Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) constitutes a novel treatment paradigm in mental health care practice that is currently being evaluated for its clinical efficacy and safety. Insight into the attitudes of clinicians toward PAP remains crucial for its successful integration into mental health care. This cross-sectional survey explores the attitudes of Dutch mental health care...
Epileptic DisordersJune 21, 2025Ionuț-Flavius Bratu, Nada El Youssef, Stanislas Lagarde et al.5 citations
Loss of consciousness/awareness during temporal lobe seizures significantly affects quality of life and is closely linked to pathological thalamocortical synchronization and loss of cortical signal complexity. The medial pulvinar nucleus (PUM) contributes to seizure propagation and awareness impairment, making it a potential target for neuromodulation. Acute high-frequency PUM stimulation has...
Preprints.orgJune 20, 2025Lida‐alkisti Xenaki, Nikos C. Stefanis
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Psychosis constitutes a profound alteration in the individual's relationship with the self and the world, expressed through symptoms signalized by loss of reality testing. Mainstream psychiatric approaches often rely heavily on descriptive psychopathology, which may overlook the multifaceted subjective experiences of affected individuals. This paper outlines an integrative framework to enhance...
Brain ResearchJune 19, 2025Zoé Dary, Paul Kobliska, Jacques Léonard et al.
The vestibular system plays a crucial role in body and self perception, as evidenced by the effects of artificial vestibular stimulation in healthy individuals and the depersonalization-like symptoms observed in patients with otoneurological disorders. However, its role in the bodily self-an immediate and pre-reflective form of self-consciousness-remains relatively unexplored. This study...
BRILL eBooksJune 16, 2025Stacy B. Schaefer1 citation
This chapter focuses on the healing practices of Wixárika mara’akate who use the power of peyote for restoring equilibrium and good health for themselves and their patients. The natural history of peyote and the dynamic liaison that exist between this entheogenic cactus and humans illustrates peyote’s central place in contemporary Wixárika culture. The specialist training that a mara’akame...
This chapter describes the traditions, training, alterations of consciousness, healing ritual, and ethnomedical ideologies of Cannabis sativa, which is the oldest, most widely used, yet least considered plant teacher of the psychedelic renaissance. After briefly summarizing the recent literature about the deeply intertwined histories of Cannabis sativa and its intimate relationship with human...
Ibogaine, derived from the Iboga (Tabernanthe iboga), a shrub of central Africa, has a history of medical and entheogenic ritual use. Its modern use followed the serendipitous discovery, among heroin users in 1962, that it interrupted heroin addiction. Efforts to engage the scientific community in the clinical science of ibogaine had limited success but led to an underground treatment movement...
Entheogenic healing rituals have emerged recently decades in the Western world using a psychoactive secretion from a tree frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) called Kambo. Kambo use originated as an Amazonian hunting ritual but became internationalized as a spiritual healing practice in a “vaccination” involving application of the frog secretion of a frog through the skin via a heat-induced blister....
Rastafari is a Pan-African spiritual, socio-political, and ecological movement that uses the Herb (Cannabis spp.) as an entheogenic agent for decolonizing consciousness to promote well-being. The movement counters the centuries of injustice and oppression perpetrated through the trans-Atlantic slave trade with a power derived from links to African livity, a core spiritual lifestyle that...
This chapter examines the use of psilocybin mushrooms (known as teonanacatl or “the flesh of gods”) and Mexican tarragon (yauhtli, Tagetes lucida) for therapeutic purposes in Nahua medicine. These entheogenic substances are associated with thunderbolt and rain deities, part of a symbolic complex known as “the healing of the thunderbolt,” reflecting the influence of Tlaloc, the god of rain and...