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Australian psychologist

ISSN 0005-0067

2 papers in the library · publishing 2013-2018

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Should Australian Psychology Consider Enhancing Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Psychedelic Drugs? A Call for Research

Australian psychologist December 1, 2018 Stephen Bright, Martin L Williams

International research is increasingly demonstrating that psychedelic‐assisted psychotherapy can enhance psychotherapeutic outcomes and be effective for some treatment‐refractory mental illnesses; however, there is an absence of any such research in Australia. A review of psychedelic science has been conducted with a focus on psychedelic‐assisted psychotherapy to highlight the degree to which...

The Pursuit of Happiness and Its Relationship to the Meta-experience of Emotions and Culture.

Australian psychologist April 1, 2013 Stefan G Hofmann

In this commentary, I provide a brief background of the meta-experience of emotions, the philosophical and psychological literature on happiness, and further discuss the influence of culture on happiness. The meta-experience of emotions implies that there are primary and secondary emotions (i.e., emotions about emotions), similar to the concept of meta-cognitions. Primary and secondary emotions...