Ayahuasca: what mental health professionals need to know

Abstract Background Ayahuasca is a psychoactive ethnobotanical concoction that has been used for decades by indigenous groups of the Northwestern Amazon and by syncretic religious organizations for ritual and therapeutic purposes. In the last two decades, it is being used worldwide in evolving pra...

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Main Authors: Rafael Guimarães dos Santos, José Carlos Bouso, Jaime Eduardo Cecilio Hallak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo
Series:Archives of Clinical Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-60832017000400103&lng=en&tlng=en