Lisa Bieberman and the Moral Challenge of LSD: Revising Harvard’s History of Psychedelics

Research Reflections // Center for the Study of World Religions

CSWR Psychedelics and Spirituality Program Lead Paul Gillis-Smith illuminates the work and life of Lisa Bieberman, a figure from the history of psychedelics at Harvard in the ’60s. Bieberman’s memoir offers an alternate history of psychedelics in Cambridge at the time and a moral challenge for the use of psychedelics.