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Potential use of ayahuasca in grief therapy

Gonzalez D, Carvalho M, Cantillo J, Aixala M, Farre M

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (2019)

Ethnographic / qualitative
Abstract

Qualitative exploration of ayahuasca's potential in grief therapy. Documented emotional confrontations with death, biographical memory review, and symbolic reencounters with the deceased as therapeutic mechanisms.

Citations60
Study TypeEthnographic / qualitative
grief therapyqualitativedeathbereavement
DOI: 10.1177/0030222817710879View on PubMed

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