What Is Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy? Here’s Everything You Need to Know
The three stages of the therapy are much more thorough than simply taking a high dose of psychedelics.
To treat their patients, a number of therapists are turning to psychedelics. But what is psychedelic-assisted therapy and how does it work?
Therapists do not simply hand over a bowl of psilocybin mushrooms to their patients and wait for them to work their magic. To say that it is ‘just’ the drugs that are having an effect is a misconception.
Rather, therapists employ psychedelic-assisted therapy, a multifaceted therapeutic tool, comprising three main stages that work synergistically to deliver a powerful way to change the mind.
What is Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy? A Brief History
Psychedelic-assisted therapy entails using a high dose of a psychedelic substance to treat a mental health issue. In the Western world, psychedelic-assisted therapy made an indelible imprint in the field of psychiatry in the ’50s and ’60s. The discovery of LSD by Albert Hoffman in 1938 propelled psychedelic substances to become readily accessible in the West.
