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In this collection of discursive essays Nathan Adler attempts to use psychological insight to illuminate the drug scene and counterculture movements of the sixties. The main thesis of the essays, written during the sixties and early seventies, is that in times of transition and crises there arises from the underground stream the “antinomian personality”—a personality which rejects established values, develops an apocalyptic sense, prefers intuitive ways of knowing, seeks fusion and unity, supports