Harold A. Abramson
1899-1980
New York allergist and early LSD researcher whose laboratory at Mount Sinai and Cold Spring Harbor was funded in part through the CIA’s MKULTRA program.
Harold Alexander Abramson was a New York physician who built his reputation on research into asthma and eczema before becoming one of the first Americans to study the effects of LSD. He worked at Mount Sinai Hospital and at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, and edited conference volumes on LSD in psychotherapy.
His LSD work was funded in part through the CIA’s MKULTRA program, and he was the physician called in after the death of Frank Olson in 1953. In 1954 Margaret Mead joined sessions run by his group, as recorded in Margaret Mead’s LSD memo, where she spells his name “Abrahamson.”
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Notes and references
- “Dr. Harold A. Abramson Is Dead; Authority on Allergy and Asthma,” New York Times, October 1980.
- Harold A. Abramson papers, Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library.