John Edward Mack (New York City, October 4, 1929 - London, September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School, who gained international recognition with his biography of T.E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder (1976), awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1977.
As a socially committed doctor, he was a member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and he established the Center for Psychology and Social Change in 1983, which was renamed in John E. Mack Institute after his death. As a psychiatrist, in addition to his work in the field of dissociative and borderline awareness states, he has become particularly familiar with his intense, in some academic circles, vehement controversial research into the experiences of people claiming to be abducted by aliens, non-human beings .
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