Mechanisms of therapeutic change after psychedelic treatment in OCD.
Psychiatry research June 1, 2024 Gayle Maloney, Terence Ching, Stephen A Kichuk et al. 3 citations
About 30-50% of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder do not respond to standard treatments. Recent pilot data suggest benefit from both psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy and imagery rescripting. Both interventions appear to allow reprocessing of negative emotions and core beliefs linked to past aversive events. The authors propose that basing psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy on an imagery rescripting framework may provide synergistic benefits in reducing symptoms, modifying core beliefs, and supporting value-based living.