Award-winning author Dr. Kenneth P. Price grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts to parents who were immigrants from Europe. His parents, Hillel and Miriam, became teachers and inculcated in Dr. Price his lifelong love of learning, reading and writing. After graduating from high school, he spent a year studying at the Hebrew University and the Hayyim Greenberg Institute in Jerusalem. He studied with Israel’s national poet, Yehuda Amichai and Israeli novelist Aharon Apelfeld, who had survived the Holocaust as a child. He took his first course in psychology at the Hebrew University, which led him to decide to major in psychology in college. As this course had been taught in Hebrew, he spent his first year in college translating in his head lecturers’ psychological terms from English to Hebrew and back to English. He graduated Magna cum Laude with honors in psychology. His senior’s honors thesis was published in a psychology journal. After graduation, he was awarded a Herbert Lehman Fellowship, one of only two awarded in psychology that year in New York. He attended graduate school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from which he received his Ph.D. Summers, he worked in a factory fabricating plastic bags, in a hospital as an orderly, as camp counselor, as a research assistant to psychology professors and later as a lecturer at CW Post College on Long Island. His first job after getting his degree was as a psychologist at the Northport VA hospital. After his wife, Gloria finished her Ph.D. degree at Stony Brook, they moved to Texas to work at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Dr. K. Price taught medical and psychology graduate students while Dr. G. Price headed a research project on drug abuse. Dr. K. Price left academia to go into independent practice. His wife retired to raise their children, until she went back to work in the financial industry. The Dr.’s Price wrote two books together aimed at professors teaching Abnormal Psychology to undergraduate students. Dr. Kenneth Price is the author of some two dozen scientific articles in Psychology and Medical journals. He is an avid student of human nature, politics and history. He has evaluated over 300 U.S. Veterans for psychological injuries they incurred during their service. Dr.’s Price enjoy their two children and four grandchildren.
Separated Together
Learn about history through the lens of this inspirational, award-winning account that serves as a powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit.
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