Möt gud och må bättre - en kvalitativ undersökning om psykedelikas effekter på välmående
(2022) PSYK11 20212Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- The research on psychedelics and their effects on well-being and as a treatment for mental illness is growing fast. The research has been mostly quantitative, but qualitative efforts are catching up. One qualitative meta-analysis synthesized four themes and their associated subthemes: (1) phenomenology of the experience; (2) perspectives on the intervention; (3) therapeutic processes and (4) outcomes of the intervention. This study aims to investigate if themes 3 and 4 were applicable on a type of data where today's research is scant: online trip-reports. We also investigated how these four themes might connect to future well-being. We designed a survey based on the WHO-5 well-being index to measure the participants perception of how their... (More)
- The research on psychedelics and their effects on well-being and as a treatment for mental illness is growing fast. The research has been mostly quantitative, but qualitative efforts are catching up. One qualitative meta-analysis synthesized four themes and their associated subthemes: (1) phenomenology of the experience; (2) perspectives on the intervention; (3) therapeutic processes and (4) outcomes of the intervention. This study aims to investigate if themes 3 and 4 were applicable on a type of data where today's research is scant: online trip-reports. We also investigated how these four themes might connect to future well-being. We designed a survey based on the WHO-5 well-being index to measure the participants perception of how their well-being was changed by their psychedelic trip. The survey was posted on online-forums discussing drugs. We collected four complete survey answers and another seven trip-reports from internet-forums discussing drugs, leaving us with a total of eleven trip-reports to analyze. The analysis was a deductive thematic analysis. The results showed that all the subthemes of themes 3 and 4 were represented in the trip-reports, and that three out of the four participants who completed the survey felt a clear increase in well-being as an effect of the psychedelic experience. These results indicate that the therapeutic processes and outcomes associated with psychedelics used in a clinical setting are shared with usage in a non-clinical setting. These findings might have societal implications in dealing with psychedelic self-medication. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Forskningen kring psykedelier och dess effekter på välmående och vid behandling av psykiska åkommor har under senare år ökat markant. Den kvantitativa forskningen har varit dominerande men den kvalitativa forskningen börjar komma ikapp. En kvalitativ meta-analys kom fram till fyra teman med tillhörande underteman: (1) upplevelsens fenomenologi; (2) perspektiv på behandlingen; (3) terapeutiska processer samt (4) behandlingens utfall. Vi ville undersöka om tema 3 och 4 var applicerbara på en typ av dataunderlag där forskningen idag är mycket knapphändig, tripprapporter på internet, samt huruvida dessa teman skulle ha någon koppling till framtida välmående. Vi konstruerade ett formulär baserat på WHO-5 välmående-index för att mäta deltagarnas... (More)
- Forskningen kring psykedelier och dess effekter på välmående och vid behandling av psykiska åkommor har under senare år ökat markant. Den kvantitativa forskningen har varit dominerande men den kvalitativa forskningen börjar komma ikapp. En kvalitativ meta-analys kom fram till fyra teman med tillhörande underteman: (1) upplevelsens fenomenologi; (2) perspektiv på behandlingen; (3) terapeutiska processer samt (4) behandlingens utfall. Vi ville undersöka om tema 3 och 4 var applicerbara på en typ av dataunderlag där forskningen idag är mycket knapphändig, tripprapporter på internet, samt huruvida dessa teman skulle ha någon koppling till framtida välmående. Vi konstruerade ett formulär baserat på WHO-5 välmående-index för att mäta deltagarnas uppfattning av hur deras välmående förändrats av deras psykedeliska upplevelse. Formuläret postades på internetforum som diskuterar droger. Vi fick in fyra fullständiga formulärsvar och sju ytterligare tripprapporter inhämtades för att totalt ha elva tripprapporter att analysera. Vi genomförde sedan en deduktiv tematisk analys av tripprapporterna. Resultaten visade att samtliga underteman ur tema 3 och 4 fanns representerade i de analyserade tripprapporterna, och att tre av de fyra deltagare som lämnat ett komplett formulärsvar uppfattade en tydlig ökning i välmående som en effekt av deras psykedeliska upplevelse. Dessa resultat indikerar att de terapeutiska processerna och utfallen associerade med psykedelier i kliniska sammanhang även återfinns vid användning utanför kliniska sammanhang. Dessa fynd kan ha samhälleliga implikationer vad gäller hantering av psykedelisk självmedicinering. (Less)
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- author
- Englund, Edvin LU and Zinkell, David
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- alternative title
- Meet god and feel better - a qualitative study about the effects of psychedelics on well-being
- course
- PSYK11 20212
- year
- 2022
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- M2 - Bachelor Degree
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- language
- Swedish
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- 9071641
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Möt gud och må bättre - en kvalitativ undersökning om psykedelikas effekter på välmående}},
year = {{2022}},
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