Recalled childhood trauma and post-psychedelic trajectories of change in a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT: This mixed-methods study examines how participant-identified childhood or youth trauma resurfaces during psychedelic states and how such episodes relate to post-experience trajectories. Including events participants identified as traumatic during psychedelic experiences, and subsequent psychological outcomes, both positive and negative. While psychedelics can facilitate emotional processing of autobiographical material, a minority experience adverse effects or re-traumatization when trauma resurfaces. Phase 1 surveyed 608 individuals who experienced post-psychedelic difficulties lasting beyond acute effects. Those who reported that their post-psychedelic difficulties seemed to be related to early trauma (41.8%) were significantly older, more often female, were more likely to report a prior

SUBMITTER: Simon G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12669718 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature