John E. Mack
| John E. Mack | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Edward Mack October 4, 1929 New York City, New York |
| Died | September 27, 2004 (aged 74) London, England |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | M.D. |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College, Harvard Medical School |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist, writer |
| Known for | Research into the effects of stories about alien abduction |
| Spouse(s) | Sally (Stahl) Mack |
| Children | Daniel, Kenneth, and Tony |
| Parent(s) | Edward C. Mack, Ruth P. Mack |
| Relatives | Mary Lee Ingbar (half-sister) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize |
| Website | The John E Mack Institute |
John Edward Mack M.D. (October 4, 1929 – September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor at Harvard Medical School. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, and a leading authority on the spiritual or transformational effects of alien abduction experiences.
Mack was born in New York City and graduated from the Horace Mann-Lincoln School in 1947. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin in 1951, and received his medical degree cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1955. He was a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and was certified in child and adult psychoanalysis.
The dominant theme of his life's work has been the exploration of how one's perceptions of the world affect one's relationships. He addressed this issue of "world view" on the individual level in his early clinical explorations of dreams, nightmares and teen suicide, and in A Prince of Our Disorder, his biographical study of the life of British officer T. E. Lawrence, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1977.
In the 1980s, Mack interviewed many international political figures as part of his research into the root causes of the Cold War, including former President Jimmy Carter and the "father of the hydrogen bomb", Edward Teller. Together with luminaries such as Carl Sagan, Mack and other Physicians for Social Responsibility (the US affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) promoted the elimination of nuclear weapons and an end to the simmering conflict between the United States and the USSR. Emboldened by the organization's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, Mack, Sagan, and 700 other academics walked upon the grounds of the Nevada Test Site in the summer of 1986, setting a civil disobedience record for that nuclear weapons testing facility.
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