Eugene Taylor (psychologist)


Eugene Taylor was a scholar on William James and a professor of psychology at Saybrook University and Harvard University.

Biography

Taylor was educated at Southern Methodist University and Harvard Divinity School, and Boston University. He was the 1983 William James Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School.
Taylor died in 2013 and was the subject of many remembrances and obituaries. Taylor held the rank of yondan and was the founder the Harvard Aikido Club in 1981 and a shidoin in the United States Aikido Federation. In 1993 he founded the Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Comparative Religions; was a founding member of The New Existentialists; and was the Vice President of the Massachusetts Association of Swedenborgian Churches. Dr. Taylor was Senior Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Taylor was famous for the size and scope of his personal library of an estimated 8000 volumes.http://www.chronicle.com/article/Haunted-by-Spirits/234262

Publications

Books authored or edited by Taylor include