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Spotlight: The Role of Psychedelics in Contemporary Psychological and Interdisciplinary Inquiry (Soylemez, et al, 2025)

"These compounds have been shown to enable access to unconscious cognitive and emotional content, facilitate emotional release, and induce a temporary dissolution of ego boundaries—processes that may underpin significant and enduring therapeutic outcomes."
Michael DeMarco, PhD

by Michael DeMarco, PhD

(2025):"Integration, which is the process of making sense of and incorporating insights from the psychedelic experience, is essential for lasting therapeutic benefit [42]. Without integration, the profound realizations and emotional breakthroughs may fade or become confusing. Therapeutic models increasingly emphasize preparation and post-session integration as critical components of psychedelic therapy [43]. Integration may involve psychotherapy, journaling, mindfulness practices, or community support, all aimed at reinforcing positive changes and addressing any lingering challenges."

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Moderating factors in psilocybin-assisted treatment affecting mood and personality: A naturalistic, open-label investigation (Irrmischer, et al, 2025)

"Findings indicate that individual psilocybin-assisted therapy has the potential for beneficial effects on mood and personality characteristics. Moreover, the study highlights the importance of subjective experiences and demographic factors in moderating this effect."

Intravenous ketamine versus esketamine for depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Elmosalamy, et al, 2025)

"Based on the currently available comparative evidence, which is almost entirely observational, IV ketamine and IN esketamine show comparable acute response and remission rates, though IV ketamine may act faster."

Unfolding States of Mind: A Dissociative-Psychedelic Model of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in Palliative Care (Gonçalves Campolina & Tuena de Oliveira, 2025)

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The Role of Psychedelics in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: An Overview of Systematic Reviews (Correa de Costa, et al, 2025)

"...evidence suggests that the use of serotonergic and non-serotonergic psychedelics (ketamine) for the treatment of SUD may provide advantages over traditional therapeutics, and these compounds may eventually become part of the next generation of treatments for SUD under specific circumstances."

Spotlight: A long, strange trip: Ketamine treatment in psychiatry (Nutt, et al, 2025)

"...mystical experiences were strongly related to immediate and sustained psychiatric benefits at the group level and on an individual, session-by-session basis across the six doses, providing mechanistic support for ketamine-psychotherapy pairings."

Spotlight: Changing your mind: neuroplastic mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effect of psychedelics in depression, PTSD, and addiction (Palhas, et al, 2025)

"Serotonergic psychedelics & ketamine appear to share common cellular mechanisms. They both recruit glutamatergic neurons to stimulate BDNF-trKB signaling, promoting synaptogenesis via the mTOR pathway. These changes may explain their efficacy in depression, anxiety, PTSD, & addiction."
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