Group therapy and psilocybin eased demoralization in AIDS survivors
What they did
UCSF paired eight to ten group therapy sessions with a single psilocybin administration for eighteen older gay-identified men living with HIV since before 1996 who carried persistent demoralization.
What they found
Demoralization scores improved meaningfully from baseline to the three month follow-up, with two thirds of participants improving by at least two points and no serious adverse reactions.
Worth knowing
Open-label with no control group, and the group therapy format means the psilocybin cannot be separated from the effect of the group itself.
Anderson et al. Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralized older long-term AIDS survivor men. eClinicalMedicine, 2020.
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