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March 16, 2026 Claudio Maddaloni
This chapter discusses different therapeutic approaches to mental distress, showing how the chosen method reflects underlying conceptions of mental disorder. Psychiatric treatment, based on medical training, focuses mainly on the biological aspects of illness. Diagnosis often follows classification systems such as the DSM-5, and intervention typically relies on anti-symptomatic medication....
March 16, 2026 Claudio Maddaloni
This chapter explores the nature and implications of psychiatric crisis from a critical and innovative perspective, moving beyond the tradition of mainstream psychiatry. The author begins with the clinical observation of the patient in crisis, emphasizing how the severity of the episode is often disproportionate to external events. Psychiatric crisis is portrayed as a radical rupture of...
March 16, 2026 Claudio Maddaloni
This chapter presents a radically renewed vision of psychiatry and psychology, based on the inclusion of the spiritual, energetic, and transformative dimensions of the human being. The author criticizes the technical-materialist drift of modern neuroscience, emphasizing how Western culture has relegated mystical and spiritual experience to exceptional or pathological phenomena, depriving the...
Frontiers in Pharmacology March 16, 2026 Alessandra Linardi, Ariadiny Lima Caetano, Rodrigo Portes Ureshino
psychiatric disorders, beta-carbolines, trace amine, phosphoproteomics, social hierarchy. Scientific interest in psychedelic substances has re-emerged, offering new perspectives on the treatment of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders.Historically, psychedelics have been associated with a wide spectrum of positive and negative effects, encompassing ritualistic and spiritual use,...
Integral Transpersonal Journal March 15, 2026 Martin James Peake
Transpersonal psychology concerns itself with experiences that transcend the individual ego and ordinary states of awareness. From this perspective, reported unidentified anomalous phenomena, (UAP) and psionic communication, whether spontaneous or cultivated, are understood phenomenologically, with emphasis placed on subjective meaning, transformative impact, and altered relationality to self,...
Addiction March 11, 2026 Christina Mcanulty, Nicolas Garel
Bloy et al. [1] provide an important and methodologically rigorous secondary analysis of the Ketamine for the reduction of Alcoholic Relapse (KARE) trial, examining whether acute psychoactive effects mediate the therapeutic impact of ketamine in alcohol use disorder (AUD). Their finding that dissociative and perceptual effects did not mediate abstinence outcomes is clinically relevant, and...
Frontiers in Psychology March 11, 2026 Filippo Dellanoce 1 citation
This article investigates the novel therapeutic approach of “amplified psychoanalysis” through a detailed examination of the Ygg case, which offers a descriptive single-case illustration of the integration of MDMA-assisted therapy with traditional psychoanalytic treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The study explores how subjective experience induced by MDMA can interact with an...
Scientific Reports March 10, 2026 Olympia Karampela, Aurelie Fontan, Lenita Lindgren et al.
How the brain generates conscious experiences remains profoundly mysterious. Pharmacological interventions that alter the state of consciousness have been proposed as a tool to investigate the neural mechanisms of consciousness. However, we have recently demonstrated that the sedative Propofol influences both conscious and unconscious neural processing. Altered arousal, and other...
Journal of Medical Ethics March 10, 2026 Chiara Caporuscio
The literature on psychedelic experiences often highlights their transformative potential. This raises ethical questions about informed consent in psychedelic-assisted therapy: if the altered state of consciousness induced by psychedelic drugs can profoundly alter a person's value system in ways that are epistemically inaccessible to them beforehand, it is unclear whether their informed consent...
PsyArXiv March 8, 2026 Oliver Andersson Hugemark, Vanessa Naughton, Karen Vasquez-Avila et al. preprint
Meditation research is increasingly moving beyond the study of health-related benefits toward the investigation of non-ordinary states of consciousness and ways of being that may arise through advanced meditative practice. Alongside potential benefits, however, intensive or advanced meditation has been associated with a higher incidence of meditation-related psychological adverse effects,...