Jaro Křivohlavý (19 March 1925 – 27 December 2014) was a

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and

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. He dealt with

health psychology Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. The discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and il ...

experimental psychology Experimental psychology is the work done by those who apply Experiment, experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ Research participant, human participants and Animal testing, anim ...

and

logotherapy Logotherapy is a form of existential therapy developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. It is founded on the premise that the primary motivational force of individuals is to find meaning in life. Frankl describes it as "the Third V ...

. He published a number of books on stress, aging, happiness and also

forgiveness Forgiveness, in a psychology, psychological sense, is the intentional and voluntary process by which one who may have felt initially wronged, victimized, harmed, or hurt goes through a process of changing feelings and attitude regarding a given ...

and its impact on human health.

Life

Křivohlavý was born on 19 March 1925 in Třebenice (

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). When he was 17, he was imprisoned by Nazis in Small Fortress in

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. Later, during the

communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...

regime, he was forced to work for three years in the Prago IV

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. He studied on the Faculty of Philosophy of the

Charles University Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in the world in conti ...

, majoring in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and Anglicistics. In 1950 he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy. In 1996 he was granted the title of

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. Later, after his

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on the

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) (; ) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno, it now consists of ten faculties and 35,115 students. It is named after To ...

(

Brno Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...

), the president of the

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Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissol ...

awarded him with the ''university professor'' degree. In 1967–1994 he worked in the Postgradual Medical Institute in Prague teaching medical doctors in their preparation for specializing in medicine, and working in the hospitals especially with

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving Cell growth#Disorders, abnormal cell growth with the potential to Invasion (cancer), invade or Metastasis, spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Po ...

patients,

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patients and with the

handicapped Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, ...

. In those years, he gave lectures and published both in the Czech Republic and abroad. Later, he taught ''health psychology'' at the Faculty of Humanities at the

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

. Křivohlavý was a

Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes Justification (theology), justification of sinners Sola fide, through faith alone, the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by unmerited Grace in Christianity, divin ...

, he was a member of the

Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB; , ČCE) is the largest Czech Protestant church and the second-largest church in the Czech Republic after the Catholic Church. It was formed in 1918 in Czechoslovakia through the unification of th ...

baptised Baptism (from ) is a Christians, Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water. It may be performed by aspersion, sprinkling or affusion, pouring water on the head, or by immersion baptism, immersing in water eit ...

and

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(1939), ordained

presbyter Presbyter () is an honorific title for Christian clergy. The word derives from the Greek ''presbyteros'', which means elder or senior, although many in Christian antiquity understood ''presbyteros'' to refer to the bishop functioning as overseer ...

and lay preacher. For five years he was a member of the Prague-region administration of the church and for 15 years (1969–1984) thrice elected as a

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member of the leading body of the whole church, the Synodal Counsel. In 1967 he was a member of the Church and Society WCC meeting in Geneve, and in 1968 an adviser to the

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general meeting of the WCC. Křivohlavý had been married since 1951 and had three children.

Bibliography

* Psychologie smysluplnosti existence (Grada Publishing, Praha, 2006) * O Šťastném manželství (Karmelitánské nakladatelství, Kostelní Vydří 2005) * Pozitivní psychologie (Portál, Praha 2004) * Jak přežít vztek, zlost a agresi (Grada Publishing, Praha 2004) * O odpouštění s Jaro Křivohlavým (Karmelitánské nakladatelství, Kostelní Vydří 2004) * Duševní hygiena zdravotní sestry (Grada Publishing, Praha 2004) * Konflikty mezi lidmi (Portál, Praha 2002) * Psychologie nemoci (Grada Publishing, Praha 2001) * Psychologie zdraví (Portál, Praha 2001) * Pastorální péče (Oliva, Praha 2000) * Jak neztratit nadšení (Grada Publishing, Praha 1998) * Jak zvládat depresi (Grada Publishing, Praha 1997) * Sdílení naděje (Návrat domů, Praha 1997) * Tajemství úspěšného jednání (Grada-Avicenum, Praha 1995) * Poslední úsek cesty (spolu s Mgr. S. Kaczmarczykem) (Návrat domů, Praha 1995) * Jak zvládat stres (Grada - Avicenum, Praha 1994) * Mít pro co žít (Návrat, Praha 1994) * Povídej - naslouchám (Návrat, Praha 1993) * Bolest, její diagnostika a psychoterapie (Praha, Institut pro další vzdělávání lékařů a farmaceutů, 1992) * Křesťanská péče o nemocné (Advent, Praha 1991) * Vážně nemocný mezi námi (Praha, Avicenum, 1989) * Jak si navzájem lépe porozumíme (Svoboda, 1988) * Neverbální komunikace (Praha, SPN, 1988) * Já a ty: O zdravých vztazích mezi lidmi (Avicenum, 1986) * Psychologická rehabilitace zdravotně postižených (Avicenum, 1985) * Zwischenmenschliche Konlikte und experimentelle Spiele (Hans Huber Verlag, Bern, 1973) * Metodika experimentálních her (Praha, UK FF, 1973) * Člověk a stroj: Úvod do inženýrské psychologie (Práce, 1970)

References

External links

Křivohlavý's personal web pages

Jaro Křivohlavý at Czechoslovak book network Baila.net
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