Capacity Building Through Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Navigating Social Determinants of Health

Neurocentric bias in psychiatry threatens to reduce psychedelics to neurobiological interventions and distort the experiential, social, and relational aspects of psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT). PAT demands an ecological and relational orientation to fully account for the various phenomena implicated in mental health, psychedelics' effects, and outcomes of psychedelic experiences. The re-emergence of psychedelics as a legitimate therapeutic modality offers psychiatry an opportunity to embrace more holistic, humanistic, and socially grounded approaches. We argue that PAT should be framed as a capacity-building endeavor that seeks to improve patients' self-perceptions and capabilities to act in ways they find meaningful.