Prolonged adverse effects from repeated psilocybin use in an underground psychedelic therapy training program: a case report
BMC Psychiatry February 28, 2025 John Perna, Justin Trop, Roman Palitsky et al. 15 citations
A case report describes tensions between legal and underground psychedelic use within therapy training programs, psychiatry, and neo-shamanism. It details how psychiatric interventions like electroconvulsive therapy and energy medicine were used to address prolonged adverse effects from psychedelics. The report urges clinicians to recognize conflicts between psychiatric views of these adverse effects and frameworks in psychedelic communities, which can affect patients' symptoms, decisions, and emotional struggles.