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Kathleen Fitzgerald

Born: 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio
Pen Name: Kathleen Whalen FitzGerald

Connection to Illinois: Fitzgerald resides in Lake Forest, IL.

Biography: Fitzgerald was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The oldest of four children in an Irish Catholic Family, FitzGerald attended local public and parochial schools. Shortly after completing high school, she joined the convent and taught elementary school in the Chicago and Fort Wayne area. AFter thirteen years, she decided to leave religious life in 1969. Fitzgerald is now a professional counselor and specializes in addictions and codependency issues. She has treated both men and women who have been sexually abused by clergy. In 1988 she founded the Institute for Recovery. Located in Lake Forest, Illinois, the Institute provides professional therapy for abuse, dysfunction, addictions, family trauma, sexual trauma and co-dependency. A popular public speaker at workshops and seminars, Fitzgerald has published several books, including ''Brass: Jane Byrne and the Pursuit of Power'', ''The Good Sisters'' and ''Alcoholism: The Genertic Inheritence''. Her articles and essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including ''Newsweek'', ''Men's Health'', ''The Chicago Tribune'', and ''Professional Counselor''. Fitzgerald holds an M.A. in Classics form DePaul University and a Ph.D. in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: http://www.whalestalepress.com/biography_fitzgerald_kathleen.html
Kathleen Fitzgerald on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kathleen+fitzgerald


Selected Titles

Alcoholism :
ISBN: 1882195019 OCLC: 28586191

Whales' Tale Press, Lake Forest, Ill. : ©1993.

Brass, Jane Byrne and the pursuit of power /
ISBN: 0809270064 OCLC: 7278835

Contemporary Books, Chicago : ©1981.

Jellinek's disease :
ISBN: 1882195051 OCLC: 53867640

Whales' Tale Press, Lake Forest, Ill. : ©2003.

  The good sisters
ISBN: 1882195043 OCLC: 50791796

Whales' Tale Press, Lake Forest, Ill. : 2002.

The good sisters /
ISBN: 0809258625 OCLC: 7614629

Contemporary Books, Chicago : ©1981.

 

 

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