, Clare O'Callaghan et al. 5 citations

Music has been identified as a central feature of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) and has hitherto been understood to amplify the psychedelic experience in a predictable way that has been codified into music recommendations and playlists. To re-evaluate the nature and role of music within the participant's world during psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Phenomenological analysis of...