Folk healing remains a significant component of health-seeking behavior in many Filipino communities, where spiritual beliefs, cultural traditions, and social relationships shape perception of illness and recovery anchored in Madeleine Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing Theory and Health Belief Model, which explains how beliefs influence health-related decisions, this study explored the lived...
Objective: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) has positioned itself against medically controlled patient access (at this current time) to 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and psilocybin-assisted therapies in its Therapeutic Use of Psychedelic Substances Clinical Memorandum, May 2020. The main reason given by the RANZCP for its stance is safety...