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'''John Edward Mack''' (October 4, 1929, New York, New York–September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist and author who won the 1977 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for biography with ''A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E Lawrence,''<ref>{{citation
 | publisher = Little, Brown
 | year = 1976
 | author = John E. Mack
 | title =  A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E Lawrence}}</ref> but was best-known to the general public as an investigator of supposed abductions by aliens in [[unidentified flying objects]]. This research, as well as his public statements concerning it in his later years, became controversial because of his position at [[Harvard Medical School]] and was not always met with acceptance by officials at [[Harvard University]]. Following the publication of his 1990 book, ''Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens''. the university, for the first time in its history, launched an investigation of the work of a tenured professor.<ref>{{citation
 | date = 8 June  2005
 | title = Alien thinking
 | author = Angela Hind
 | journal = BBC
 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4071124.stm}}</ref> After much controversy in faculty circles, Mack retained his tenure.

In his various areas of interest, he used a [[transpersonal psychology]], which includes the possibility of non-ordinary realities; this is consistent with his observations that abductions might be spiritual rather than physical. <blockquote>the physical world and all its laws represent only one of an indeterminable number of possible realities whose qualities we can only begin to apprehend through the evolution of our consciousness. In this view, consciousness pervades all realities and is the primary source or creative principle of existence, including the energy-matter of the physical world.<ref>{{citation
 | title = Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision
 | editor = Frances Vaughn, Roger Walsh ''et al.'' 
 | contribution = Foreword 
 | author = John E. Mack, M.D.
 | url = http://www.johnemackinstitute.org/ejournal/article.asp?id=76
 | publisher = Tarcher | year = 1993
}}</ref></blockquote>

Mack graduated from [[Oberlin College]] in 1951, received his medical degree from Harvard in 1955, and then graduated from the [[Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute]]. He joined the Harvard Medical Facility in 1964 and became a medical professor in 1972. He served in the [[U.S. Air Force]] from 1959 to 1961.