Background
J. Křivohlavý was born on March 19, 1925, in Třebenice (Czechoslovakia).
educationist psychologist writer
J. Křivohlavý was born on March 19, 1925, in Třebenice (Czechoslovakia).
He studied on the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University, majoring in Psychology, Philosophy and Anglicistics. In 1950 he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy. In 1996 he was granted the title of Doctor of Science.
He dealt with health psychology, experimental psychology and logotherapy. He published a number of books on stress, aging, happiness and also forgiveness and its impact on human health. When he was 17, he was transported into the Nazi concentration camp in Terezin.
Later, during the communist regime, he was forced to work for three years in the Prago IV mine in Kladno.
Later, after his habilitation on the Masaryk University (Brno), the president of the Czechoslovakian Republic Václav Havel 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 patients, coronary patients and with the handicapped.
In those years, he gave lectures and published both in the Czechoslovakian republic and abroad. Later, he taught health psychology at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Charles University (Prague).
Křivohlavý had been married since 1951 and had three children.
Foreign five years he was a member of the Prague-region administration of the church and for 15 years (1969–1984) thrice elected as a lay 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 Uppsala general meeting of the WCC.