Dying to live: The Power of Transcendence in the Treatment of Existential Anxiety
@inproceedings{Gandy2017DyingTL, title={Dying to live: The Power of Transcendence in the Treatment of Existential Anxiety}, author={S. Gandy}, year={2017} }
There is a notable lack of effective treatments and therapies available for the treatment of existential anxiety. There are, however, a number of avenues worthy of more attention, all experiential or using insights gained from experiences. Such experiences include near-death experiences (NDEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and those yielded by classical psychedelics such as psilocybin. Of these, the psychedelics may have a particular utility when it comes to the treatment of existential… CONTINUE READING
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