Rebecca Lemov, "A New History of the Concord Prison Experiment: Psychedelics, Trauma, and Reformation"
Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 12 PM to 1:15 PM
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- Brown University, Cogut Institute, Andrews House
1 Prospect St, Providence, RI 02912 (Providence) - Tags
- talkscience
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Between 1961 and 1963, faculty and graduate students of the Harvard Psychedelics Project undertook an experiment in "behavior change" by giving psilocybin to 34 prisoners at the Concord MCA, a maximum-security prison then the oldest in Massachusetts. The project was innovative in its structure: the
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