Father, Have I Kept My Promise?: Madness as Seen from Within (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557533630)

In 1937 Edith had received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna, and high recommendations from her famous teachers. Her career prospects looked bright indeed. But a year later, she was a refugee from Hitler's war on Jews. She left her Nazi-occupied homeland and immigrated to the United States in 1939. In the United States, she pursued her career in psychology as a professor at prominent universities as well as a clinical consultant for the State of Indiana. As a psychology professor at Purdue, she contracted tuberculosis and spent 1962-64 in a tuberculosis hospital. Before she was released, she began to experience instances of schizophrenia. In this condition, she taught at St. Mary-of the-Woods College in Terre Haute, Indiana, for a year. Just before her stay there was to end, a priest discovered her mental illness. All through her mental illness, she kept a diary chronicling her schizophrenic episode. Father, Have I Kept My Promise? is that diary-turned-book. Part of the book's charm is Edith's honesty-she does not bide anything from her reader.

Author: Edith Weisskopf-Joelson
ISBN-10: 1557533636
ISBN-13: 9781557533630
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2003
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.44d