Summary of Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 Nine years ago, Richard Alpert, an assistant professor in clinical psychology at Harvard University, nearly flunked out of college. But he was the one who wanted to be a psychologist, not his father. He was accepted into medical school, but he refused it. He wanted to be a psychologist.

#2 Richard Alpert, the author, was a professor at Stanford University. He was also gay, and he struggled to hide that fact during his time there.

#3 In the late 1950s, Alpert was working at Harvard and finishing up a research project at Stanford. He had almost gotten used to dividing his life between an East Coast and West Coast existence. But when he was offered a job at Harvard, he took it.

#4 Alpert was a professor at Harvard, and he had a close friendship with one of his students, Jim Fadiman. Fadiman was a virgin, and he didn’t think of himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. But his roommate seemed to be interested in all of those things.