Systematic Review of Personality and Psychedelics: Relating to Challenging Experiences and Personality Change
Abstract
As the psychedelic renaissance continues culturally and scientifically there is an increased interest in these substances both recreationally and medicinally, and as legislation continues to change there is now an increased access to these substances. While there is a plethora of modern research showing safety and efficacy to treat mental health disorders, more research needs to be done to investigate how people differ in their reactions to psychedelics. One factor to investigate is personality. Personality is regarded as a portion of the set in set and setting, and others have proposed that personality is related to the psychedelic experience alluding to either personality change or personality being related to negative experiences (Leary et al. 1964; Eisner 1997; MacLean et al. 2011). We aim to draw on research from the first wave and the second wave to synthesize the research by discussing the findings in a common paradigm: the Five Factor Model. Given that personality and psychedelics has had mixed results, by synthesizing more than just five factor model research within the common language of the five-factor model we can see if certain trends become stronger, if certain trends have more variability then expected, or if new trends reveal themselves.
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