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Brazilian Psychedelic Science and the Frontiers of Psychiatry

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The use of psychedelic substances has intrigued, benefited, and challenged humanity for millennia. These substances, found regularly in nature, are known to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness. They provide heightened sensory, emotional and cognitive experiences, which include augmented visual imagery, changes in thought, mood, and awareness, perception of space-time and reality and, in many cases, profound insights, and mystical experiences. Throughout history, many indigenous populations around the world developed the use of these substances, especially as a vital component of healing. From the Amazon, for example, Ayahuasca emerged, a drink made from the combination of two plants, used ancestrally by shamans to promote physical and psychological healing. Likewise, indigenous populations in North America, such as the Navajo, retain the ancestral use of the peyote cactus as sacred medicine, while indigenous populations such as the Mazatecs of Mexico used psilocybin-containing mushrooms in their healing rituals

Source: Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria

DOI: 10.1590/0047-2085-2023-0087

Authors: Dráulio Barros de Araújo, Tiago Arruda Sanchez, Sidarta Ribeiro

Institutions: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

Language: English

Topic: Psychedelics and Drug Studies

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4403607589

FWCI: 0.477

Cites: 4

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10