Psychedelic therapy is a research-based attempt to combine the use of psychedelic substances with psychotherapy in order to support a client towards therapeutic goals. Literature from the mid-twentieth century as well as more recent scholarship provides strong evidence of psychedelic therapy's ability to safely, rapidly, and effectively treat conditions including depressive disorders and...
Music is an essential component of psychedelic therapy. Music can help to structure the experience, elicit emotion, facilitate meaning-making, stimulate imagery, provide continuity, support peak experiences, and more. Clients who have positive experiences with music often demonstrate higher therapeutic outcomes during psychedelic therapy. Although music is ubiquitous during psychedelic therapy,...