An Occupational Perspective on Psychedelic Therapy: A Scoping Review.

This is a scoping review of nine qualitative articles, so it maps experiences rather than testing outcomes. Included studies varied in substances, settings, diagnoses, interview timing, and quality; one low, two medium, six high. Authors included both therapeutic and ceremonial contexts and caution against conflating them, but analysis still combined them. Favorable reports may reflect self-selection, prior exposure, expectation bias, highly educated participants, and media hype. Authors are of European settler descent, cis-gendered, three women and one man, and three are Canadian occupational therapists. Search terms were limited to English and Western notions, and total participant numbers were not reported.

No funding or conflict-of-interest declaration is given in the supplied text. Three authors are occupational therapists in Canada.

Do not read this as evidence that psychedelics improve mental health. It is a scoping review of nine qualitative studies, so it reports participants' subjective experiences and cannot show benefit or causation.