随着对迷幻辅助心理治疗治疗抑郁症疗效的调查继续进行,有必要研究可能有助于治疗抗抑郁作用的可能作用机制。通过两轮德尔福设计,目前的研究调查了专家对与迷幻药辅助心理治疗的抗抑郁作用相关的心理作用机制的意见,以及通过准备可以促进这种机制的方式,给药,和治疗的集成组件。十四名和十五名专家,包括临床迷幻研究人员和治疗师,参加了研究的第1轮和第2轮,分别。主题分析从第一轮反应中确定了九个重要或有希望的“机械主题”:心理灵活性,自我同情,神秘的经历,自我超越,意义增强,认知重构,awe,记忆重新巩固和自我溶解。这些机制在第二轮中被提交给专家,他们认为“心理灵活性”和“自我同情”是迷幻药辅助抑郁症心理治疗中最重要的心理机制。在筹备期间为促进已确定的机制而建议的战略或干预措施,给药,治疗的整合成分对认可的机制是非特异性的。这项研究的发现为未来的验证性机制研究提供了方向,并为如何支持这些可能的治疗机制提供了临时思路。
As investigations into the efficacy of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to treat depression continue, there is a need to
study the possible mechanisms of action that may contribute to the treatment\'s antidepressant effects. Through a two-round Delphi design, the current
study investigated experts\' opinions on the psychological mechanisms of action associated with the antidepressant effects of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and the ways such mechanisms may be promoted through the preparation, dosing, and integration components of treatment. Fourteen and fifteen experts, including both clinical psychedelic researchers and therapists, participated in Round 1 and Round 2 of the
study, respectively. Thematic analysis identified nine important or promising \'mechanistic themes\' from Round 1 responses: psychological flexibility, self-compassion, mystical experiences, self-transcendence, meaning enhancement, cognitive reframing, awe, memory reconsolidation and ego dissolution. These mechanisms were presented back to experts in Round 2, where they rated \'psychological flexibility\' and \'self-compassion\' to be the most important psychological mechanisms in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for depression. Strategies or interventions recommended to promote identified mechanisms during the preparation, dosing, and integration components of treatment were nonspecific to the endorsed mechanism. The findings from this
study provide direction for future confirmatory mechanistic research as well as provisional ideas for how to support these possible therapeutic mechanisms.