Jonathan Shedler

Psychedelics assisting therapy, or therapy assisting psychedelics? The importance of psychotherapy in psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Frontiers in Psychology February 5, 2025 Joseph A. Zamaria, Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold, Jonathan Shedler et al. 21 citations

There is notable controversy about the role of psychotherapy in clinical trials of psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT). This heated and perpetually evolving debate informs questions such as how much therapy should accompany a psychedelic intervention (Marseille et al. , 2022), what type of therapy most effectively complements psychedelic administration (Cavarra et al. , 2022;Yaden et al. ,...