Henry A. Murray completed his undergraduate studies in history at Harvard in 1915.

More
than a decade later, with graduate degrees in medicine and biology from Columbia
University, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, and an expansive
understanding of Carl Jung’s method of psychoanalysis, Murray was ideally suited to run
the Harvard Psychological Clinic, which he did as its director from 1928 – 1937.

In addition to practicing psychoanalysis at the clinic, Murray directed a research program

investigating the constituent elements of personality (e.g. emotions, preferences, behavioral
tendencies and relational characteristics). The results, Explorations in Personality, were
published in 1938. Murray was also a founder of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society.

In 1938 Murray was recruited by the U.S. government to create a psychological profile of
Adolph Hitler. He left Harvard temporarily to serve in the U.S. Army during the Second
World War, working with American intelligence agencies to help assess the psychological
fitness of their agents.

After the war, Murray returned to Harvard; he became a tenured lecturer in 1947, and
Professor of Clinical Psychology in 1951. From 1948-1952, he worked with colleagues at
the Psychological Clinic to apply and improve the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), a
projective test used to assess an individual's personality and self-understanding. The TAT
has been used in numerous studies in personality and motivation, and is still used widely
today as a screening tool for employers.

Murray was a central figure in the interdisciplinary Department of Social Relations (which
later was folded into the Department of Psychology). He strongly advocated research into
human personality that incorporated multiple methods to capture as many facets of an
individual as possible. As both a teacher and a researcher, Murray had a profound influence
on his colleagues and students. He retired from Harvard in 1962.

In 1976, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive was founded at Radcliffe College to honor
the multidisciplinary principles of Murray’s work in personality theory.

Henry Murray, in full Henry Alexander Murray, (born May 13, 1893, New York, New York,
U.S.—died June 23, 1988, Cambridge, Massachusetts) Henry A. Murray died
from pneumonia at 95

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In 1916, Murray married Josephine at of aged 23 , and after seven years of marriage, in
1923, he met and fell in love with Christiana Morgan. He experienced a serious conflict as
he did not want to leave his wife, Josephine.

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