Rosalind Watts, Hannes Kettner, Dana Geerts, Sam Gandy, Laura Kartner, Lea Mertens, Christopher Timmermann, Matthew M Nour, Mendel Kaelen, David Nutt, Robin Carhart-Harris, Leor Roseman
RATIONALE: A general feeling of disconnection has been associated with mental and emotional suffering. Improvements to a sense of connectedness to self, others and the wider world have been reported by participants in clinical trials of psychedelic therapy. Such accounts have led us to a definition of the psychological construct of 'connectedness' as 'a state of feeling connected to self, others and the wider world'. Existing tools for measuring connectedness have focused on particular aspects of connectedness, such as 'social connectedness' or 'nature connectedness', which we hypothesise to be different expressions of a common factor of connectedness...
August 8, 2022: Psychopharmacology