Transformative Inversion of Existential Feelings: Understanding Therapeutically Beneficial Experiences in Psychedelic Treatment and Personal Recovery Through Ratcliffe’s Lens
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2025-02-05
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This paper explores the thematic similarities between therapeutically beneficial experiences in psychedelic treatment and personal recovery by drawing on Ratcliffe’s concept of existential feeling. To do so, the initial section provides an introduction to psychedelics in psychiatric practice and highlights commonly experienced themes considered therapeutically beneficial. The second section introduces personal recovery and CHIME – five key processes considered
beneficial. Here, I also establish that certain similarities are evident when comparing the therapeutically beneficial themes in psychedelic treatment and CHIME. While section three outlines Ratcliffe’s work on existential feeling, section four deals with its application to psychedelic and personal recovery experiences and delves into the question of how the thematic similarities can be understood in terms of a transformative inversion of existential feeling. By uncovering antithetical possibility structures of experience, I conclude that the themes considered therapeutically beneficial are pre-determined by the themes encountered in mental disorder.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen