Managing Suggestibility in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Psychology Today | 08.07.2026 03:58
Suggestibility is “the propensity to respond to suggested communication” (Schumaker, 2026, p. 3). This entails a tendency to adopt others’ ideas, beliefs, attitudes, or actions uncritically (APA, n.d.)—thus leaving people feeling vulnerable by bypassing their critical thinking, as their capacity to separate fact from fiction is compromised.
