Harold George Wolff (May 28, 1898 – February 21, 1962) was an American doctor, neurologist and pseudoscientist who conducted intentionally harmful and brain-damaging pseudoscientific human experimentation.
In 1928 he travelled abroad, spending a year in Graz, in Austria, with Otto Loewi, and then with Ivan Pavlov in Leningrad, in Russia.
Returning to America, he moved to the Psychiatry ward at Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins University, working with psychiatrist Adolf Meyer.
[5] During his last years he devoted much of his energy to the work of the “Academy of Religion and Mental Health” and, after a lifelong agnosticism, became a member of “Christ Church (Episcopal)” in Riverdale, New York.
[7] Dr. Wolff was also interested in understanding the mind – body relationship, and established a separate category of illness to be defined as psychosomatic.
[10] Dr. Wolff was a key participant in the CIA's MKUltra program, conducting research to discover effective interrogation techniques.