# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-metzner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:19:50.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-metzner"
name: "Ralph Metzner"
slug: "ralph-metzner"
description: "Ralph Metzner was a German-born American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Metzner was a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president."
tagline: "German psychologist (1936–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_Metzner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-05-18"
deathDate: "2019-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ralph Metzner"
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    title: "Ralph Metzner"
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    title: "Ральф Мецнер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump