Combining Psychedelic and Mindfulness Interventions: Synergies to Inform Clinical Practice.

ABSTRACT: Psychedelic and mindfulness interventions have been shown to improve mental ill-health and wellbeing, with a range of clinical processes and effects in common. However, each appear to contain specific challenges in the context of mental health treatment. In this Perspective, we focus on a set of distinct affordances, "useful differences", within psychedelic and mindfulness interventions that might address common challenges within the other intervention. Accordingly, we propose a set of applied synergies, indicating specific ways in which these two promising interventions might be combined for greater benefit. Metaphorically, on the journey toward mental health and wellbeing, we propose that psychedelic treatments may serve the role of Compass (initiating, motivating, and steering the cours

SUBMITTER: Payne JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8033772 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature