Classic Psychedelic Use and Emerging Adult Development: Exploring Potential Positive Impacts

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In this presentation, Jake Payne will outline the preliminary findings from his PhD.

First, he will discuss a narrative review that utilized Robinson’s (2020) framework to generate hypotheses regarding possible ways that psychedelic use may positively interact with emerging adult development. Here, we reviewed potential pathways psychedelics may facilitate emerging adults’ positive orthogenetic, veridical-epistemic, eudaimonic, relational, and ethical developmental trajectories through changes in personality trait openness, beliefs systems, self-insight and social concern.

Secondly, he will discuss the findings from a qualitative survey that investigated retrospective reports of ways that Australian men were positively impacted by their classic psychedelic use during emerging adulthood. Lastly, he will present findings from the Monitoring the Future Data about the quantitative relationship between patterns of psychedelics during emerging adulthood use and completion of adult developmental tasks at age 30.

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Jake Payne
Jake Payne

Jake is a Master of Clinical Psychology and PhD Candidate at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches undergraduate psychology students in counselling, social psychology, and the fundamentals of psychology. He also supervises psychology honours research projects. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on the topic of mindfulness, psychedelics and neurophysiology. His PhD explores the ways psychedelic use may aid emerging adult development.

Entheogenesis Australis

Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a charity using education to help grow the Australian ethnobotanical community and their gardens. We encourage knowledge-sharing on botanical research, conservation, medicinal plants, arts, and culture.

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