Harvard Psilocybin Project records, circa 1961-1962 | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

Title: Harvard Psilocybin Project records, circa 1961-1962

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Predominant Dates: 1961-1962

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The Harvard Psilocybin Project memos, reports and meeting minutes (1 folder; circa 1961-1962) documents the therapeutic use of psilocybin on inmates at the Concord Prison with Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, George Litwin, James Ciarlo, Mike Kahn, Gunther Weil, and Timothy Leary.

Provenance: This collection of mimeographed papers are from the Timothy Leary Archives and were given by the Executors of the Leary Estate (Futique) to Michael Horowitz in partial payment for his performing an appraisal of the Leary Archives in 2008.

Other URL: http://lib.purdue.edu/spcol/fa/pdf/harvard_pp.pdf