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Psilocybin & OCD: Can Psychedelics Treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

By Rich Haridy — 2020

A new review from neuroethicist Eddie Jacobs, and published in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies, is suggesting psilocybin may have great potential as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Jacobs, from King’s College London and the University of Oxford, says it is surprising how little focus has been on the therapeutic potential of psilocybin in treating OCD, and he points to a number of new clinical trials that are finally exploring this promising treatment.

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DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences

From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. Government-approved and funded clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known.

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Rick Strassman
2001
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Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development

Psychedelics as therapeutic catalysts for emotional and spiritual transformation • Explores the latest medical research on the healing powers of entheogens • Reveals the crucial role of tribal and shamanic wisdom in psychedelic medicine • Provides guidelines for working with psychedelics,...

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Neal M. Goldsmith
2010
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Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion: An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Understanding Magic Mushrooms―From Tips and Trips to Microdosing and Psychedelic Therapy

Learn. Prepare. Trip. Transform! With so much misinformation surrounding magic mushrooms out there, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. This is where Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion comes in to help.

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Michelle Janikian
2019
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The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine

Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr. Tafur helps us to understand why. Too often, the Western medical approach fails to address the emotional dimension of illness.

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Joseph Tafur, Gabor Maté (foreword)
2017
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A Graham Hancock Reader: The Divine Spark—Psychedelics, Consciousness, and the Birth of Civilization

In this anthology edited by bestselling author Graham Hancock, 22 writers discuss psychedelics and their myriad connections to consciousness. Travel to South America, the American Southwest, outer space, inner space, and back in time to revisit Pahnke's The Good Friday experiment.

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Graham Hancock (editor)
2015
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Change Your Brain

This book tells the inside story of Leary's early LSD research at Harvard.

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Timothy Leary
2000
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Manifesting Minds: A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex, and Spirituality

Featuring essays and interviews with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass and others, this one-of-a-kind anthology published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), includes topics such as the healing use of marijuana and psychedelics for PTSD, anxiety, depression,...

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Rick Doblin (editor), Brad Burge (editor)
2014
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LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine

The sensationalism surrounding the widespread use of LSD in the late 60s and the subsequent legislative overkill virtually ended psychotherapeutic LSD research.

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Stanislav Grof, Albert Hofmann (introduction), Andrew Weil (foreword)
2008
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On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication

This book, by Charles T. Tart, world famous authority on altered states of consciousness, describes the results of a landmark study of 150 experienced marijuana users. What do they actually feel vs.

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Charles Tart
2001
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)