Psychedelic therapy is psychotherapy - Max Wolff

Max Wolff's lecture "Psychedelic therapy is psychotherapy: connecting the dots between two fields that belong together" from the Psykedeelit 2023 conference held in Turku, Finland on November 23-24, 2023.
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"Follow Dr. Max Wolff, Head of Psychotherapy Training & Research at the MIND Foundation, through this talk, in which he argues that psychedelic therapy is a form of psychotherapy:
First, the therapeutic effects of psychedelic therapy are (at least to a substantial degree) mediated by therapeutic experiences.
Second, these experiences likely drive the same mechanisms of psychological change that are also active in other forms of psychotherapy. This second assumption is examined using an empirically based conceptualization of “common factors” that was introduced by the influential psychotherapy researcher Klaus Grawe. According to this model, the efficacy of all effective psychotherapies - and by implication also psychedelic therapy - is ultimately mediated by five general change mechanisms (GCMs): (1) resource activation, (2) problem actuation, (3) clarification, (4) mastery and (5) the therapeutic relationship.
Drawing connections between GCMs and various constructs used in current psychedelic research, and using illustrative patient reports from the EPIsoDE trial (testing psilocybin for depression), Dr. Wolff aims to clarify the value that researchers and clinicians working with psychedelics can derive from theories established by modern empirical psychotherapy research."
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