21 Facts About Henry Murray

Henry Alexander Murray was an American psychologist at Harvard University.

Henry Murray developed a theory of personality called personology, based on "need" and "press".

Henry Murray was a co-developer, with Christiana Morgan, of the Thematic Apperception Test, which he referred to as "the second best-seller that Harvard ever published, second only to the Harvard Dictionary of Music".

Henry Murray received his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1928, aged 35.

In 1916, Henry Murray married at age 23 to Josephine Lee Rantoul.

In 1927, at the age of 33, Henry Murray became assistant director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic.

Henry Murray collaborated with Stanley Cobb, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at the Medical School, to introduce psychoanalysis into the Harvard curriculum but to keep those who taught it away from the decision-making apparatus in Vienna.

In 1937, Henry Murray became director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic.

In 1938 Henry Murray acted as a consultant for the British Government, setting up the Officer Selection Board.

In 1943 Henry Murray helped complete Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler, commissioned by OSS boss Gen.

From late 1959 to early 1962, Henry Murray was responsible for unethical experiments in which he used twenty-two Harvard undergraduates as research subjects.

The unwitting undergraduates were submitted to what Henry Murray called "vehement, sweeping and personally abusive" attacks.

In 1960, Timothy Leary started research in psychedelic drugs at Harvard, which Henry Murray is said to have supervised.

Some sources have suggested that Henry Murray's experiments were part of, or indemnified by, the United States government's research into mind control, known as the MKUltra project.

In 1962, shortly after the death of his wife, Henry Murray became emeritus professor, and earned the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association and the Gold Medal Award for lifetime achievement from the American Psychological Foundation.

Henry Murray later married Caroline "Nina" Fish, a child psychologist at Boston University and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, who had been a former student of Jean Piaget.

Henry Murray was a leading authority on the works of American author Herman Melville and amassed a collection of books, manuscripts and artifacts relating to Melville which he donated to the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Henry Murray's system of needs is an important part of the personological system.

Henry Murray viewed an individual's entire life as one unit, and pointed out that although a specific element of a person's life can be studied through psychology, this studied episode gives an incomplete picture of the entire life unit.

Henry Murray divided personology into five principles: Cerebral physiology, rooted in the brain, governs all aspects of personality.

Henry Murray was portrayed by Brian d'Arcy James in Manhunt: Unabomber, a 2017 docudrama miniseries created by Andrew Sodroski, Jim Clemente, and Tony Gittelson.