Summary of Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Nine years ago, Richard Alpert, an assistant professor in clinical psychology at Harvard University, nearly flunked out of college. But he was the one who wanted to be a psychologist, not his father. He was accepted into medical school, but he refused it. He wanted to be a psychologist.
#2 Richard Alpert, the author, was a professor at Stanford University. He was also gay, and he struggled to hide that fact during his time there.
#3 In the late 1950s, Alpert was working at Harvard and finishing up a research project at Stanford. He had almost gotten used to dividing his life between an East Coast and West Coast existence. But when he was offered a job at Harvard, he took it.
#4 Alpert was a professor at Harvard, and he had a close friendship with one of his students, Jim Fadiman. Fadiman was a virgin, and he didn’t think of himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. But his roommate seemed to be interested in all of those things.

Sujets

• Homosexualité
• Homosexuality
• Homosexualité
• Philosophers
• Lettres et linguistique
• Philosophy
• Biography
• Autobiography
• Sexualité
• sexualité
• Sexualité

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822520820
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

Nine years ago, Richard Alpert, an assistant professor in clinical psychology at Harvard University, nearly flunked out of college. But he was the one who wanted to be a psychologist, not his father. He was accepted into medical school, but he refused it. He wanted to be a psychologist.

#2

Richard Alpert, the author, was a professor at Stanford University. He was also gay, and he struggled to hide that fact during his time there.

#3

In the late 1950s, Alpert was working at Harvard and finishing up a research project at Stanford. He had almost gotten used to dividing his life between an East Coast and West Coast existence. But when he was offered a job at Harvard, he took it.

#4

Alpert was a professor at Harvard, and he had a close friendship with one of his students, Jim Fadiman. Fadiman was a virgin, and he didn’t think of himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. But his roommate seemed to be interested in all of those things.

#5

Richard’s life was fairly content, but he was alienated and depressed. He ate more, collected more possessions, and collected more appointments and positions. He was the professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to his every word. But he felt the horror that he didn’t know.

#6

On his thirty-fifth birthday, Timothy Leary woke up to find a note on his wife’s pillow. It read, My darling, I cannot live without your love. I have loved life, but through you. The children will grow up wondering about their mother. I love them so much and please tell them that.

#7

Timothy Leary was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on October 22, 1920. He liked to say that he was conceived the day after Prohibition was enacted in the United States. His life began, in utero, on the night of January 27, 1920. His father, a dentist and a captain in the U. S. Army at West Point, didn’t let the new law against alcohol get in the way of his drinking.

#8

TimLeary, like Alpert, didn’t have the grades to get into an Ivy League school, so he went off for a Jesuit education at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. He was kicked out of West Point in 1941 for getting drunk following the Army–Navy football game.

#9

In the 1950s, psychologists began to shift away from religious counseling and toward psychotherapy. The practice of psychology was changing in the 1960s and 1970s, andLeary was becoming involved.

#10

The author’s name is Timothy Leary, and he is best known for his book The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality, which presented a statistical analysis of data collected from hundreds of patients in group therapy sessions. It challenged the prevailing psychological theory of the time, behaviorism.

#11

Barron had some good news for Leary: he had run into one of their colleagues, Professor David McClelland of the Harvard Center for Personality Research, who had just read The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality. He offered Leary a job back at Harvard.

#12

Andy Weil was born in Philadelphia in 1942. He grew up with a love of growing flowers, and this would blossom into a lifelong interest in botany. He would later build a successful career around the idea that what one sees in their mind can actually change physical reality.

#13

Weil learned that consuming alcoholic beverages was the socially accepted way to alter one’s state of consciousness. He didn’t discover a real alcoholic high until his senior year in high school, when he started going to weekend drinking parties.

#14

Andy had a profound experience when he was seventeen, and he was convinced that American culture and science was clueless about the rest of the world. He came home convinced that much of American culture and science was clueless about the rest of the world.

#15