Joseph F. Rychlak (1928-2013)

Joseph Frank Rychlak was born on December 17, 1928 and passed away on April 16, 2013. Joe's major contributions to psychology vary widely, as mentioned, but they are all carefully connected to a rigorously humanistic understanding of the person. It may be stretching it to use the phrase "one of the last grand theorists" to describe him and his contribution to psychology. There are still many important living theorists in the field. However, it is not an exaggeration to use the term "grand" because Rychlak's work is nothing if not subsuming, spanning not only the personality and psychotherapy literatures but also works on cognition, humanism, and the philosophy of science. Throughout his long and productive examination of these ideas, Joe remained a man of the highest integrity, vision, and caring.