Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) is a burgeoning treatment with growing interest across a variety of settings and disciplines. Empirical evidence supports PAT as a novel therapeutic approach that provides safe and effective treatment for people suffering from a variety of diagnoses, including treatment-resistant depression, substance use disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Within...
As palliative care providers, we are expected to expertly address psychological and spiritual distress among our patients. Left unchecked, existential suffering threatens to exacerbate symptom burden and limit therapeutic potential. Tending to the psychospiritual domains of a person’s experience is thus as fundamental to our roles as healers as is familiarity with equianalgesic charts and bowel...