Marvin K. Opler (1914-1981) was professor of social psychiatry and professor of sociology and anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was for many years editor of The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, and was associate editor of the American Anthropologist. He was also editor and co-author of Culture and Mental Health, and co-author of Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Mid-town Manhattan Study and Impounded People.