Background
Finney, Joseph Claude Jeans was born on March 18, 1927 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Son of Claude Lee and Margaret Ellen (Boillin) Finney.
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Finney, Joseph Claude Jeans was born on March 18, 1927 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Son of Claude Lee and Margaret Ellen (Boillin) Finney.
Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1946; postgraduate, U. Notre Dame, 1947; Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1949; postgraduate, University of California at Berkeley, 1950-1951, 52-53; Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1959; Bachelor of Laws, LaSalle U., 1972; postgraduate in law, University Kentucky, 1972-1975.
Medical intern, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1949-1950;
resident physician, United States Veterans Administration Hospital., Palo Alto, California, 1953-1956;
director, Champaign County Mental Health Center, 1956-1960;
chief research, Hawaii State Mental Health System, 1960-1963;
associate professor psychiatry, U. Kentucky, 1963-1967;
professor educational psychology, U. Kentucky, 1967-1977;
director psychology curriculum, Liberal Catholic Institute Studies, Ojai, California, 1977-1980;
director continuing education, American Institute Higher Studies, since 1977;
president, Finney Institute for Study Human Behavior, since 1977;
director research in psychiatry, Loyola University of Chicago, 1980-1983;
chief psychiatry and psychology, United States Army Hospital, Fort Ord, California, 1983-1987. Consultant unites states department Justice, 1967-1979, United States Social Security Administration, 1967-1980, California Bureau Prison Terms, since 1987. National chaplain members-at-largeLiberal Catholic Church in the United States, 1979-1987, secretary, treasurer National Chapter Priests,1987-1991.
Delegate International Liberal Catholic Synod, 1976, 81. President Computer Assisted Professional Services, since 1986. Member of advisory board American College Forensic Psychiatry, 1987-1988.
Delaware Libertarian Party National Convention, 1977, 79. Secretary Kentucky Libertarian Party, 1979-1980. Nominee Electoral College, 1980.
Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Public Health Service, 1951-1953, colonel United States Army, 1983-1987. Fellow American Psychiatric Association, American College Forensic Psychiatry (advisory board 1987-1988), American Psychological Association, American College Legal Medicine, American Anthropological Association. Member American Bar Association (vice chairman law and psychiatry liaison committee 1973-1976, 80-81, chairman 1976-1980, vice chairman medicine and law committee 1979-1981), Linguistic Society of America, Science Society Study Religion, Religious Research Association, Polynesian Society, Science Society Study of Sex, American Association Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (director 1981-1983), Veterans of Foreign Wars, Mensa, Phi Beta Kappa.
Club: Kiwanis.
Married Mary Littlefield, January 21, 1955. Children: Carol, Michael, John, Ellen.