Drug and Alcohol Dependence
February 1, 2023
Conor H. Murray, Margaret Haney, Richard W Foltin et al.
Despite the high prevalence of polysubstance use, outcomes and potential risks associated with common drug combinations are not well characterized. Many individuals who use cocaine also use cannabis, yet little is known about how interactions between the two drugs might contribute to continued co-use. The aim of this double-blind, placebo-controlled study was to determine the physiological and...
European Neuropsychopharmacology
February 2023
Natalia Malikowska‐racia, Joanna Gołębiowska, Agnieszka Nikiforuk et al.
(S)-ketamine-induced rapid-acting antidepressant effects have revolutionized the pharmacotherapy of major depression; however, this medication also produces psychotomimetic effects such as timing distortion. While (R)-ketamine produces fewer dissociative effects, its antidepressant actions are less studied. Depression is associated with time overestimation (i.e., subjectively, time passes...
Nursing for women's health
February 1, 2023
Mary Ellen Doherty, Elizabeth Scannell-Desch
To describe the experiences of women who have had a close brush with death and the elements of posttraumatic growth as a result of their experiences. Using a theoretical framework of posttraumatic growth, we conducted a qualitative descriptive study with interviews of women who have had a close brush with death. Women were interviewed in the environment of their choosing: in their home, at a...
Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
February 1, 2023
Daniel J. Kruger, Jessica S Kruger
Introduction: Cannabis products containing delta-8-THC became widely available in most of the United States in late 2020 and rapidly became a significant source of revenue for hemp processing companies, especially in states where use of delta-9-THC remains illegal or requires professional authorization for medical use. Scientific research on the use of delta-8-THC is scarce, previous clinical...
Biological Psychiatry
February 1, 2023
Friederike Holze, Peter Gasser, Felix Müller et al.
294 citations
This study aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)-assisted therapy in patients who experienced anxiety with or without association with a life-threatening illness. The study is an investigator-initiated 2-center trial that used a double-blind, placebo-controlled, 2-period, random-order, crossover design with 2 sessions with either oral LSD (200 μg) or...
Routledge eBooks
January 31, 2023
Gideon Lev
Psychoanalysis used to hold a critical, reductive approach towards religion. Lately, however, one can find two other approaches: adaptive and transformative. An “adaptive” psychoanalytic approach to spirituality, described in this chapter, refers to the spiritual experience as any kind of human experience, which psychoanalysis can improve and intensify. Psychoanalysis, in this sense, is not...
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī
January 28, 2023
Aliasghar Bagheri, Mostafa Khorsandi Shirghan
This article used a descriptive-analytical method to investigate the introvertive and extrovertive mystical experiences of Baha Walad and Laozi, based on the views of Walter Stace. Both types of gnostic experience are found in Baha Walad’s experiences, referred to metaphorically as “taste”. In extrovertive gnostic experience, God is hidden in the instinct and the reality of hidden senses and...
The Mysticism of Ordinary Life
January 26, 2023
Andrew Prevot
Abstract This chapter offers a constructive feminist reading of mystical theological texts by an influential Catholic theologian of the twentieth century (Balthasar) and the lay contemplative woman who was central to much of his work (Speyr). It embraces feminist critiques of their gender essentialism and certain problematic aspects of their relationship, while proposing a feminist...
The Mysticism of Ordinary Life
January 26, 2023
Andrew Prevot
Abstract This chapter contrasts two postmodern philosophical approaches to the mysticism of ordinary life: one based on a phenomenological account of the inner experience of the flesh (Henry), the other informed by psychoanalytic, historiographic, and cultural-studies theories about the self’s relation to the other (Certeau). It argues that these interpretations of the immanence and alterity of...
The Mysticism of Ordinary Life
January 26, 2023
Andrew Prevot
Abstract This chapter clarifies the contributions of one of the most significant Catholic theological proponents of the mysticism of ordinary life. It discusses Rahner’s understanding of mysticism in relation to his account of the experience of uncreated grace and his retrieval of mystical sources from the Bible and early, medieval, and modern Christianity. It demonstrates that although he...