On Psychedelics: A Really Good Day With Ayelet Waldman and Deborah Copaken

When Ayelet Waldman’s depression has become intolerable, severe and unmanageable, she turns to a new remedy: psychedelic drugs.

In doing so she becomes part of a burgeoning underground group of scientists and everyday people successfully using therapeutic micro doses of LSD. As Waldman charts her experience over the course of a month, during which she achieved a newfound feeling of serenity, she also explores the history and mythology of LSD, the cutting-edge research into the drug, and the byzantine policies that control it.

Drawing on her experience as a federal public defender, and as the mother of teenagers, and her research into the therapeutic value of psychedelics, Waldman’s exploration of this fascinating subject is candid, revealing, and completely enthralling.

A book signing follows the event.