Word: psilocybin
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...March 25, 1962, that members of the Cen- ter for Research in Personality, the department at which Leary worked, were disputing the right of Leary and fellow psychologist Richard Alpert, then-assistant professor of clinical psychology at the Graduate School of Education, to continue to conduct experiments with psilocybin...
According to Pierce Professor of Psychology Robert Rosenthal, who joined Harvard's faculty in 1962, Leary suggested that the students in his introductory graduate course in clinical psychology use psilocybin to garner "insights" into the human psyche...
Maher said yesterday that Leary's method of research included administering psilocybin to graduate students at informal settings, including parties...
Maher said Leary and Alpert knew little about the side effects of psilocybin and were not trained in pharmacology...
...whole message was one of personal irresponsibility in the guise of freedom," said Efrem Sigel '64, a Crimson editor who covered much of the psilocybin debate. "He was an authority figure who abused his authority...