eBooks - Health & Self Improvement - Psychology - Timothy Leary - Politics of Self-Determination
Politics of Self-Determination eBook
by Timothy Leary
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Politics of Self-Determination Summary
| THE POLITICS OF SELF-DETERMINATION spotlights Timothy Leary's bedrock work that preceded LSD and "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out." Even as a graduate student Leary pushed the envelop to develop a ground-breaking theory of personality that became a significant catalyst which sparked and shaped the human growth movement-"The New Age." Rooted in interpersonal dynamics, Leary's personality theory postualtes that we develop interpersonal reflexes to reduce anxiety. These reflexes pull predictable responses from other people. Leary says "sickness rules"-when two people interact, the sicker person determines the relationship. THE POLITICS OF SELF-DETERMINATION slows Leary's views on personal freedom when he was a young psychologist and how they evolved and morphed by the end of his career. Nestled here and there are glimpses of the attitudes that propelled him and the strategies he used to get arund the system to pursue his research. |
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