Changing Attitudes to Psychedelic Drug Assisted Therapy: The Induction of Empathy to Enhance Community Support for Innovative Interventions in Mental Health

Abstract

Experiment to demonstrate change in attitudes to the use of drug enhanced therapy in the treatment of mental illness, using the induction of empathy in the social infliuence process. The data showed tPohe enhancement of empathic concern, willingness to aid a client and heighten the client's responsibility for change