Supple bodies, healthy minds: yoga, psychedelics and American mental health.
Lucas Richert, Matthew DeCloedt
Medical Humanities March 30, 2018 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011422 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Psychedelic-assisted therapy |
| Keywords | Mental health Yoga therapy Integrative medicine |
| Citations | 4 |
| Key points | Argues that mental health knowledge is shaped by politics, economics, and culture, and examines the relationship between yoga, psychedelics, South Asian and Eastern religion, and mental health in the USA. |
Abstract
Much discussion about mental health has revolved around treatment models. As interdisciplinary scholarship has shown, mental health knowledge, far from being a neutral product detached from the society that generated it, was shaped by politics, economics and culture. By drawing on case studies of yoga, religion and fitness, this article will examine the ways in which mental health practices-sometimes scientific, sometimes spiritual-have been conceived, debated and applied by researchers and the public. More specifically, it will interrogate the relationship between yoga, psychedelics, South Asian and Eastern religion (as understood and practiced in the USA) and mental health.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on psychedelic-assisted therapy, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theorizing that Psychedelic Assisted Therapy May Play a Role in the Treatment of Trauma-Induced Personality Disorders. | 2024 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Learning to Let Go: A Cognitive-Behavioral Model of How Psychedelic Therapy Promotes Acceptance | 2020 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Awe: a putative mechanism underlying the effects of classic psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy | 2018 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Ethical and legal issues in psychedelic harm reduction and integration therapy | 2021 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations. | 2022 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
Citations in the library
Cites 5
- LSD before Leary: Sidney Cohen's Critique of 1950s Psychedelic Drug Research Isis March 1, 1997
- Start Your Own Religion: New York State's Acid Churches Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions February 1, 2011
- A Working Paper: Memo on the Religious Implications of the Consciousness-Changing Drugs (LSD, Mescalin, Psilocybin) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 1964
- Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Transformation Tikkun July 6, 2016
- Psychedelics and Religious Experience 1968