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Patients’ experience of the music, but not drug intensity, was predictive of reductions in depression 1 week later, suggesting that music plays a central mediating role in psychedelic therapy.These findings motivate greater appreciation of music as a key variable in psychedelic therapy and highlight the need for further research to better understand how music interacts with certain ...
Abstract. Rationale: Recent studies have supported the safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy for mood disorders and addiction. Music is considered an important component in the treatment model, but little empirical research has been done to examine the magnitude and nature of its therapeutic role. Objectives: The present study assessed the ...
- Mendel Kaelen, Bruna Giribaldi, Jordan Raine, Lisa Evans, Christopher Timmerman, Natalie Rodriguez, ...
- 2018
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- Interview data analysis: coding
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- Music experience predicts experience and therapy outcomes
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Rationale Recent studies have supported the safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy for mood disorders and addiction. Music is considered an important component in the treatment model, but little empirical research has been done to examine the magnitude and nature of its therapeutic role. Objectives The present study assessed the influence of mu...
Interviews were transcribed verbatim in Microsoft Word and checked for accuracy. A step-by-step coding analysis of the interview data followed. All coding was done by at least two researchers. This was initially done independently, and at later staged compared between researchers and integrated in a final coding for each transcript. All transcripts...
ing open to challenging experience evoked by the music, and B ^ that this felt like an important part of the therapeutic process. This included statements of accepting being deeply emotionally moved by the music and the music helping to face or B ^ Bconnect with the listener s Bunresolved ’ ^ inner conflicts. ^ Four out of seven (57% of cluster) de...
cluster) made statements about the music creating a sense of discomfort, including unpleasant or uncomfortable ex-
(loadings from audio/visual synaesthesia and elementary
As outlined above, notable polarities were observed in the music experience, such as the music being either liked or disliked, the music being either resonant or dissonant with the patients experience, and the patient being either open or ’ resistant to the influence of the music. These variables (liking, resonance, and openness) positively predict...
In this framework, the experience of resistance and dislike by the listener may be regarded as an important indicator for the therapist of musics failure to act therapeutically, and the ’ type of intervention needed to restore musics therapeutic ’ function may be determined by one central question the ther-apists may need to clarify, i.e. what is t...
This study has a number of limitations. First of all, the data was acquired without a placebocondition, making causal inferences about the nature of the effects problematic. Secondly, the main body of data used for this study was qualitative in nature. Therefore, the experiment did not allow studying the magnitude of the observed themes in the musi...
In patients with treatment-resistant depression treated with psilocybin, music was described as having a substantial influ-ence on their therapeutic experience, and selective correlations between the musicexperience and the occurrence of mystical experiences and insightfulness during sessions support this. Patients experience of the music, but not ...
- Mendel Kaelen, Bruna Giribaldi, Jordan Raine, Lisa Evans, Christopher Timmerman, Natalie Rodriguez, ...
- 2018
Aug 13, 2023 · Even in the absence of psychedelic enhancements, a few benefits derived from music alone are: Music influences mood through the release of dopamine—the feel-good rush. Even a few notes of a familiar song can trigger dopamine release. Emotional responses to unfamiliar music remain possible even after a brain injury.
The hidden therapist: evidence for a central role of music in psychedelic therapy. Psychedelic Research. Analyses of the interviews revealed that the music had both “welcome” and “unwelcome” influences on patients’ subjective experiences. Welcome influences included the evocation of personally meaningful and therapeutically useful ...
From the beginning of therapeutic research with psychedelics, music listening has been consistently used as a method to guide or support therapeutic experiences during the acute effects of psychedelic drugs. Recent findings point to the potential of music to support meaning-making, emotionality, and mental imagery after the administration of psychedelics, and suggest that music plays an ...
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Jun 3, 2024 · Music is deeply rooted in the human experience as well as a fundamental part of psychedelic-assisted therapies (PAT) and entheogenic ceremonies. Although a large body of research exists highlighting the importance of music from rehabilitative, psychological, neurobiological, anthropological, religious, and sociological contexts, there is limited scientific literature regarding the specific ...
