A trip to save a life: psychedelics and the untraveled road to recovery
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is a burgeoning approach to managing mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, substance-use disorder, end-of-life anxiety, and treatment-resistant depression.This therapeutic approach is currently undergoing FDA-approved clinical trials in the United States and around the globe.The therapeutic practice involves the careful administration of a psychedelic-containing compound such as MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, and ketamine, in conjunction with more traditional psychotherapies, including mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy.In this thesis, I explore the shift in cultural and mental health narratives around psychedelic substances.This perceptual shift transforms significantly from their use in the 1960s, to their erasure and vilification in the 1970s, to their revival in the 2000s.I trace the historical integration of psychedelics in managing substance use disorders and also outline the controversies and conflicts with more traditional models like twelve-step programs.As psychedelic-assisted therapy shifts older structures in the medical management of addiction, I highlight that psychedelic-assisted-therapy in fact conserves many previous structures and bridges biomedical and spiritual methods in the management of addiction.By demonstrating how this new modality simultaneously displaces and conserves traditional approaches to managing addiction, the thesis argues that the introduction of psychedelic-assisted therapy elicits a paradigm shift in our cultural perspectives toward care and healing in contemporary mental health care.La thrapie assiste par les psychdliques est une approche en plein essor pour grer les troubles de sant mentale tels que le syndrome de stress post-traumatique, les troubles de consommation, l'anxit de fin de vie et la dpression rsistante au traitement.Cette approche thrapeutique fait actuellement l'objet d'essais cliniques approuvs par la FDA aux tats-Unis et travers le monde.La pratique thrapeutique implique l'administration prudente d'un compos psychdlique tel que la MDMA, les champignons de psilocybine, la LSD et la ktamine, en conjonction avec des psychothrapies plus traditionnelles, y compris la thrapie cognitivocomportementale et la pleine conscience.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".