Psychedelics: Hype or Hope?
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2022-06-26

There is no scientific evidence for the efficacy and effects imputed to psychedelics. Very few placebo-controlled clinical trials have been conducted and none of them showed promising results. Psychedelics may end up being another class of anti-depressants. 

Can psychedelics cure Narcissistic Personality Disorder? This claim is unmitigated nonsense. Narcissism is an all-pervasive, complex psychological condition that permeates and comprises every facet of the personality and all cognitions and affects, as well as moods and self-regulation. Narcissism is reactive to the environment (fluctuations in narcissistic supply and challenges to grandiosity), not to internal alterations in neurobiochemistry: the condition is exogenous, not endogenous.

ARTICLE MENTIONED

Domínguez‐Clavé, Elisabet, et al. "Ayahuasca may help to improve self‐compassion and self‐criticism capacities." Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental 37.1 (2022): e2807)

LITERATURE

Narcissists, Medication, and Chemical Imbalances http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/faq70.html

NEW SCIENTIST ARTICLES

Psychedelic medicine: the potential, the people, the politics, HEALTH, 18 August 2017, By Sean O'Neill

Brain scanning studies are usually too small to find reliable results, MIND | ANALYSIS 16 March 2022, By Clare Wilson

Psychedelic frees up depressed brain, study shows, By Philippa Roxby, Health reporter, 11 April 2022

Mind menders: how psychedelic drugs rebuild broken brains HEALTH, 22 November 2017 , updated 22 November 2017, By Sam Wong

Nobody can agree about antidepressants. Here’s what you need to know, HEALTH, 2 October 2018, By Clare Wilson

BMJ JOURNAL

Esketamine for treatment resistant depression
BMJ 2019; 366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5572 (Published 23 September 2019)Cite this as: BMJ 2019;366:l5572

Rupert McShane: A drug not a miracle—why we need a new system for monitoring ketamine, thebmjopinion, July 26, 2019 https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/07/26/rupert-mcshane-a-drug-not-a-miracle-why-we-need-a-new-system-for-monitoring-ketamine/

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