Thomas Verner Moore

Dom Thomas Verner Moore (October 22, 1877 – June 5, 1969) was an American psychologist, psychiatrist and monk.

He was the "first psychiatric researcher to create symptom rating scales and use factor analysis to deconstruct psychosis.

He then traveled to Leipzig, Germany, to study with Wilhelm Wundt before returning to the United States.

In 1910, at the University of California, Moore published "The Process of Abstraction", based on research he had begun while studying with Wundt.

from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, after which he worked as a psychiatrist with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I.