Facilitate integration of experience into behavioral change

The manuals converge on the idea that psychedelic sessions are not complete in themselves, but need a post-session phase that turns acute experience into longer-term change. Across the extracts, integration is described as linking insights, subjective effects, or session meanings to ongoing therapy, with a clear emphasis on reflection, consolidation, and translating experience into real-world behaviour. They also agree that this process should connect to concrete life domains. The sources repeatedly mention behaviour change, daily practices, habits, interpersonal behaviour, and, in the alcohol-focused manuals, reductions in heavy drinking, abstinence or reduced drinking, and broader alcohol-related therapeutic change. Several manuals also frame integration as tied to values, psychological flexibility, and future actions, rather than as reflection alone. The manuals differ in emphasis and framing. The psilocybin depression trial places more weight on ACT concepts, such as acceptance, defusion, self-transcendence, and values clarity, and explicitly includes termination and aftercare planning. The alcohol use disorder manuals focus more narrowly on substance use outcomes and remission, while the 5-MeO-DMT source is broader and more general, stressing meaning-making, self-improvement, inner peace, and integration into ongoing mental health care. The 2025 alcohol and depressive symptoms trial also stands out for its process detail, including free narration, a nonjudgmental and noninterpretive stance, and linking insights back to the patient’s original intentions.