Timothy Leary

1920–1996

2 standalone books

Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating exploration of psychedelic drugs' therapeutic potential under controlled conditions. As a Harvard clinical psychologist, he led the Harvard Psilocybin Project (1960-62), was fired in May 1963 with colleague Richard Alpert, and became a counterculture figure known for phrases like "turn on, tune in, drop out"; he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 36 prisons worldwide, and Richard Nixon called him "the most dangerous man in America."

Born

1920