International Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy
August 30, 2026
Muaddyl Akhyar, Muhammad Afif Al Faruq, Damarkunsi Majasius
Background: The escalating prevalence of psychological disorders highlights the limitations of conventional psychotherapy in addressing existential distress and spiritual alienation, creating an urgent need for an integrative psychospiritual framework. Objective: This study aims to examine self-efficacy as a core psychospiritual mechanism within Sufi psychotherapy based on the Tazkiyat al-Nafs...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
August 28, 2026
Krishna Hanubal, Akul Munjal, Jino Park et al.
PurposeDespite most psychedelic substances remaining Schedule I, clinical research exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) in oncology is expanding. We sought to assess oncology providers' attitudes toward and understanding of PAT.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey of healthcare professionals involved in oncology across five academic institutions in California, South Carolina,...
Journal of Psychology and Social Sciences
August 25, 2026
D. Anuroopa, G Uma
Mental health disorders have emerged as a profound global public health challenge, with escalating rates of anxiety, depression, professional burnout, loneliness, and emotional distress underscoring the necessity for holistic and culturally responsive therapeutic paradigms. The Indian Knowledge System (IKS) presents a comprehensive civilizational framework that conceptualizes human well-being...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 21, 2026
Ivan Temprado-Ordiaz
preprint
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has emerged as a promising therapeutic candidate for treatment-resistant neuropathic pain, offering a paradigm shift from transient palliative symptom masking toward disease-modifying neuroplastic reorganization. Preclinical and clinical evidence demonstrates that MDMA operates through an integrated, multi-tiered neurobiological cascade: presynaptic...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 6, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
Psychological literatures on coping, emotion regulation, and contemplative practice have generated a large inventory of techniques for responding to distress, but comparatively little theory about how a person should choose among them. The dominant question has been which technique works; the neglected question is which response is appropriate to this disturbance, at this stage of its...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
August 6, 2026
Maria Laura Mele, Stefano Federici
IntroductionPsychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) is an emerging complex intervention for psychiatric and existential conditions (i.e., forms of distress related to meaning, mortality, and identity, such as that arising in life-threatening illness); however, a systematic characterization of the evaluation methods used across the entire clinical intervention remains incomplete. This scoping review...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 2, 2026
MD Hredoy Mesha
preprint
গবেষণার প্রেক্ষাপট ও লক্ষ্য: মৃত্যুপূর্ব সচেতনতা ও আচরণগত পরিবর্তন বিষয়ক বিদ্যমান গবেষণার বিশাল অংশ পাশ্চাত্য দেশের হাসপাতাল ও হসপিস প্রেক্ষাপটে সীমাবদ্ধ। বিদ্যমান একাডেমিক গবেষণার পর্যালোচনা অনুযায়ী, বাংলাদেশের ধর্মীয় ও সামাজিক প্রেক্ষাপটে এই বিষয়ে কোনো গুণগত গবেষণা এখন পর্যন্ত প্রকাশিত হয়নি। এই গবেষণার লক্ষ্য হলো বাংলাদেশের সামাজিক ও ধর্মীয় প্রেক্ষাপটে মৃত্যুপূর্ব সচেতনতা কীভাবে প্রকাশ...
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
August 1, 2026
Paul Noufi, Joshua B Borris, Danielle Chammas et al.
Patients with serious illnesses and short prognoses often experience depression and suicidal ideation. Traditional antidepressants are limited by delayed onset, creating a need for rapidly acting therapies. In this Palliative Care Rounds, we examine the evidence for ketamine/esketamine's efficacy as antidepressants, including evidence specific to people with serious illnesses. In psychiatric...
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology
July 30, 2026
Ni Wayan Jemiwi Jero, Masatoshi Torii, Jimmy Susanto et al.
Background: Insomnia is conventionally framed as a clinical and epidemiological burden, yet emerging psychological literature suggests sleep disruption is entangled with death anxiety and mortality salience, where nighttime wakefulness is when the mind's habitual defenses against death-awareness weaken, surfacing existential distress that manifests physiologically as hyperarousal. In Indonesia,...
Mindfulness
July 29, 2026
Chloe Wells, William van Gordon, Paul Barrows
A cancer diagnosis often triggers profound psychological distress and existential uncertainty. While first-generation mindfulness-based interventions are widely utilised, research on second-generation mindfulness-based interventions (SG-MBIs), such as Meditation Awareness Training (MAT), remains limited in oncology. MAT integrates traditional contemplative practices, including compassion,...