The centrality of sense of self in psychological flexibility processes: What the neurobiological and psychological correlates of psychedelics suggest (Pages 30-38)

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS)

Special Issue on Contextual Behavioral Science and the Psychedelic Renaissance

Volume 15, January 2020, Pages 30-38

Authors

Steven C. Hayes, Stu Law, Mark Malady, Zhuohong Zhu, Xiaoyu Bai

Abstract

Highlights

• The psychological flexibility model can guide therapeutic use of psychedelics

• The processes of change engaged by psychedelics overlap with that model

• Changes in time, place, and person are central to the impact of psychedelics

• These data fit with a hierarchical deictic approach to the perspective-taking self

• A perspective-taking self may play a more central role in psychological flexibility