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Psychedelic minimalism: the case against music in psychedelic therapy settings — Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Key
- nader2025minimalism
- Authors
- Nader, Samir A.
- Issued
- 2025-8-26
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Volume
- 16
- Pages
- 1652568
Raw CSL JSON
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"title": "Psychedelic minimalism: the case against music in psychedelic therapy settings",
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"issued": {
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26
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Claims
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Samir Nader argues for 'psychedelic minimalism', proposing that music in psychedelic therapy may act as a confounding variable that distorts or displaces the patient's own psychological material, and that a silent, emotionally neutral setting may allow more authentic introspection; he notes that the lead author of the paper he responds to is CEO of a company providing music for psychedelic therapy.
"the inclusion of music in psychedelic therapy may not be benign or beneficial but could instead function as a confounding variable"
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