Social science research
September 2024
Upenieks Laura, Vaidyanathan Brandon
Recent scholarship has identified a growing mental health crisis among scientists and those in academia more generally. This study draws from nationally representative survey data collected from physicists and biologists working in four countries-the United Kingdom, the United States, India, and Italy (N = 3442)-and examines how religion/spirituality relates to their physical and mental...
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
September 1, 2024
Cindel J M White, Kathryn A Johnson, Behnam Mirbozorgi et al.
4 citations
Good fortune can be attributed to many sources, including other people, personal efforts, and various theistic and nontheistic supernatural forces (e.g., God, karma). Four studies (total N = 4,579) of religiously diverse samples from the United States and the United Kingdom investigated the distinct emotional reactions to recalled positive experiences attributed to natural and supernatural...
Neuroimage
September 1, 2024
Charlotte Martial, Andrea Piarulli, Olivia Gosseries et al.
10 citations
During fainting, disconnected consciousness may emerge in the form of dream-like experiences. Characterized by extra-ordinary and mystical features, these subjective experiences have been associated to near-death-like experiences (NDEs-like). We here aim to assess brain activity during syncope-induced disconnected consciousness by means of high-density EEG monitoring. Transient loss of...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
September 1, 2024
Simone Indius
3 citations
Building on Fircks (2023), who aims at integrating the theoretical and historical roots of mindfulness into psychology through a bridge between Taoism, relying on the polarity of life and wu wei (the principle of not-forcing) and Mead's Social Psychology, this commentary seeks to further explore how mindfulness, meditation and self-transcendence plays a role in the personal needs hierarchy of...
Journal of Fluency Disorders
September 1, 2024
Eric S. Jackson, Noam Goldway, Hope Gerlach-Houck et al.
4 citations
Stuttering poses challenges to social, occupational, and educational aspects of life. Traditional behavioral therapies can be helpful but effects are often limited. Pharmaceutical treatments have been explored but there are no FDA-approved treatments for stuttering. Interest has grown in the potential use of classic psychedelics, including psilocybin and LSD, which have shown effectiveness in...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
September 1, 2024
Ginny Hill
1 citation
C. G. Jung wrote very little about psychedelic drugs and he took a sceptical view of them. However, he was sufficiently impressed by Aldous Huxley's 1954 account of taking mescaline, The Doors of Perception, to invite Huxley to visit him in Switzerland. Huxley declined Jung's invitation but Huxley's collaborator Humphry Osmond met Jung instead. This paper documents Jung's contact with the...
Psychedelic Medicine
September 1, 2024
Crystal Lederhos Smith, Nathan Sackett, Brian Connor Stark et al.
4 citations
There is increasing interest in the use of psychedelics for therapeutic and recreational use. Research has been hindered by federal prohibition, put in place in 1970. Despite the regulatory difficulty, research has rapidly expanded in the past decade. Multiple states and cities have drafted their own policies regarding the use of psychedelics. Assuming interest in psychedelics continues to...
August 30, 2024
Mercedes Guaia Memita Guaia
Los psicodélicos generalmente provocan un cambio profundo en la conciencia, frecuentemente con disolución del ego, experiencias místicas y una percepción sensorial enriquecida, aunque son médicamente seguros para la mayoría de las personas. La taquifilaxia ocurre tras la administración repetida de psicodélicos, lo que impide la dependencia biológica. El MDMA puede tener cierto potencial de...
August 30, 2024
Psychedelics generally elicit a profound change in consciousness, often with ego dissolution, mystical experiences, and enriched sensory perception, but are medically safe for most. Tachyphylaxis occurs after repeated psychedelic administration, preventing biological dependence. MDMA may have some abuse potential and less tachyphylaxis compared to LSD/psilocybin. Psychedelics have 5-HT2B...
August 30, 2024
Psychedelics can induce mystical experiences, with higher Mystical Experience Questionnaire scores correlating with greater therapeutic effects like reduced cravings and anxiety. Psychedelics disrupt the default mode network, which is implicated in psychiatric conditions and sense of self, potentially reducing negative self-referential thinking. Psychedelics may disrupt the claustrum, inducing...