Promoting well-being is one of the main goals to improve health in the world. We examined the well-being and quality of life over the course of one year in a sample that participated in an Indigenous Shipibo healing program where traditional healers work in a series of ayahuasca ceremonies. We also explored the role of decentering as a mediator of psychological well-being. Participants who...
Various conceptualizations of psychotic experience are evaluated on the basis of a year-long extra-therapeutic relationship between the author and a 15-year-old teen diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. Perspectives ranging from the clinician’s sign-based neo-Kraepelinian classification of ideational pathologies to the ethnographer’s hermeneutic interpretations of symptoms are considered,...