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Purdue University Press - Father, have i kept my promise?: madness as seen from within, paperback/edith weisskopf-joelson

Purdue University Press

Purdue University Press - Father, have i kept my promise?: madness as seen from within, paperback/edith weisskopf-joelson

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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.

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