Katherine Benziger
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Katherine Benziger is founder and owner of KBA, LLC, a Human Resources company based in the Greater Saint Louis Area.[1] She received a Master of Science (MS) degree in Strategic Planning in June 1971 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after completing the two year MS program there. She has three decades of teaching and research in psychology.
Education[edit]
She holds a PhD in psychology focused on neurophysiology and a Master of Science. She created the Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment (BTSA) and its electronic version (eBTSA).[2]
Family history[edit]
Benziger comes from a long line of authors, scholars, and teachers. She is the daughter of Prof. Jim Benziger who taught English at Southern Illinois University and received the Best Teacher's Award from SIU students. He wrote Images of Eternity: Studies in the Poetry of Religious Vision from Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot.[3]
An aunt, Barbara Field Benziger, was noted for her best-selling works, The Prison of My Mind (1969) and Speaking Out (1976), personal explorations of mental health issues and involuntary commitment to mental hospitals which she experienced.
Katherine is also the great-granddaughter of the “Unsinkable” Molly Brown (Margaret Brown) and was interviewed in the documentary about Molly Brown’s life.[4]
The Benziger Brothers Publishing House was founded in 1792 by Joseph Charles Benziger, a direct ancestor of Katherine Benziger. It became the exclusive printers of books for the Vatican during the papacy of Pius IX and was given the title “Printers of the Holy See” in 1867. In 1908, they published A Textual Concordance of the Holy Scriptures: Arranged Especially for Use in Preaching which is still in print. The firm is publishing books today for the Catholic audience under the name RCL Benziger.
Publications[edit]
- Thriving in Mind: The Natural Key to Sustainable Neurofitness
- The BTSA User Manual: A Guide to the Development, Validation and Use of the Benziger Thinking Styles; 2nd edition.
- Physiological and Psycho-physiological Bases for Jungian Concepts
- Falsification of Type: Its Jungian and Physiological Foundations & Mental, Emotional and Physiological Costs
- Overcoming Depression
- Thriving in Mind: The Workbook
References[edit]
- ↑ National Directory of Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals (New York: The Exclusive Executive Directory, 1997), p. 29
- ↑ Janet I. Newcomb, “The Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment: A Useful Tool for Coaches and Clients,” pp. 261-266 in Coaching for the New Century, ed. by Leland E. Pound. CA: Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, 2004.
- ↑ James Benziger, Images of Eternity: Studies in the Poetry of Religious Vision from Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962.
- ↑ Molly Brown: Biography of a Changing Nation, a documentary film written and directed by Jim Havey. CO: Havey Productions, 2007.
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