Project Mind Control

Reckless Doses

Project Mind Control

Show Notes

A self portrait triggers a young woman to be sent for psychiatric treatment, forever changing her life. Alyssa Ryvers tells the story of her mother Carol — a patient of Dr. Heinz Lehmann, the man who revolutionised psychiatry with a drug he found in a journal while sitting in his bathtub. But was he helping his patients?

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