Eugene Kennedy (psychologist)

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Eugene Kennedy

Eugene Cullen Kennedy (born August 18, 1928 in Syracuse (New York) - † June 3, 2015 ) was an American psychologist , author and former priest . He was a professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago and headed the clinical-psychiatric department there. Kennedy was the author of many non-fiction books on psychology and religion and their context and some literary works.

Life

Eugene Kennedy was born in 1928 to James Donald Kennedy and Gertrude Veronica Cullen, second generation Irish immigrants. In 1946 he moved to Chicago . There he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Maryknoll College in 1950 . At Maryknoll Seminary, he received a bachelor's degree in theology in 1953 and a master's degree in religious education in 1954 . Kennedy entered the Maryknoll Missionary Order and was ordained a priest on June 11, 1955. He taught at Maryknoll College from 1955 to 1956. He then began studying psychology at the Catholic University of America , where he received a Master of Arts in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1962. received. He returned to Maryknoll College, where he taught psychology until 1969, before teaching at the Faculty of Clinical Psychology at Loyola University Chicago .

In the mid-1960s, he was in hospital because of a dangerous pericardial inflammation, where he met the Maryknoll nun and psychiatrist Sara Charles and became friends with her. A few years later, he led a priestly study in which Charles participated. The two lived celibate in deep friendship for about a decade . In the mid-1970s, Charles came under pressure when her matron demanded that she give up her psychiatric practice and attend to the medical needs of the elderly nuns in the Order. In October 1976 she sued a former patient who was permanently harmed after a failed suicide attempt for $ 10 million. During this time a new phase began in the relationship between Kennedy and Charles. In 1977 Kennedy was laicized , whereupon the two married in September of the same year. Three years later, Charles was completely exonerated in the lawsuit brought against her.

Kennedy became known to many Catholics in 1965 through his first book, The Genius of the Apostolate , which was also translated into German and which he wrote together with Paul F. D'Arcy. For his second book Fashion Me a People (1967) he received the Catholic Book Award . He received the same award for his third book Comfort My People , published in 1968 . With his wife he wrote Defendant , which was published in 1985. He published his first novel Father's Day in 1981. He was awarded the Carl Sandburg Prize for Fiction by the Chicago Literary Society . His piece I Would be Called John is based on the life of John XXIII. In 1978 he released Himself! a biography of former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley .

He wrote a total of 39 non-fiction books, primarily on Catholic topics and psychology as well as Chicago, three novels, a play and many newspaper articles.

Publications

Non-fiction books (selection)

  • (with Paul F. D'Arcy): The Genius of the Apostolate , 1965
    • German edition: Becoming and Maturing the Priest in the Light of Psychology , Räber, Lucerne 1967
  • Fashion Me a People , 1967
  • Comfort My People , 1968
  • (with Sara Charles): Defendant , 1985
  • In the Spirit, In the Flesh , 1971
  • The Return to Man , 1973
  • Believing , 1974
  • Living With Loneliness , 1974
  • On Becoming a Counselor , 1977
  • Sexual Counseling , 1977
  • St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Daley , 1976
  • Himself! The life and times of Mayor Richard J. Daley , 1978
  • Authority: the most misunderstood idea in America , Free Press, New York 1997

Literary works

  • Father's Day , 1981
  • Queen Bee , 1982
  • Fixes , 1989
  • I would be called John

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ingrid H. Shafer: Odd Man Out: A Modern Morality Play ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1995 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usao.edu
  2. ↑ Eugene Cullen Kennedy
  3. ↑ a b c d Eugene C. Kennedy Papers ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notre Dame Archives  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archives.nd.edu
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kennedy, Eugene Cullen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Syracuse (New York)
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 2015