Doctor Psycho illness (ranging from mild obsessiveness to full-blown insanity), possessing a diminutive stature, and harboring a misogynistic hatred of women. The character of Doctor Psycho was created by William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman and author of her original adventures. Marston, a psychologist, created Doctor Psycho as a murderous psychopath with an intense hatred of women. The character was partly inspired by actor Lon Chaney ("Man of a thousand faces") and partly by Marston's undergraduate advisor Hugo Münsterberg, who was opposed to women's suffrage and feminism, and was into metaphysics. Doctor Psycho was also one of several villains created for
Elizabeth Holloway Marston the polygraph test. In 1921, William received his PhD from Harvard and Marston her MA from Radcliffe. Although Marston is not listed as William's collaborator in his early work, a number of writers refer directly and indirectly to Elizabeth's work on her husband's deception research. She appears in a picture taken in his polygraph laboratory in the 1920s, reproduced in a 1938 publication by William. Marston's career included indexing "the documents of the first fourteen Congresses, lectur[ing] on law, ethics, and psychology at American and New York Universities, [and] serv[ing] as an editor for "Encyclopædia Britannica" and "McCall's". In 1933,