Father Have I Kept My Promise?

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. <i>Father Have I Kept My Promise?</i> is that diary-turned-book. Part of the book's charm is Edith's honesty-she does not bide anything from her reader.