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  1. Distinctive But Not Exceptional: The Risks of Psychedelic Ethical Exceptionalism.Katherine Cheung, Brian D. Earp, Kyle Patch & David B. Yaden - 2025 - American Journal of Bioethics 25 (1):16-28.
    When used clinically, psychedelics may appear unusual or even unique when compared to more familiar or long-standing medical interventions, prompting some to suggest that the ethical issues raised may likewise be exceptional. If that is correct, then perhaps psychedelics should be treated differently from other medical substances: for example, by being subjected to different ethical or evidentiary standards. Alternatively, it may be that psychedelics have more in common with various existing medical interventions than first meets the eye. We argue in (...)
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  • How to Make Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Safer.Daniel Https://Orcidorg624X Villiger - forthcoming - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics:1-15.
    Classic serotonergic psychedelics are experiencing a clinical revival, which has also revived ethical debates about psychedelic-assisted therapy. A particular issue here is how to prepare and protect patients from the vulnerability that the psychedelic state creates. This article first examines how this vulnerability manifests itself, revealing that it results from an impairment of autonomy: psychedelics diminish decision-making capacity, reduce controllability, and limit resistance to external influences. It then analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of five safety measures proposed in the literature, (...)
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  • Mental disorder and its treatment as a transformative experience.Daniel Villiger - forthcoming - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences:1-21.
    According to L.A. Paul, undergoing an experience is transformative if we learn something we cannot learn without having the experience and if it substantially changes our point of view. While the implications of transformative experiences have primarily been discussed in the context of rational choice, their underlying concept has also proven fruitful in the context of unchosen occurrences. The present paper examines mental disorder and its treatment from a transformative experiential perspective, using major depressive disorder as an exemplary case. It (...)
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  • Same Same but Different: On Psychedelic Exceptionalism.Daniel Https://Orcidorg624X Villiger - 2025 - American Journal of Bioethics 25 (1):92-95.
    The presence of unusual features in psychedelic treatments has led to the argument that these treatments are exceptional within medicine and should therefore also be treated as exceptional when ana...
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