Writing the Talking Cure
(May 2019)
Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of Psychotherapy Jeffrey Berman - Author
Explores Yalom’s profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature.
A distinguished psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Irvin D. Yalom is also the United States’ most well-known author of psychotherapy tales. His first volume of essays, Love’s Executioner, became an immediate best seller, and his first novel, When Nietzsche Wept, continues to enjoy critical and popular success. Yalom has create...(Read More)
Writing Widowhood
(November 2015)
The Landscapes of Bereavement Jeffrey Berman - Author
Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery.
The death of a beloved spouse after a lifetime of companionship is a life-changing experience. To help understand the reality of bereavement, Jeffrey Berman focuses on five extraordinary American writers—Joan Didion, Sandra Gilbert, Gail Godwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, and Joyce Carol ...(Read More)
Death in the Classroom
(January 2009)
Writing about Love and Loss Jeffrey Berman - Author
Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.
In Death in the Classroom, Jeffrey Berman writes about Love and Loss, the course that he designed and taught two years after his wife’s death, in which he explored with his students the literature of bereavement. Berman, building on his previous courses that emphasized self-disclosing writing, shows ho...(Read More)
Dying to Teach
(January 2007)
A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning Jeffrey Berman - Author
Affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief.
In Dying to Teach, Jeffrey Berman confronts the most wrenching loss imaginable: the death of his beloved wife, Barbara. Through four interrelated narratives—how Barbara wrote about her illness in a cancer diary, how he cared for her throughout her illness, how his students reacted to his disclosure that she was dying, and how he responded to her d...(Read More)
