Eugene Kennedy

Eugene Cullen Kennedy ( born August 18, 1928 in Syracuse (New York)) was a professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago, the chairman of the local Clinical Psychiatry Department and a former priest. He has written many books about psychology, religion written their intersections, as well as some literary works.

Life

Eugene Kennedy was born as the son of James Donald Kennedy and Gertrude Veronica Cullen, Irish immigrants in the second generation. In 1946 he moved to Chicago. There he received in 1950 at the Maryknoll College in Bachelor of of Arts. At the Maryknoll Seminary in 1953, he received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1954 and a Master of Religious Education. Kennedy entered the Maryknoll missionary order and was ordained priest on 11 June 1955. He taught at Maryknoll College of 1955-1956. Then he began his studies in psychology at the Catholic University ( Catholic Theological Union), where in 1958 he received his Master of Arts in 1962 and his Ph.D. obtained. He returned to the Maryknoll College and taught there until 1969 psychology. Then he started at the Fakultär for market success psychology at Loyola University Chicago to teach.

The mid-1960s he was because of a dangerous pericarditis in the hospital, where she learned the Maryknoll nun and psychiatrist Sara Charles know and they became friends. A few years later, Kennedy head of a priest trial and Charles has worked with the Committee. For about a decade they lived celibate with deep friendship. The mid-1970s, the pressure on Charles was greater because their superior demanded that they should give up their psychiatric practice and should take care of the Order to the medical needs of the older nuns. In October 1976, she sued a former patient who was permanently maimed after a failed suicide attempt, to $ 10 million. During this time, began a new phase in the relationship between Kennedy and Charles. In 1977 he was laicized and in September 1977 he married Sara Charles. Three years later, her case went to court and she was completely relieved.

Kennedy were many Catholics in 1965 his first book, The Genius of the apostolates known, which he co-wrote with William D' Arcy. For his second book Fashion Me a People, which appeared in 1967, he received the Catholic Book Award. He received the same award for his 1968 published third book, Comfort My People. Together with his wife he wrote Defendant, which was published in 1985. His first novel Father's Day, he published in 1981. She was honored by the Chicago Literary Society with the Carl Sandburg Prize for Fiction. His piece I Would be Called John is based on John XXIII .. In 1978 he published with Himself! a biography of the former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.

In all, he wrote 39 non-fiction books, primarily on Catholic issues and psychology, as well as Chicago, three novels, a play and countless articles.

Publications

Non-fiction books (selection)

  • ( with William D' Arcy ): The Genius of the Apostolate, 1965
  • 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
  • Will and tires of the priest in the light of psychology, Räber, Lucerne 1967

Short Stories

  • Father's Day 1981
  • Queen Bee, 1982
  • Fixes, 1989

Play

  • I Would be Called John
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