What are Psychedelics?

Psychedelics in the context of therapy are very different from our current medical paradigm.

These substances are not intended, at least in the research context right now, to be taken on a regular basis but instead to be taken on just a few occasions. So, there's a real flip as far as how we think about things in biological psychiatry versus how we think about psychedelic-assisted therapies.

Video: What are Psychedelics?

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In this video, Dr. Devon Christie explores the origin of the meaning psychedelics and why this word has been selected to represent this broad class of medicines.

References

Carhart-Harris, R. (2013). Psychedelic drugs, magical thinking, and psychosis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 84(e1).