Imafronte
April 11, 2025
Fernando Espí Forcén
Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film The Holy Mountain has gained cult status, recently amplified by the psychedelic renaissance. The article reviews, analyzes, and interprets the film's symbolism, which incorporates countercultural ideas, Eastern philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and tarot. Rich in psychedelic imagery from the psychoanalytic tradition, the film explores themes central to psychedelic visual culture: descriptions of psychedelic substances and ceremonies, philosophies of the psychedelic counterculture, deconstruction of societal norms, and trauma exploration and healing from psychedelic experiences.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
January 7, 2025
Fernando Espí Forcén
A patient who used psilocybin without psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy required inpatient psychiatric admission. The case highlights the importance of taking psilocybin in controlled clinical settings. The authors discuss how psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy could have changed the outcome and the role of experiential learning for potential prescribers.
The primary care companion for CNS disorders
June 25, 2026
Franklin King, Juliana Zambrano, Erin Mauney et al.
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The primary care companion for CNS disorders
June 23, 2026
Franklin King, Brian S Barnett, S Trevor Taylor et al.
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The Journal of clinical psychiatry
April 5, 2023
Albert Yeung, Guy Sapirstein, Laura D Crain et al.
Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is most commonly defined by at least two prior treatment failures with adequate dose and duration, though consensus is lacking. A clinical case illustrates a patient with long-standing depression and inadequate treatment response, where persistent self-criticism appears to drive unrelenting symptoms, intense anger, self-doubt, and self-disapproval. The article explores potential causes of self-criticism, its impact on depression and help-seeking, and plausible treatment approaches.
Palliative and Supportive Care
April 1, 2023
Fernando Espí Forcén, Laura Marengo, Maya Behn
A patient with recurrent, severe depression and suicidal ideation improved after receiving meaning-centered psychotherapy combined with ketamine. His scores on a suicide assessment tool improved significantly with this combination. Ketamine is generally well tolerated and can enhance outcomes in patients undergoing meaning-centered psychotherapy.
Psychiatric Annals
September 1, 2022
Fernando Espí Forcén, Maren Nyer
Ketamine is the only prescribable psychedelic medicine in the United States and a promising treatment for depression. Most ketamine clinics currently administer ketamine without psychotherapy. This article reviews recent literature on combining ketamine with psychotherapy for psychiatric disorders, opening discussion on whether combined treatment offers benefits over ketamine alone.