Psychedelics and mental health: reimagining care through science, insight, and compassion (Mikellides, et al, 2025)
"These substances are not stand-alone medications; rather, they function as adjuncts to intensive psychotherapeutic processes. Training therapists and establishing ethical, evidence-based protocols is essential."
Mindfulness, music, visual occlusion in ketamine therapy for depression: do they change outcomes? A qualitative and quantitative analysis of a randomized controlled trial (Kheirkhah, et al, 2025)
"...participants in the combined sensory intervention group reported deeper engagement, a stronger sense of connection to reality, increased focus on the experience..., moments of relief from sadness, and feelings of awe and spiritual insight compared to the control group. "
Ketamine Reduces Suicidality-Associated Emergency Department Utilization in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression: A 6-Month Mirror-Image Study (Patarroyo-Rodriguez, et al, 2025)
La ketamina reduce la utilización del departamento de emergencias asociada a la suicidabilidad en pacientes con depresión resistente al tratamiento: un estudio de imagen especular de 6 meses
Spotlight: Depression remission endures 5 years after psilocybin trial consisting of psilocybin with psychotherapy (2025)
"when it comes to reducing depression with psychedelic-assisted therapy, what matters even more than the drug is a strong relationship between the therapist and study participant."
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, psychedelic methodologies, and the impregnable value of the subjective—a new and evolving approach (Wolfson & Vaid, 2024)
"in a conducive set and settings, these experiences have been demonstrated to be of positive use in psychiatry and psychotherapy, providing a time-out from usual states of mind to facilitate a reshaping of self-experience along with symptomatic relief."
Spotlight: Ketamine-Occasioned Mystical Experience in Veterans with Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Retrospective Exploratory Analysis (Bhatt, et al, 2025)
Experiencia mística de la ketamina en veteranos con depresión resistente en tratamiento: un análisis exploratorio retrospectivo
