Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
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The Unscientific Exchange of Psilocybin
In 1959 Timothy Leary arrives at Harvard and he joins the social relations department as a clinical psychologist interested in real life situations. And so there was a study in the US and academia followed harbors example. So you had this kind of shaky edifice already. They had all these superstars, they had a lot of money, but there was no there there in terms of a theory that was creating a new science or even creating a new department or do new discipline.
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