Stepping back into life: How Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy transforms the way of life of the terminally ill
General Hospital Psychiatry December 10, 2025 Justin Dwyer, Robert B. Johnston, Clare O'Callaghan et al. 3 citations
Terminally ill people with extreme death anxiety can feel displaced from their own lives, afraid and alone in an all-encompassing present. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) can enable them to fully inhabit their life in a more abundant and joyful present, even in the face of death. The psilocybin component is necessary but not sufficient for this outcome. These findings expand the conceptualization of death anxiety and the personal transformation that constitutes successful PAP.