Treatment with psychedelics is psychotherapy: beyond reductionism.

Treatment of psychiatric disorders with psychedelic substances represents one of the most promising current treatment approaches in psychiatry. Since its inception in the 1950s, therapy with psychedelics has been conceptualised as psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy-ie, a form of psychotherapy that uses the profound biological effects of this class of substances as a catalyst for changing thinking, emotions, and behaviour. In this view, the psychotherapy component of the treatment is considered as being of the utmost importance for both the safety and efficacy of the therapy.

[Are psychedelics fast acting antidepressant agents?].

Background: Psychedelics, such as psilocybin represent one of the most promising current therapeutic approaches in psychiatry.

Objective: Psychedelics seem to have not only potent antidepressant effects. Do they also work particularly quickly, i.