This glossary defines terms as they are used in this compilation. Where a term belongs to a particular historical source or tradition, that usage is distinguished from the compilation's own analytical vocabulary.
2C-B
A synthetic psychoactive substance used in some sessions in Friederike Meckel Fischer's underground Zurich psycholytic practice, sometimes alongside MDMA. Its presence in this corpus documents that practice; it is not treated as a general component of substance-assisted psychotherapy. [1]
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5-MeO-DMT
A short-acting psychedelic substance appearing in contemporary retreat and research-linked provider settings, including Tandava and the Ambio-associated veteran cohort. In this corpus it should not be conflated with DMT-containing ayahuasca. [2] [3]
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ACT — Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
A contemporary psychotherapy approach appearing in practitioner backgrounds in the corpus. Its presence documents the therapeutic vocabulary used by particular practitioners; the compilation does not treat ACT as a general feature of substance-assisted work.
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Access
Analytical term. Used in this compilation for descriptions in which previously difficult-to-discuss emotions, experiences or psychological material appear to become more available. Sources themselves use language such as “defensive walls,” “stuck,” “faster,” “deeper,” or “loosened.” “Access” should therefore not be mistaken for a standardized historical mechanism. [4] [5]
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Acute-state facilitation
Analytical term. The actions taken by therapists, guides, healers, medical staff or others while a psychoactive substance is actively affecting the participant. The corpus contains markedly different styles, from non-directive support to intensive psychotherapy, ritual activity and medical monitoring.
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Active psychotherapeutic facilitation
Analytical category. Acute-state work in which substantial psychotherapy occurs while the participant is under the influence, as in Fischer's intensive group work and the interventionist orientation described in PSIP material. It is descriptive, not an efficacy ranking. [6] [1]
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Addiction / substance dependence / substance-use disorder
Related but historically non-identical terms used across the corpus for persistent harmful drug or alcohol use. Older sources use language such as “alcohol dependency,” “heroin dependence,” “chemical dependence,” and “toxicomanias”; contemporary clinical terminology more often uses substance-use disorder. These should not be retroactively treated as identical diagnostic formulations. [7] [8]
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Aftercare
Support occurring after the principal substance-assisted intervention, especially prominent in historical ibogaine sources. It may include psychotherapy, relapse prevention, social support, practical planning or follow-up. It overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, integration. [9]
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Altered state / non-ordinary state of consciousness
Broad terms for a state of experience substantially different from ordinary waking consciousness. Different sources attribute different significance to such states; the compilation uses altered state descriptively without endorsing any particular psychological or spiritual interpretation.
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Amplifier / catalyst
Source language used particularly in Roots to Thrive, where ketamine is positioned as an adjunctive amplifier or therapeutic catalyst rather than the primary intervention. In the compilation it illustrates one theory of the substance's role, not a universal mechanism. [10]
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Amazonian traditional medicine
An umbrella phrase used for healing systems and practices originating in Amazonian communities and practitioner lineages. Within this corpus it includes practices such as plant preparations, dietas, purgatives, baths, songs and ceremonial work. It should not be treated as one uniform medical system. [11]
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Ayahuasca
An Amazonian psychoactive brew/medicine central to several ceremonial, religious and treatment settings in the corpus. The compilation treats ayahuasca use as one component of heterogeneous systems, not as one standardized intervention. [11]
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Bodywork
A broad source term for therapeutic attention involving bodily sensation, movement or physical processes. The compilation deliberately does not assume that bodywork, yoga, plant baths, somatic psychotherapy and manual labour all share one theory.
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BfArM
Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices. In this corpus it appears in connection with OVID's German psilocybin compassionate-use programme.
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Bufo
Provider/community shorthand generally referring to preparations containing 5-MeO-DMT derived from Incilius alvarius secretions. Nierika's material uses the term in intercultural entheogenic work. The glossary retains the source terminology without treating “Bufo” as synonymous with all 5-MeO-DMT practice. [12]
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Bwiti
A group of Gabonese spiritual/religious traditions in which iboga can play an important ceremonial and initiatory role. Bwiti House and Bwiti-derived retreat providers in this corpus should not be taken as representing all Bwiti communities or traditions. [13]
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Catalyst
See Amplifier / catalyst.
Community of Practice — CoP
The term used by Roots to Thrive for its structured group programme. In that programme the CoP is described as the primary intervention and ketamine as an adjunct. The compilation does not use Community of Practice as a generic synonym for every support group. [10]
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Compassionate use
A regulatory pathway allowing access to an otherwise unapproved medicine under defined circumstances. In this corpus it refers particularly to psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression in Germany through the OVID/Mannheim programme. [14]
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Complex PTSD — CPTSD
A contemporary diagnostic term for trauma-related difficulties extending beyond core PTSD symptoms into persistent problems such as self-organisation, emotional regulation and relationships. It appears explicitly in some contemporary sources; the compilation does not retroactively diagnose historical addiction, abuse or “stuck” psychotherapy cases as CPTSD. [12] [15]
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CONASAMA
Mexico's national mental-health/addictions authority named among public-sector supporters in Nierika's intercultural mental-health material.
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Containment / container
Both source and analytical language. Fischer's paper uses “containing element,” while other sources discuss supportive environments or “holding space.” The compilation uses container more broadly for the human, medical, social, physical or ritual structure surrounding an altered-state experience. [1]
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Contemporary evidence
Evidence produced near the current period. It is distinct from contemporaneous evidence, which means evidence produced at approximately the same time as the historical practice being described.
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Contemporaneous evidence
A source created close in time to the practice or event it documents—for example the 2004 Salt Lake City Weekly report on underground MDMA psychotherapy. It generally provides stronger historical provenance than a practitioner remembering the same events decades later.
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Co-regulation
A contemporary psychological term for regulation occurring through interaction with another person or group. It appears most explicitly in modern relational/group models such as Roots to Thrive; the compilation does not project the term onto older communities that used different vocabularies.
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Cross-ecology recurrence
Analytical term. A pattern appearing in several meaningfully distinct practice ecologies rather than repeatedly inside one connected lineage. This is the compilation's primary safeguard against false recurrence. [16]
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Cross-source observation
Analytical level. A statement that several sources independently describe comparable practices or concerns. It is stronger than one provider's claim but does not by itself establish causality.
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Curanderismo
A broad Spanish-language term for traditional healing practices associated with curanderos/curanderas. In this corpus it appears in Amazonian/Peruvian plant-medicine contexts and should not be assumed to denote one standardized lineage.
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Dieta / master-plant diet
An Amazonian therapeutic/ritual practice involving work with particular plants together with behavioral or dietary restrictions and periods of focused retreat. Sources such as Takiwasi and Nihue Rao treat dieta as a named intervention in its own right, rather than merely a food restriction preceding ayahuasca. [11] [17]
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Dissociation
A clinical term covering disruptions in normally integrated experience, which can involve detachment, disconnection or altered self/world experience. It appears in trauma-oriented material including PSIP and contemporary CPTSD screening discussions. The compilation does not infer dissociation when a source merely describes an unusual altered state.
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Ecological independence
See Cross-ecology recurrence and Lineage.
Embodiment / embodied practice
A broad term referring to attention to bodily experience or practices involving movement, sensation and physical presence. Modern sources use the language directly; older sources may describe yoga, breathing, labour, bathing, posture or movement without using embodiment as a theory.
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Enactment
Analytical term. The translation of an experience or interpretation into actual behavior, relationships, routines or other life changes. It is used in the framework to distinguish understanding an experience from living differently afterward.
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Entheogen / entheogenic medicine
A term commonly used in spiritual, ceremonial and some intercultural settings for psychoactive substances understood as facilitating sacred or spiritually significant experience. Nierika uses related terminology. The compilation retains the term as source vocabulary rather than adopting its spiritual assumptions. [12]
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Facilitator
A broad role term for a person supporting an altered-state experience without necessarily being the prescribing physician or psychotherapist. Responsibilities differ sharply by programme.
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Family Constellation
A group-oriented psychotherapeutic/systemic practice that influenced Fischer's underground psycholytic work. Its presence documents her lineage and methods; the compilation makes no efficacy claim about the modality. [1]
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Fire Talk
Programme-specific language used at Bwiti House for repeated fire-side teaching, counseling or reflection sessions surrounding ceremonies. It should not be generalized to all Bwiti practice. [13]
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Flooding
Analytical/clinical shorthand. Used here for an experience in which psychological material or affect becomes difficult to tolerate or regulate. The historical Erowid report describing childhood-trauma material as “too much to deal with too fast” is one corpus example; it is an anecdote, not evidence of prevalence. [18]
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Gestalt psychotherapy
A psychotherapy tradition emphasizing present experience, awareness and relational contact. It appears in the IDEAA lineage together with humanistic and transpersonal work. The compilation does not treat it as a general ingredient of psychedelic therapy. [8]
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Group sharing / sharing circle
Structured or informal collective discussion of experiences. It appears in psycholytic groups, contemporary retreats, ayahuasca seminars, ketamine programmes and community systems, but may serve different purposes in each.
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Guided imagery
A psychological practice using deliberately evoked mental imagery. It appears in Psyon's post-ketamine group and in some historical ketamine/psychotherapy settings. [19]
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Harm reduction
An approach aimed at reducing harm rather than requiring a single outcome such as abstinence. The term appears particularly in the ibogaine and later integration/training ecologies; Iboga Therapy House used the phrase “holistic harm reduction and health promotion.” [20]
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Higher-order observation
Analytical level. A cautious relationship inferred after comparing several cross-source patterns. It is always marked as our synthesis, not wording attributable to an individual source.
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Holding space
Source/practitioner language for remaining present and supportive without necessarily steering the person's psychological process. The Temple uses the heading “Holding Space and Non-Intervention.” The term is not assumed to have exactly the same meaning across all providers. [21]
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Holotropic Breathwork
A non-drug altered-state practice developed by Stanislav and Christina Grof using structured breathing and related methods. It influenced Fischer and appears in other contemporary practitioner settings. Its appearance is tracked partly because substance and non-substance altered-state work sometimes share practitioner lineages. [1]
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Iboga
A psychoactive plant central to several Gabonese/Bwiti traditions and modern retreat settings. It is related to, but should not simply be equated with, isolated ibogaine treatment.
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Ibogaine
A psychoactive alkaloid associated especially in this corpus with attempts to treat opioid and other substance dependence. Practice developed through overlapping peer-led, underground and medicalised networks, which are deliberately counted as a connected ecology rather than numerous independent origins. [20]
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Icaro
A healing song used in Amazonian/Shipibo ceremonial practice. In the corpus, individualized icaros appear particularly in Temple material. Their role belongs to a specific traditional healing framework and should not be translated automatically into Western psychotherapy terminology. [21]
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IFS / parts work
Internal Family Systems and related parts approaches conceptualize internal experience in terms of distinguishable parts or sub-personalities. These appear among contemporary practitioner modalities in the corpus; they are not a shared historical framework across the field. [22]
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“Inner healing intelligence”
Source-specific terminology strongly associated here with the MAPS/Lykos treatment model. It refers to an asserted innate capacity for healing which therapists are meant to support rather than replace. The compilation treats this as MAPS model language, not an established biological mechanism. [23]
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Integration
A broad modern umbrella term for work undertaken to process, understand or incorporate experiences after an altered state. The corpus shows that older or parallel systems often call related practices aftercare, follow-up, sober psychotherapy, group sharing, processing or practical reintegration. The compilation therefore treats integration as several possible activities rather than one intervention. [19] [9]
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Intention / intention-setting
The articulation of aims, questions or desired directions before an altered-state session. It appears in underground psychotherapy, contemporary retreat programmes and Amazonian-associated preparation material. It should not be confused with an outcome guarantee.
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Interpretive authority
Analytical term. Who is treated as entitled to determine the meaning of imagery, memories, emotions, bodily states or spiritual experiences: the participant, therapist, group, programme or traditional lineage. [24]
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KAP — Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
A broad contemporary term for ketamine used in conjunction with psychotherapy. The corpus specifically warns against assuming that every ketamine service is KAP: KRIYA distinguishes medical/biochemical, psychotherapeutic and psychedelic paradigms, and some clinics are considerably more pharmacological than psychotherapeutic. [25]
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KaT — Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
A broader label used in sources such as Roots to Thrive for ketamine embedded within a therapeutic programme. It need not denote one particular psychotherapy modality. [10]
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Ketamine
A dissociative anaesthetic also used in psychiatric treatment and in some psychotherapeutic/psychedelic models. In this corpus it is especially important because radically different approaches use the same drug—from medical delivery to Russian KPT and long-form group programmes.
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KPT — Ketamine Psychedelic Therapy
The Russian therapeutic lineage associated especially with Evgeny Krupitsky, documented by 1997 as having an eleven-year history in alcohol-dependence work. It involved preparatory psychotherapy, ketamine experience and subsequent psychotherapy. Eleusis explicitly adapted this lineage and therefore is not counted as an independent origin. [7] [26]
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Lineage
Analytical/provenance term. A traceable chain of training, borrowing, institutional affiliation, shared practitioners or explicit descent connecting practices. Lineage tracking prevents one inherited model from being counted as several independent discoveries. [27]
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Longitudinal support / longitudinal care
Analytical term. Therapeutic or supportive contact extended over time rather than concentrated in one acute event. It may consist of repeated substance sessions, sober psychotherapy, groups, aftercare, home-clinician continuity or community contact.
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MAPS / Lykos treatment lineage
The connected MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research and treatment-manual lineage originally sponsored through MAPS and later developed corporately through MAPS Public Benefit Corporation/Lykos. The compilation counts this as one source family and flags MAPS-trained descendants to avoid lineage inflation. [23] [28]
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MDMA
3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, used historically in underground psychotherapy and subsequently in formal PTSD research. The corpus does not treat participant experiences or underground practitioner claims as equivalent to controlled clinical evidence.
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Medical/minimal facilitation
Analytical category. A model in which visible acute-state responsibilities center mainly on assessment, drug administration, physiological monitoring and safety rather than intensive psychotherapy.
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Mindfulness
Attention practices emphasizing awareness of present experience. It appears in Psyon, contemporary integration programmes and other provider modalities. Its recurrence does not imply one standardized mindfulness protocol.
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Non-directive
A therapeutic stance in which the facilitator deliberately avoids imposing a predetermined direction or interpretation. MAPS uses the phrase “invitation rather than direction”; the Temple uses “Holding Space and Non-Intervention.” Non-directive does not mean inactive or medically unsupervised. [21] [23]
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Normalized cluster
Analytical term. A compilation-created label joining differently worded source observations for comparison—for example Preparation / readiness or Access ↔ tolerability. A normalized cluster is never presented as vocabulary shared by all sources.
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Onaya / Onanyabo
Terms appearing in Shipibo healing contexts for traditional healers or knowledgeable practitioners. English spellings and singular/plural forms vary among institutions. They should not simply be replaced with the Western term therapist.
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Participant report
First-person testimony from someone describing their own experience. Participant reports are used here for phenomenology, failures and practical observations; they do not independently demonstrate efficacy or causality. [18]
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PAT / psychedelic-assisted therapy
A broad contemporary label for treatment in which a psychedelic substance is incorporated into a wider therapeutic process. The compilation uses it cautiously because the actual treatment structures represented under that umbrella differ greatly.
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Peyote
A mescaline-containing cactus used in Indigenous ceremonial traditions. It appears in Nierika's intercultural work. Its presence should be understood within the particular Indigenous/community setting rather than generalized into a generic psychedelic protocol. [12]
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Plant medicine
Source/community language for psychoactive or medicinal plants used in healing or ceremonial contexts. It is not a precise pharmacological category and the compilation retains it mainly when reflecting the terminology of the relevant practice ecology.
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Preparation
Work taking place before the altered-state intervention. The corpus shows several distinct forms: medical screening, psychological history and formulation, intention-setting, relationship-building, psychoeducation, practical preparation and ritual restrictions. [29] [30]
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Provider-authored evidence
Material in which an organisation or practitioner describes its own methods, history or outcomes. It is valid evidence for what the provider says it does, but not by itself proof that the method works as claimed. [16]
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Psilocybin
A psychedelic compound associated in this corpus with retreat practice, psychotherapy programmes and compassionate-use treatment. As with ketamine, the substance alone does not specify the therapeutic model surrounding it.
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy
A family of psychotherapies concerned with unconscious patterns, relationships and internal conflict. It appears in practitioner backgrounds such as Soltara/LaWayra-associated integration work, but is not treated as a universal element of the corpus.
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Psycholytic psychotherapy
Historically, psychotherapy using psychoactive substances at doses intended to facilitate psychological exploration while retaining substantial therapeutic interaction. Fischer's Zurich work belongs to a Swiss/European psycholytic lineage. The term should not be used interchangeably with every form of contemporary psychedelic-assisted therapy. [1]
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Psychospiritual
A source/category term for practices addressing psychological concerns together with spiritual, existential or meaning-related aims. It is deliberately kept separate from formal psychiatric diagnosis.
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PTSD — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
A formal trauma-related diagnosis explicitly targeted in the MAPS research lineage and appearing in multiple clinical and provider populations. Historical abuse, addiction or difficult experiences are not automatically labelled PTSD unless the source does so.
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Purgative / purge
A preparation intended to induce vomiting or other bodily elimination, used in some Amazonian traditional-medicine settings as a therapeutic or cleansing practice. It should not be equated automatically with Western detoxification. [11]
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Re-entry
Analytical term. The phase in which a participant returns to ordinary relationships, work, routines, psychiatric care or community after the intensive treatment/retreat period. It is kept separate from immediate post-session interpretation because several sources address these as different practical problems.
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Regression
A therapeutic or experiential concept involving return toward earlier memories, states or developmental material. Some programme language explicitly uses “Regression to Childhood.” Its presence describes a therapeutic frame; it does not establish that recovered material is historically accurate. [31]
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Relapse
Return to problematic substance use after a period of reduction or abstinence. Historical ibogaine material is important precisely because follow-up practitioners encountered relapse despite dramatic acute experiences. [32]
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Relational witnessing
Analytical term. The presence of another person or group who hears, sees or accompanies difficult experience. The corpus contains therapists, peers, friends, family and groups in this position, but does not establish one common mechanism or prove that witnessing itself produces therapeutic effects.
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Responsive facilitation
Analytical category. An acute-state stance in which a practitioner does not continuously direct the experience but actively responds when psychological material emerges.
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Retrospective evidence
An account produced substantially after the practice being described, often from practitioner memory. It is retained but weighted differently from contemporaneous documentation. R. Coleman is the clearest example in the frozen corpus. [33]
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Ritual-active facilitation
Analytical category. Altered-state practice actively shaped through ceremony, songs, diagnosis, prayer, teaching or other ritual action rather than primarily through Western psychotherapy.
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Santo Daime
A Brazilian ayahuasca-using religious tradition represented in the corpus through centres such as Céu Sagrado. Its healing and addiction work belongs to a religious/community ecology rather than a conventional clinical service. [34]
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Schema-informed therapy
Psychotherapy informed by schema concepts: persistent patterns of expectation, emotion and behaviour. It appears in contemporary practitioner profiles such as LaWayra's integration network rather than as a corpus-wide model. [22]
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Screening / suitability
Processes used to decide whether a person should proceed with an intervention. The corpus includes psychological selection, medical assessment, psychiatric assessment, application processes and risk review; the criteria differ substantially across ecologies.
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Shipibo-Konibo
An Indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon whose healing traditions are central to several retreat settings in the corpus. The compilation distinguishes Shipibo healing frameworks from the Western psychological facilitation sometimes added around them.
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Somatic / somatic psychotherapy
A broad modern family of approaches emphasizing bodily sensation and regulation in psychological work. The compilation uses somatic only where sources do; it does not retroactively relabel every historical body-oriented practice as somatic psychotherapy.
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Somatic Experiencing
A specific body-oriented trauma approach named in some contemporary practitioner profiles. Its presence is a practitioner-modality detail, not a shared characteristic of the corpus. [22]
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Source family
Analytical/provenance term. All material belonging to one institution, practitioner or tightly connected network. Ten pages from one provider remain one source family for recurrence counting. [16]
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Source language
Words or phrases actually present in the evidence, as opposed to normalized labels created by this compilation.
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Source-described
The first evidentiary layer of this wiki: something directly stated or described by a source. It does not imply that the claim is externally verified or effective.
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TBI — Traumatic Brain Injury
Brain injury caused by external trauma. It appears particularly in the Ambio/Stanford Special Operations veteran cohort, alongside PTSD, depression and anxiety symptoms. [2]
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Temazcal
A traditional sweat-bath or sweat-lodge practice appearing in Nierika's intercultural mental-health model. It belongs to the cultural/traditional-treatment context of that programme rather than a generic psychedelic psychotherapy protocol. [12]
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Therapeutic alliance
The working relationship between a therapist and client, including dimensions such as trust and collaboration. It appears explicitly in formal psychotherapy sources and is not identical to ritual authority, peer support or friendship.
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Tolerability
Analytical term. The degree to which difficult affect, imagery, bodily experience or autobiographical material can be encountered without becoming unmanageable. The corpus supports the importance of this distinction through both provider pacing language and adverse first-person material; it does not establish a formal quantitative threshold.
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Toxicomania / toxicomanías
Historical Spanish/French-derived terminology for compulsive or dependent drug use. IDEAA used the term in its 2007-era addiction-treatment literature. It is retained as historical source vocabulary rather than silently modernized into CPTSD or another diagnosis. [8]
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Transpersonal psychotherapy / transpersonal psychology
Psychological approaches that explicitly include experiences of meaning, spirituality or states understood as extending beyond ordinary personal identity. They appear in Fischer-associated training, IDEAA, Magalies and other practitioner contexts. The compilation does not assume the transpersonal interpretation of those experiences is objectively correct.
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Trauma-informed
A contemporary label for practice designed with awareness that trauma may affect safety, trust, boundaries, regulation and responses to treatment. Because current providers use the phrase differently, the compilation gives more weight to what a programme operationally describes doing than to the label itself.
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Treatment-resistant depression — TRD
Depression that has not responded adequately to prior standard treatments, although exact definitions vary clinically. It is the formal target of OVID's current German psilocybin compassionate-use programme and appears in modern ketamine settings. [14]
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“Tripod”
Takiwasi's source language for its three-part therapeutic architecture combining medicinal plants/Amazonian medicine, psychotherapy and community living/work. It is institution-specific wording, not the compilation's general framework. [11]
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UGC — User-generated content
Forum posts, reviews, first-person reports and similar participant-created material. In this corpus UGC is used to document experience, vocabulary, failures and practical observations, not as controlled efficacy evidence. [35]
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V1 / V2 / V3
The verification levels frozen with the corpus. V1: directly re-opened/reverified. V2: inspected earlier and retained but not fully reopened during the freeze. V3: not independently reverified in the rebuild and therefore not promotable to fact without another check. [16]
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Vegetalismo
A broad Amazonian tradition of plant-based healing associated with specialist practitioners and extensive knowledge of medicinal plants. In this corpus it is especially relevant to Takiwasi and some Peruvian plant-medicine contexts. It should not be reduced to ayahuasca administration alone.
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Visibility bias
Analytical term. The risk that a highly documented institution appears more important or representative merely because it has more accessible webpages, papers or English-language material. The compilation counters this by weighting source families and independent ecologies rather than raw mentions.
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“Voice & choice”
Tandava's source language for its sexual-trauma programme, describing participant agency and pacing. It is programme-specific wording, although it contributes to the broader atlas pattern concerning consent, pacing and tolerability. [3]
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Visionary substance
Historical/practitioner language used particularly in the IDEAA material for consciousness-altering substances. It carries different connotations from contemporary clinical terms such as psychedelic-assisted therapy and is preserved where historically relevant. [8]
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