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How Margaret Mead's research into utopias helped usher in the psychedelic era

Pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead came of age in a time of enormous change and uncertainty. In the aftermath of World War I, as technologies like the radio and automobile began to take hold, ...
Wall Street Journal

Anthropology and the ‘Dark Side’ of Research

Dominic Green’s review of “Tripping on Utopia” by Benjamin Breen (Books, Feb. 10) goes beyond even the book in his claims about the lives and work of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. As directors of ...
AOL

Margaret Mead wanted to save the world through LSD. The government had other ideas

Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...
Psychology Today

Exploring Gregory Bateson's Impact on Systemic Thinking

"The schizophrenic has ‘learned’ to ‘live in a universe where the sequences of events are such that his unconventional communication habits will be in some sense appropriate’. His ‘disorder’ is part ...
insider.si.edu

The Individual, communication, and society : essays in memory of Gregory Bateson / edited by Robert Rieber

In search of the impertinent question : an overview of Bateson's theory of communication / Robert Rieber -- A reflection on Bateson's view of moral and national character / David Bakan -- The ...