J Eat Disord
September 2, 2025
Elena Koning, Riccardo Miceli Mcmillan, Aaron Keshen et al.
3 citations
Why psychedelic-assisted therapy studies in eating disorders risk missing the mark on outcomes: a phenomenological psychopathology perspective.
Philosophical Psychology
November 25, 2024
Riccardo Miceli Mcmillan, Jack Reynolds, Anthony Vincent Fernandez
3 citations
Current evidence suggests that the efficacy of psychedelic therapy depends, in part, on the character of psychedelic experiences themselves. One pronounced aspect of psychedelic experiences is alterations to the experience of time, including reports of timelessness or transcending time. However, how we should interpret such reports remains unclear, and this lack of clarity has philosophical and...
Aust N Z J Psychiatry
November 5, 2023
Riccardo Miceli Mcmillan, Anthony Vincent Fernandez
2 citations
Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding 'Understanding subjective experience in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: The need for phenomenology'.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
November 17, 2022
Riccardo Miceli Mcmillan, Anthony Vincent Fernandez
30 citations
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is being investigated as a treatment for a range of psychiatric illnesses. Current research suggests that the kinds of subjective experiences induced by psychedelic compounds play key roles in producing therapeutic outcomes. To date, most knowledge of therapeutic psychedelic experiences are derived from psychometric assessments with scales such as the Mystical...
Front Psychol
April 28, 2021
Christopher Gutland, Wenjing Cai, Anthony Vincent Fernandez
2 citations
Editorial: Integrating Philosophical and Scientific Approaches in Consciousness Research.
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
February 16, 2021
Allan Køster, Anthony Vincent Fernandez
106 citations
Abstract In this article, we develop a new approach to integrating philosophical phenomenology with qualitative research. The approach uses phenomenology’s concepts, namely existentials, rather than methods such as the epoché or reductions. We here introduce the approach to both philosophers and qualitative researchers, as we believe that these studies are best conducted through...