{"id":25509,"date":"2010-04-21T12:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/the-death-of-jesuit-psychoanal\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:12:22","slug":"the-death-of-jesuit-psychoanal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/the-death-of-jesuit-psychoanal\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of Jesuit psychoanalyst, Fr William W. Meissner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/William%20Meissner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William Meissner.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/William Meissner-thumb-75x75-6227.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>I haven&#8217;t seen him in nearly 7 years, but I was very sad to hear of the death of Jesuit Father William W. Meissner, 79, the other day. A New York Province Jesuit priest who was trained as a psychiatrist at Harvard, Bill was a great man in my mind with lots of quirks, probably too many to speak of. Bill was the sort of man who didn&#8217;t suffer fools gladly; he was one of those Jesuits who worked very hard and play well but didn&#8217;t do pastoral work. His life as a priest is was dedicated to the ministry of research and teaching. All the same, I loved being on vacation with Bill and I remember fondly our many serious conversations. When I studied in Boston in the early 1990s he gave a series of lectures on the psychology of Saint Ignatius of Loyola which I attended and found incomprehensible; the lectures eventually became a book,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ignatius-Loyola-Psychology-Meissner-S-J\/dp\/0300060793\"> <\/a><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ignatius-Loyola-Psychology-Meissner-S-J\/dp\/0300060793\">Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint<\/a>,<\/i> you may have seen it. I have to admit that psychoanalyzing a dead saint is a bit weird &#8211;with or without a couch&#8211; but fascinating nonetheless because we got a glimpse into the heart and mind of terrific saint.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourtown\/brookline\/articles\/2010\/04\/21\/rev_william_meissner_taught_psychoanalytics_at_harvard_bc\/\">Bill&#8217;s obit<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May Bill Meissner&#8217;s memory be eternal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen him in nearly 7 years, but I was very sad to hear of the death of Jesuit Father William W. Meissner, 79, the other day. A New York Province Jesuit priest who was trained as a psychiatrist at Harvard, Bill was a great man in my mind with lots of quirks, probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/the-death-of-jesuit-psychoanal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The death of Jesuit psychoanalyst, Fr William W. Meissner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}