Henry A. Murray (1893-1988)

Abstract

Henry A. (Harry) Murray, organizer and primary author of Explorations in Personality = = w (Murray et al., 1938) and, with his long-time partner and collaborator Christiana Morgan, deviser of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), was a humanistic psychologist on the grand scale. Since he felt alienated from the irrationalistic, antiscientific aspects of the humanistic psychology movement when it became substantially captured by the counterculture of the 1960s, and therefore limited his participation, probably rather few HENRY A. MURRAY participants in humanistic psychology remember that along with other major figures in the founding generation ofAmerican personality psychology (Allport, Murphy, and Kelly), Murray was part of the Old Saybrook Conference of 1964 that launched the so-called Third Force of humanistic psychology. His name remained on the masthead of this journal until his death on June 23, 1988.

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