Ethics Grand Rounds | Are We Ready for Psychedelic Medicine?
Ethics Grand Rounds | Are We Ready for Psychedelic Medicine?
with Amy McGuire, JD, PhD
Resource List
Journal Articles
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MDMA-assisted therapy for moderate to severe PTSD: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial
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Single-Dose Psilocybin Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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Developing an Ethics and Policy Framework for Psychedelic Clinical Care: A Consensus Statement
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The Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelics Ethics (HOPE) Working Group Consensus Statement
The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2025 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Guest Editorials
Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics
Keisha Ray
Pages: 1-2 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2025.2434403
The Pain Gap: Epistemic Justice in Psychedelic Ethics
Joanna Kempner & Emmanuelle A. D. Schindler
Pages: 3-5 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433447
Target Articles
Psychedelic Medicine Exceptionalism |
I. Glenn Cohen & Mason Marks
Pages: 6-15 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2025.2434398
Distinctive But Not Exceptional: The Risks of Psychedelic Ethical Exceptionalism
Katherine Cheung, Brian D. Earp, Kyle Patch & David B. Yaden
Pages: 16-28 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433421
Supportive Touch in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Logan Neitzke-Spruill, Caroline Beit, Lynnette A. Averill & Amy L. McGuire
Pages: 29-39 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433428
Wolves Among Sheep: Sexual Violations in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Tahlia R. Harrison, Sonya C. Faber, Manzar Zare, Matthieu Fontaine & Monnica T. Williams
Pages: 40-55 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433423
Open Peer Commentaries
Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: What Can be Learned from a Historical Analysis of General Anesthesia and Surgery?
Christopher Scott Stauffer
Pages: 56-58 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433453
Psychedelics in a Deregulated Policy Climate: What Might 2025 Bring?
Lori Bruce
Pages: 59-61 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433420
Focused Bodywork as Facilitated Communication: Cautionary Perspectives on Touch in Psychedelic Therapy
Neşe Devenot
Pages: 61-64 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433416
Psychedelic Ethics Beside Institutions
Kai River Blevins
Pages: 65-67 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433422
Relationality and Ethics in MDMA-Assisted Therapy |
Jamie Beachy, Willa Hall, Chantelle Thomas, Ingmar Gorman & Kelley C. O’Donnell
Pages: 67-71 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433445
Psychedelic Exceptionalism, Indigeneity, and the War on Drugs: Antiracism and Decolonizing Psychedelic Plant Medicine |
Skylar J. Gaughan & Jennifer E. James
Pages: 71-73 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433442
Equipoise and Personal Experience: Maintaining Objectivity in Psychedelic Research |
Katrina DeBonis, Walter Dunn & Thomas Strouse
Pages: 74-76 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433446
Ethics Without Borders: Modernizing Care Beyond Traditional Clinical Approaches
Neil Gehani
Pages: 77-80 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2025.2434400
Is There a Right to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy?
Zak A. Kopeikin
Pages: 80-83 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433417
Critiquing Medical Exceptionalism: Toward a Transcultural Psychedelic Bioethics
Khaleel Rajwani
Pages: 84-87 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433450
Measuring and Understanding the Meaning of Exceptionalism to Bolster Ethics Oversight of Psychedelics Research
Naomi Scheinerman & Claire Erickson
Pages: 87-89 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433444
Continuity in Claims of Exception in Biomedical Technologies
Jacob D. Moses, Miriam Rich, Callie Terris & Emma Tumilty
Pages: 89-92 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433429
Same Same but Different: On Psychedelic Exceptionalism |
Daniel Villiger
Pages: 92-95 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433433
Psychedelic Ethics in Palliative Care
Keenan Davis, Roman Palitsky, Boadie W. Dunlop, George H. Grant & Ali J. Zarrabi
Pages: 95-98 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433457
Embracing Epistemic Humility: Rethinking Psychedelic Exceptionalism Through Diverse Perspectives
Jarrel De Matas, Amy L. McGuire & Hasan Yasin
Pages: 98-100 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433436
Psychedelic Exceptionalism: The Oregon Example
Trevor Findley
Pages: 101-103 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2434619
Irreversibility of Transformative Experience as a Criterion for Exceptionalism
Sergei Shevchenko & Sofya Lavrentyeva
Pages: 103-104 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433452
Indigenous Wisdom and Underground Knowledge Are Exceptional
Christopher Quasti & Dominic Sisti
Pages: 105-106 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2025.2434402
Excusing Psychedelics and Accommodating Psychedelics |
Edward Jacobs
Pages: 107-109 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433441
Exceptional Stigma: Parallels Between Marginalized Groups and Psychedelic Medicine
Susan Lee, Mikaela Kim, Grayson R. Jackson, Hannah Carpenter & Lisa Campo-Engelstein
Pages: 110-112 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433426
Identity-Based Decisional Capacity and Psychedelic Treatments: Furthering the Case Against Psychedelic Ethical Exceptionalism
Shen Pan & David Wendler
Pages: 112-114 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433427
Ketamine and the Consequences of Positive Psychedelic Exceptionalism
Zachary J. Verne, Natalie Gukasyan & Jeffrey Zabinski
Pages: 115-117 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433424
Holding Without Touch: Supportive Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Bryony Insua-Summerhays & Edward Jacobs
Pages: 117-120 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433437
From Theory to Practice: The Importance of Operationalizing and Measuring Ethical Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Jason B. Luoma & Jenna LeJeune
Pages: 120-123 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433425
From Safe Touch to Sexual Abuse: Walking the Tightrope of Patient Safety in Psychedelic Therapy
Y. Tony Yang
Pages: 123-125 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433418
Narrative Hermeneutics and Bioethics: Understanding the Psychedelic Value Changes
Juuso Kähönen, Joel Janhonen & Joona Räsänen
Pages: 125-128 | DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2433464