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Secret Wounds
"Richard Berlin's poetry collection explores, from a psychiatrist's perspective, emotional territory of doctors' relationships with patients who suffer physically and emotionally from cancer, dialysis, cardiac treatment, etc., and their relationships to music, family, death, and human hearts; through fears and triumphs that come as a result, he reveals these secret wounds a physician endures"--Provided by publisher.
Poets on Prozac
In this collection of 16 essays, poets discuss psychiatric treatment and their work. Poets on Prozac shatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse. The sixteen essays collected here address many provocative questions: Does emotional distress inspire great work? Is artistry enhanced or diminished by mental illness? What effect does substance abuse have on esthetic vision? Do psychoactive medications impinge on ingenuity? Can treatment enhance inherent talents, or does relieving emotional pain shut off the creative pro...
Freud on My Couch
Poetry. In FREUD ON MY COACH; Richard M. Berlin's fourth collection of poems; the poet continues to explore the emotional and psychological terrain at the heart of medical and psychiatric practice from a revealing; insider's perspective. His poems allow readers to consider their own lives from the viewpoint of someone familiar with the inner workings of our bodies and minds; someone conversant with the invisible processes of life and death. The poet's voice is one of sensitive and vivid tenderness as he touches on themes of intimacy; love; the relationship between doctor and patient; the drama of psychotherapy; Sigmund Freud and his addictions; and the satisfactions that come from a life of healing. In this collection of poems; Richard M. Berlin confirms that medical and psychiatric practice fit well with Pablo Neruda's description of poetry: "Entrance into the depth of things in a headlong act of love."
Building
In the period covered here Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President (and is assassinated); Berlin dines with JFK on the day he is told of the Soviet missile bases in Cuba; the Six-Day Arab-Israeli war of 1967 creates problems that remain with us today; Richard M. Nixon succeeds Johnson as President and resigns over Watergate; and the long agony of the Vietnam War grinds on in the background. At the same time Berlin publishes some of his most important work, including Four Essays on Liberty--the key texts of his liberal pluralism--and the essays later included in Vico and Herder. He appears on the radio, on television, and in documentary films, and gives numerous lectures, especially his celebrated Mellon Lectures, later published as The Roots of Romanticism. Behind these public events is a constant stream of gossip and commentary, acerbic humor, and warm personal feeling. This new volume leaves no doubt that Berlin is one of the very best letter-writers of the 20th century.
On Her Majesty's Berlin Mission
British Army intelligence officer Ian Black finds himself in Berlin, just as it is heating up during the Cold War, in the latest historical military thriller from bestselling authors Richard and Barbara Osborn. For the past few years, Lieutenant Ian Black has plied his trade during the Cyprus Emergency of the 1950's. Now, in Berlin, he is almost trapped in the communist part of the city, with a female acquaintance, when the Berlin Wall is suddenly erected by the East Germans, on a Sunday morning. After hearing from a dying man on the U-Bahn that there is a traitor somewhere in the West, Ian comes up with an ingenious plan to catch a mole and a swallow lurking in a West Berlin organization. H...
Tender Fences
Richard M. Berlin's fifth collection of poems, TENDER FENCES, spans the arc of the poet's career as a doctor and psychiatrist. Beginning with his family's hopes and expectations, and his own dream to become a doctor, Berlin explores the challenges of medical and psychiatric training, his years of practice, and the deep rewards that grow from healing relationships structured by a "tender fence" which provides the necessary boundaries for closeness and distance. Berlin's voice touches on themes of intimacy, love, the doctor-patient relationship, the drama of psychotherapy, a doctor's sense of responsibility, transience, aging, and the satisfactions that come from a healer's life. With these poems, Richard M. Berlin confirms that medical and psychiatric practice fit well with Pablo Neruda's description of poetry as, "Entrance into the depth of things in a headlong act of love."
Practice
"A twenty first century William Carlos Williams." -Booklist "Berlin's writing sheds all doctrines and poses. He seems to me to be a person who is living his whole life in an effort to find something, which can never be located or described. In one of those beautiful passages that left me breathless, Berlin writes, 'a doctor becomes/like a man who has spent sixty years/on a lobster boat, watching the world/swim fast and shining, right before his eyes.' These lines, like much of Berlin's poetry, seem to be about the revelation that emerges at the edge between our knowledge of the world, provided to us by science or maturation, and the chaotic understructure that throws up in front of us surpri...
A Debate on Jewish Emancipation and Christian Theology in Old Berlin
When wealthy Jewish industrialist David Friedländer proposed in 1799 that Berlin's Jews undergo a sham conversion to Christianity in return for full German citizenship, he touched off a political and theological debate that would continue to define the relation between Jewish and German identity for more than a century. In the series of provocative letters collected here, Friedländer, Protestant leader Wilhelm Abraham Teller, and young Christian theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher debate Friedländer's radical proposal. In so doing, they grapple with many of the thorny problems--such as citizenship, religious tolerance, and assimilation--that continue to vex world political leaders today. Richard Crouter's Introduction provides the cultural, religious, and historical context for this compelling exchange; a postscript by Julie Klassen reveals the ways in which Germany's minorities continue to be marginalized more than two hundred years after Friedländer made his passionate appeal for political liberty and human rights.
