Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Current interest in the effectiveness of psychedelic-assisted recovery from trauma and other mental health conditions has been increasing. The Native American Church’s (NAC) use of the psychoactive plant peyote for over 100 years within sacred ritual has been a unique approach to religious expression and individual as well as collective healing, especially when addressing cultural trauma as well as individual experiences of PTSD, substance use, depression, and illness. Acceptance of the rite by some Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) at the turn of the 20th century is shown to be a form of both cultural resistance to settler colonial hegemony and a process of personal recovery from trauma.
DOI: 10.64074/4c3h8f90
Author: Michael Sersch
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7221531883