Positive psychology in the investigation of psychedelics and entactogens: A critical review.

CONCLUSIONS: There is preliminary evidence for beneficial effects of psychedelics and entactogens on measures of positive psychology in clinical and healthy populations, however their sustainability remains largely unresolved. The reported results must be considered preliminary due to methodological restrictions. Since longitudinal data on both positive and adverse effects of psychedelics are lacking, more rigorous and standardized measures from positive psychology should be applied in less biased populations with prospective longitudinal designs to carefully assess the benefit-risk-ratio.
PMID: 29964094 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neuropharmacology - June 29, 2018 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Jungaberle H, Thal S, Zeuch A, Rougemont-Bücking A, von Heyden M, Aicher H, Scheidegger M Tags: Neuropharmacology Source Type: research