Clark Moustakas

Clark E. Moustakas (26 May 1923 – 10 October 2012) was an American psychologist associated with humanistic and clinical psychology. He was involved in establishing the Association for Humanistic Psychology and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and was affiliated with the Michigan School of Psychology (formerly the Center for Humanistic Studies).

Biography Born into a Greek family in Detroit, Michigan, Moustakas received his doctorate in Educational and Clinical Psychology at Columbia University in 1949, after which he joined the faculty at the Merrill-Palmer Institute at Wayne State University.

In 1962, he participated in the formation of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. In 1980, he co-founded the Center for Humanistic Studies (CHS) with Cereta Perry, Ph.D., Bruce Douglass, Ph.D., and Diane Blau, Ph.D., which was renamed the Michigan School of Professional Psychology (MiSPP) in 2006, and subsequently the Michigan School of Psychology (MSP) in 2018.

Moustakas died on 10 October 2012 at his home in Farmington Hills, Michigan, at the age of 89.