Biography of Murray

He received a biological and medical education in Harvard Bachelor, Columbia Master,; Doctor of Medicine, and Cambridge Universities. He worked as a physiology teacher at Harvard University and a doctor at the New York Presbyterian hospital, an assistant professor of embryology at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research at the same time worked in the Cambridge biochemical laboratory, England, and here on biochemical issues defended his doctoral dissertation, at that time he had a pronounced interest in psychology.

With the years, Murray is a teacher of Harvard University, a professor of a professor from a year, from a year - an associative professor in a Harvard psychological clinic. Psychology was held by F. Aleksander and X. Zakhsa left Harvard in the year to enter the military service, worked in the US Strategic Services Department on the program for the development of situational tests for stress resistance, again returned to Harvard, where he occupied the department in a psychological clinic.

He founded his own psychological clinic Annex at Harvard University. For some time he worked according to the CIA programs. Of particular importance for world psychology were the development of G. Murray in the field of theory and diagnosis of personality.

Its personology, based to a large extent on the work of 3. Freud about the early children's fixations and complexes and including the modified concepts of the I, it, super-I, was aimed primarily at the analysis of individual manifestations. Unlike Z. Freud and A. Adler, he introduced a large number of basic needs, where, along with primary, or vital, needs, secondary psychogenic, characteristic of man, were distinguished.

In his book, the study of the personality »Exploration in Personality. Y, er al. The list of needs compiled by G. Mürrey a little later included needs such as the needs for achieving, respect, communication, order, in attracting attention, independence, protection, assistance, internal analysis, help, dominance, humiliation, change, patience, an individual of another sex, aggression, play murray n A.

Cambridge, Mass. The “thematic apperceptive test” was initially oriented to identify these motives, in the future, on the basis of this list, the “List of Personal Preference” by A. Edvars and the “form of personality to study” D. Murray were one of the first to consider the motives as sustainable personal dispations. Thanks to this approach, Murray had an influence on modern interaclonism.

He conducted a cycle of research on the definition of the influence of demanding conditions on perception, in particular, it revealed that children who recently survived a state of fear are inclined to perceive people in photographs as more evil than they were perceived earlier developed a number of methods for studying personal needs, including the world -famous “thematic apperceptive test” of tat, which was based on his list of needs and depressing circumstances Thematic Apperception Test: Manual.

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