Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience
One of the most recent and potentially promising advancements in the health sciences has involved the attempted use of psychedelics for treating mental and behavioral health problems, such as anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and addiction. Despite surging scientific and public int...
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| description | One of the most recent and potentially promising advancements in the health sciences has involved the attempted use of psychedelics for treating mental and behavioral health problems, such as anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and addiction. Despite surging scientific and public interest in this work, however, we presently have no standard of care or consensus regarding how best to combine psychotherapy and psychedelics or to assess effectiveness. We discuss these timely issues here through the lens of behavioral psychedelics, which we define as the study of psychedelics to foster intentional changes in habits and behaviors to improve health and resilience. Psychedelics may have the potential to reduce chronic disease risk caused by mental and behavioral rigidity. To fully realize this potential, though, we believe the field must establish best practices and guidelines that include how to induce lasting changes in behavior. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d5c9206f888e4e46afb85589363e19962022-12-22T01:12:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402022-03-011310.3389/fpsyt.2022.821208821208Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and ResilienceEdmund C. Neuhaus0Edmund C. Neuhaus1George M. Slavich2Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, United Statesatai Life Sciences, San Diego, CA, United StatesDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesOne of the most recent and potentially promising advancements in the health sciences has involved the attempted use of psychedelics for treating mental and behavioral health problems, such as anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and addiction. Despite surging scientific and public interest in this work, however, we presently have no standard of care or consensus regarding how best to combine psychotherapy and psychedelics or to assess effectiveness. We discuss these timely issues here through the lens of behavioral psychedelics, which we define as the study of psychedelics to foster intentional changes in habits and behaviors to improve health and resilience. Psychedelics may have the potential to reduce chronic disease risk caused by mental and behavioral rigidity. To fully realize this potential, though, we believe the field must establish best practices and guidelines that include how to induce lasting changes in behavior.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.821208/fullpsychedelicspsychotherapyinterventiontreatmentguidelineschronic disease |
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| title | Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience |
| title_full | Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience |
| title_fullStr | Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience |
| title_short | Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience |
| title_sort | behavioral psychedelics integrating mind and behavior to improve health and resilience |
| topic | psychedelics psychotherapy intervention treatment guidelines chronic disease |
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