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order to make legible what these figures mean when they claim that psychedelics will revolutionize mental healthcare. As close readings of their public statements reveal, many leaders of the psychedelic medical industry express motivations that run
trivial they are not necessarily the primary targets we think of with ‘antidepressant’ treatment and do not necessarily align with patients’ primary motivations for seeking treatment. In this sense, medications that are sedating, or that increase appetite
positive symptoms (e.g., auditory hallucinations, disorganized thinking, delusions, abnormal motor behavior) and negative symptoms (e.g., diminished emotional expression, decreased motivation, decreased ability to experience pleasure, decreased ability to
at least pre-and post-measure. The majority (95%) came from Europe while the rest of the participants were from Asia (2.5%) and North America (2.5%). Their motivation for ayahuasca use included ‘understanding myself’ (34.2%), ‘solving issues’ (30
contested Letheby’s attribution of epistemic benefits to psychedelic states, suggesting that the benefits in question seem “more motivational than epistemic” (p. 250). However, he offers no explicit argument for this claim. He also suggests that any self
sessions with psilocybin (21–28 mg/70 kg) within a wider context of Motivational Enhancement Therapy led to significant increases in alcohol abstinence in problem drinkers, with results largely persisting to 36-week follow-up. MEQ scores (but also general
, 96 , 57 – 72 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09652140020016969 . 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2001.961575.x Kavenská , V. , & Simonová , H. ( 2015 ). Ayahuasca tourism: Participants in shamanic rituals and their personality styles, motivation, benefits and
the current literature that describes users' motivations and effects of microdosing, we find hints supporting the presence of a spiritual narrative in microdosing practice. For instance, Aronov (2019) describes the process through which eastern
key aspect of their usage ( Metzner, 1998 ). Of a range of different motivations behind psychedelic usage, approaching the experience with an emotional intent or with a spiritual motivation have been associated with greater likelihood of mystical
least one of the Purpose Freedom themes was N = 45, 22% of total coded responses. Three characteristics of this factor were notable. First, participants expressed motivation to make a conscious effort toward positive life changes and self
