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Psychedelic Communitas: Intersubjective Experience During Psychedelic Group Sessions Predicts Enduring Changes in Psychological Wellbeing and Social Connectedness

Hannes Kettner, Fernando E. Rosas, Christopher Timmermann, Laura Kärtner, Robin L. Carhart-Harris and Leor Roseman · 2021

Evidence
Survey
Kind
Journal article
peer-reviewed
Method
Prospective online questionnaires around psychedelic ceremonies and retreats, with a four-week follow-up
Sample
886 respondents overall; 399 responded at four weeks and 213 had complete data for the path model
Published
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12, 623985
Practices
Psychedelic group ceremonies

Adjacent

Studies a related practice or mechanism, without testing Circling.

A prospective survey linked a stronger sense of togetherness during psychedelic ceremonies with later gains in reported wellbeing and social connection.

What it doesn’t show

Participants had already chosen a ceremony or retreat, and all measures were their own reports. Only 399 of 886 respondents contributed at four weeks, with fewer in the complete-data model. Without assigned conditions, drug effects, expectations and group setting cannot be separated or given causal credit.

Summary based on the abstract and the full text’s methods, results and limitations.

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Cite

Kettner, H., Rosas, F. E., Timmermann, C., Kärtner, L., Carhart-Harris, R. L., & Roseman, L. (2021). Psychedelic Communitas: Intersubjective Experience During Psychedelic Group Sessions Predicts Enduring Changes in Psychological Wellbeing and Social Connectedness. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12, 623985. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.623985