NY, Ronald Press Company, (1957). Leary's first book, written while he was Director of Psychology Research at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland, California. The book was voted the best book on psychotherapy in 1957 by the American Psychological Association, and was immediately recognized as a landmark: among other things, Leary's book argued that "individual character functions as an inextricable part of a larger social network," an insight that was later crucial in his experiments with the use of psychedelic drugs in psychotherapy and psychological treatment, and also with his non-academic experiments with such drugs. The accolades Leary received after the publication of this book led directly to his being offered a teaching position at Harvard, where he taught from 1959-1963. Leary left academia to pursue an iconoclastic path as an avatar of the counterculture in the 1960s, and a prominent advocate of the use of psychedelic drugs for insight. This book has the small ownership stamps of O.W. Lacy, a longtime professor of psychology at Franklin and Martin College, on the front pastedown and lower page edges, otherwise this is a fine copy in a lightly spine-sunned, near fine dust jacket. An important book, with distinguished provenance, seldom found in dust jacket, especially in this condition. [#027940] SOLD

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