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Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Chemical synthesis and alkaloids Affect (linguistics)

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Being no one, being One: The role of ego-dissolution and connectedness in the therapeutic effects of psychedelic experience

Ada Kałużna, Marco Schlosser, Emily Gulliksen Craste, Jack Stroud, James Aaron Cooke
Journal of Psychedelic Studies Summary & key facts 2022 40 citations

Researchers reviewed 15 studies involving about 2,200 people to see how two kinds of psychedelic experiences — losing the sense of a separate self (called ego-dissolution) and feeling more connected to others and the world (called connectedness) — relate to therapeutic change. They found both experiences are linked to a…

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