"Tune in, turn on, drop out"
LEARY, Timothy. Multilevel Measurement of Interpersonal Behavior. Berkeley: Psychological Consultation Service. 1956.
4to. Original printed wrappers; pp. vii, 110 ; diagrams and graphs in the text; wrappers a little bit spotted and discoloured in places with minimal curling to bottom edge of front wrapper.
First edition of the scarce first work from a 60s counterculture hero.
Timothy Leary was an assistant professor at Berkeley between 1950 and 1955 and later a lecturer in Psychology at Harvard. He was fired in 1963 for his iconic pioneering of psychedelic drugs, eventually becoming known as the 'high priest of LSD'. This, Leary's first book before Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality, was published just a year after the suicide of his first wife during a time when he was, in his own words, 'an anonymous institutional employee who drove to work each morning in a long line of commuter cars and drove home each night and drank martinis…like several million middle-class, liberal, intellectual robots". Timothy Leary would go on to become a leading, historical champion of the 'Psychedelic Renaissance'; with his famous catchphrase, "Tune in, turn on, drop out"….
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