A native of Ireland, JOSEPH MURPHY (1898-1981) was a prolific and widely admired New Thought minister and writer, best known for his motivational classic The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, an international bestseller since it first blazed onto the self-help scene in 1963. Murphy wrote dozens of other popular books and pamphlets on the auto-suggestive and metaphysical faculties of the human mind and is considered one of the pioneering voices of affirmative-thinking philosophy.