Christiana Morgan

[1] Despite the societal constraints on women's education at the time, Morgan became self-taught and later served as co-director, researcher, and lay analyst at the Harvard Psychological Clinic.

Her early career involved volunteering as a nurse during World War I and the 1918 pandemic, experiences that deeply influenced her later work in psychology.

Jung considered her a "pioneer woman" and manifestation of the perfect feminine (une femme inspiratrice), and a crucial source of material for his theories on the archetypal basis of the unconscious.

Despite Jung’s admiration, he struggled to see how a woman of her time could be the primary creative force and came to view her role as that of a muse to powerful men, a perception that overshadowed her substantial intellectual contributions.

Murray stated in 1985, "Morgan asked to have her name removed as senior author of the 1943/1971 TAT because she disliked the obligation of making the academic responses".

[citation needed] At the clinic, Morgan and Murray conducted pioneering research on personality and the imagination, influencing generations of psychologists.

Her primary biographer, Dr. Claire Douglas, highlighted Morgan's vision of a female self that challenged male-invented definitions, contributing to a third force in psychology that bridged Freudian and behaviorist approaches.

Filled with her carvings, paintings, and stained-glass windows, the tower embodies her exploration of the unconscious and her intellectual and sexual relationship with Henry (Harry) Murray.

She drowned in two feet of water while vacationing with Henry (Harry) Murray at Denis Bay, Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands on March 14, 1967.

It’s there that one can find not only her books, but the symbolic expression of her creativity and inner life, from intricate and complex wood carvings to stained glass windows and hand painted mandalas.