The Use of Psychedelics as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy

An overview

Authors

  • Jean Schulthess Watt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2024-2-53

Keywords:

history of psychedelics, psycholytic psychotherapy, neural plasticity, antidepressant, substance addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder

Abstract

After a hiatus in research into the application of psychedelics in the treatment of psychological disorders, there has been a form of renaissance since 1990s with treatment results proving safe and effective particularly when combined with psychotherapy.

Author Biography

Jean Schulthess Watt

Jean Schulthess Watt, MA, is a clinical Psychologist and state approved Swiss Psychotherapist. She is holding a Diploma in Analytical Psychology of the C. G. Jung Institute. She is working in private practice and teaching at the C. G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht/Zürich.
31275

Downloads

How to Cite

Schulthess Watt, J. (2024). The Use of Psychedelics as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy: An overview. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 14(2), 53–56. https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2024-2-53

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2024): Einsamkeit

Section

Original Work

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported License.

This journal provides open access to its content in accordance with the basic premise that the free public availability of research benefits the exchange of knowledge throughout the world.

Authors wishing to publish in this journal agree to the following:

  1. The author/s retain/s the copyrights and consent/s to initial publication of the work in the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, which allows third parties to use the work by citing the name/s of the author/s and this journal as initial publisher (in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 DE-Licence).
  1. The author/s can enter into additional contracts for the non-exclusive distribution (e.g. publish in a collection or book) of the version published in the journal, if the journal is cited as initial publisher.