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The dictionary of change
Psychedelics may be the oldest class of pharmacological agents known to man that was neglected in the last fifty years. Are you ready for the psychedelic-assisted therapy renaissance? The FDA did not yet approve hallucinogens for treating mood disorders, but a broader acceptance is soon expected. Clinical and recreational use of psychedelics is not at all the same. Clinical use equates quality of the drugs, clinical monitoring, and the therapeutic paradigm. There is a need to train not only psychologists, psychiatrists but also nurses to understand the medical language of psychedelics.
According to a recent publication in the American Journal of Nursing, the field needs to anticipate and prepare for future patients. Let us take a look at the appropriate language to adopt.
Psychedelics are diverse substances that exert a wide range of neurochemical, neuromodulatory, and hemodynamic effects on the brain and body. In 1967 the term psychotomimetics was used; a pejorative term is suggesting psychosis. Later, psychedelics induced state was thought to be different from psychosis or mental illness; the word “hallucinogenics” was introduced. Thus, the most accurate would be to describe psychedelics as substances with mind-manifesting capability, revealing useful or beneficial properties of the mind, as the initial researchers from…
