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Perceived attachment history predicts psychedelic experiences: A naturalistic study
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Personality, Social and Developmental Psychology. Reichman University (IDC Herzliya), Israel.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9114-4290
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Personality, Social and Developmental Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7123-8348
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Personality, Social and Developmental Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0747-5028
Number of Authors: 42024 (English)In: Journal of psychedelic studies, ISSN 2559-9283, Vol. 8, no 1, p. 82-91Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Background and aims: Emerging research indicates that psychedelics may have therapeutic potential by fostering meaningful experiences that act as in fl ection points in people ' s narratives of personal development. However, psychedelic research has largely failed to address pertinent developmental considerations. We investigated whether attachment -related variables were associated with psychedelic experiences and whether psychedelic experiences moderated expected links between perceived attachment history and current adult attachment orientations. Methods: We administered an online survey to an international Jewish sample ( N = 185) with psychedelic experience. The survey included measures about recollection of attachment interactions with parents (perceived attachment history), adult attachment orientations (anxiety, avoidance), and psychedelic phenomenology (mystical experiences, challenging experiences, emotional breakthrough, ego dissolution, sensed presence) associated with respondents ' most memorable psychedelic experiences. Results: Perceptions of an insecure attachment history were positively linked to all measures of psychedelic phenomenology ( r ' s = 0.19 - 32, p ' s mostly < 0.01). In contrast, adult attachment orientations were unrelated to psychedelic phenomenology. Also, psychedelic phenomenology mostly did not moderate the links observed between perceptions of an insecure attachment history and adult attachment orientations. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that perceptions of early attachment experiences may be relevant to psychedelic phenomenology. However, subjective experiences associated with naturalistic psychedelic use do not typically attenuate links between a perceived insecure attachment history and attachment insecurity at present.

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2024. Vol. 8, no 1, p. 82-91
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phenomenology, attachment history, adult attachment orientations, earned security
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Applied Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-231215DOI: 10.1556/2054.2024.00330ISI: 001220193600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85187926516OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-231215DiVA, id: diva2:1872561
Available from: 2024-06-18 Created: 2024-06-18 Last updated: 2024-06-18Bibliographically approved

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