Clinical Psychologist

Reduced death anxiety and obsessive beliefs as mediators of the therapeutic effects of psychedelics on obsessive compulsive disorder symptomology

This survey (n=312) finds reduced OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) symptomatology for those who (recreationally) had a significant psychedelic experience (mystical experience; psychological insight). The study also found fewer obsessive beliefs and reduced death anxiety.

Published

July 27, 2022

Journal

Clinical Psychologist

Authors

Moreton, S. G., Burden-Hill, A., Menzies, R. E.