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