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. == Bibliography ==