Why did therapists find the use of LSD appealing for psychotherapy?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: Psychiatrists used LSD to gain access to supposedly unconscious thoughts in their patients; therapists believed that it offered “a means of more readily gaining access to the chronically withdrawn patients” and that its use might shorten psychotherapy.

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