Abstract · Crying in children and adults is often a communication or social signal that elicits understanding, care, attention and most of all compassion from others. Its background may include a variety of reasons, such as hopelessness, physical pain, an expression of empathy; a particularly positive event, and not least loss. Its importance in our culture is also highlighted by the sayings and proverbs associated with it. Once, when someone died, it was appropriate to cry. In some cultures, it is accepted and expressed, while in others crying because of grief is repressed and treated as a taboo subject.

Abstract ♦ Following the diagnosis of serious, life-threatening incurable illnesses, patients often develop various psychiatric pathologies such as depression or existential anxiety often develop. This group of patients is very difficult to treat effectively. Psychedelics and psychotherapy, which have been increasingly studied in recent years, may be a solution to this problem. Such substances include LSD and psilocybin, which are hallucinogenic drugs. In this article I will summarise the methods and results of experiments with these substances, mainly through two clinical trials. The experimental experience has shown that the therapy has performed extremely well, both in terms of safety and efficacy. Approximately 70 percent of patients showed long-lasting antidepressant, anxiolytic effects and improvement in quality of life, but all patients reported subjective positive mental effects. Many trials are still needed to ensure that the drugs are completely safe to use, but they appear very promising in this patient group.