Editing Timothy Leary (section)

== Professorship ==
Leary stayed on in the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] as an assistant clinical professor of medical psychology at the [[University of California, San Francisco]]; concurrently, he co-founded Kaiser Hospital's psychology department in [[Oakland, California]], and maintained a private consultancy.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XP02AQAAMAAJ&q=%22timothy+f.+leary%22+%22university+of+california,+san+francisco%22&pg=RA4-PA24 |title=Announcement of the School of Medicine - Fall and Spring Semesters, 1950 - 1951 |publisher=University of California Medical Center |access-date=May 19, 2014 |year=1950}}</ref>{{efn-ua|name=The Friday Project|{{harvnb|Higgs|2006|p=18}}: "In 1954 he became Director of Psychology Research at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital, and published nearly 50 papers in psychology journals."}} In 1952, the Leary family spent a year in Spain, living on a research grant. According to Berkeley colleague Marv Freedman, "Something had been stirred in him in terms of breaking out of being another cog in society."{{sfnp|Greenfield|2006|pp=68–77}}

Leary's marriage was strained by infidelity and mutual [[alcohol abuse]]. Marianne eventually died by suicide in 1955, leaving him to raise their son and daughter alone.<ref name="Mansnerus" /> He described himself during this period as "an anonymous institutional employee who drove to work each morning in a long line of commuter cars and drove home each night and drank [[martini (cocktail)|martinis]] ... like several million middle-class, liberal, intellectual robots".<ref name=Torgoff>{{cite book |last=Torgoff |first=Martin |title=Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-3010-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cantfindmywayhom00torgo/page/72 72] |url=https://archive.org/details/cantfindmywayhom00torgo/page/72}}</ref>{{sfnp|Leary|Ginsberg|1995|p=4}}

From 1954{{efn-ua|name=The Friday Project}} or 1955 to 1958, Leary directed psychiatric research at the [[Kaiser Family Foundation]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gIU3AAAAMAAJ&q=kaiser |title=Current Biography - Volume 31 |publisher=H. W. Wilson Company |access-date=January 8, 2016 |year=1970 }}</ref> In 1957, he published ''The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality'', which the ''[[Annual Review of Psychology]]'' called the "most important book on psychotherapy of the year".{{sfnp|Stevens|1983|p=186}}

In 1958, the [[National Institute of Mental Health]] terminated Leary's research grant after he failed to meet with a NIMH investigator. Leary and his children relocated to Europe, where he attempted to write his next book while subsisting on small grants and insurance policies.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Conners |first1=Peter |title=White Hand Society - The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg |publisher=City Lights Books |year=2010 |isbn=9780872865358 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780872865358/page/22 22] |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780872865358/page/22 }}</ref>{{sfnp|Stevens|1983|p=187}} His stay in [[Florence]] was unproductive and indigent, prompting a return to academia.

In late 1959, Leary started as a lecturer in clinical psychology at [[Harvard University]] at the behest of Frank Barron (a colleague from Berkeley) and [[David McClelland]]. Leary and his children lived in [[Newton, Massachusetts]]. In addition to teaching, Leary was affiliated with the Harvard Center for Research in Personality under McClelland. He oversaw the Harvard Psilocybin Project and conducted experiments in conjunction with assistant professor [[Richard Alpert]]. In 1963, Leary was terminated for failing to attend scheduled class lectures, though he maintained that he had met his teaching obligations.<ref name="termination" /> The decision to dismiss him may have been influenced by his promotion of psychedelic drug use among Harvard students and faculty. The drugs were legal at the time.{{sfnp|Stevens|1983|p={{page needed|date=July 2021}}}}

Leary's work in academic psychology expanded on the research of [[Harry Stack Sullivan]] and [[Karen Horney]], which sought to better understand interpersonal processes to help diagnose [[personality disorder|disorders]]. Leary's dissertation developed the interpersonal circumplex model, later published in ''The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality''.{{sfnp|Leary|1957}} The book demonstrated how psychologists could use [[Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory]] (MMPI) scores to predict how respondents might react to various interpersonal situations. Leary's research was an important harbinger of [[transactional analysis]], directly prefiguring the popular work of [[Eric Berne]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Timothy Leary, Pied Piper Of Psychedelic 60's, Dies at 75 |newspaper=New York Times |date=June 1, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/01/us/timothy-leary-pied-piper-of-psychedelic-60-s-dies-at-75.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=January 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208134906/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/01/us/timothy-leary-pied-piper-of-psychedelic-60-s-dies-at-75.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=She Comes in Colors |magazine=Playboy |publisher=HMH Publishing Company Inc. |date=September 1, 1966}}</ref>