Timothy Leary's mid-career shift: clean break or inflection point?
Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences January 1, 2012 David C Devonis 4 citations
Timothy Leary, a cultural icon of the 1960s, has been largely overlooked in the history of psychology, partly because his career shift toward psychedelic experimentation and dismissal from Harvard in 1963 made him seem to have left the field. However, examining his full career and intellectual influences reveals unacknowledged continuities with psychology, suggesting he deserves a more prominent place in the discipline's history and that his work poses important challenges.