Profiles Roland Griffiths as a professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at Johns Hopkins and founding director of its Center on Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, tracing his upbringing in New York and California, his psychology degree from Occidental College, and his 1972 PhD from the University of Minnesota, and quoting a colleague's remark that he changed the world for the better.
Abstract
He was a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center on Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. Griffiths lived a remarkable and consequential life. As one young physician scientist said upon hearing of his death: he changed the world for the better. Roland Griffiths was born in Glen Cove, New York, and grew up in the Bay Area in California. After earning a degree in psychology at Occidental College, Griffiths moved to the University of Minnesota, where he received a PhD in 1972.