Jeffrey O Berman

Death in the Classroom: Writing about Love and Loss

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 be...

Writing Widowhood: The Landscapes of Bereavement

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 f...

Death Education in the Writing Classroom (Death, Value and Meaning Series)

Death is often encountered in English courses―Hamlet’s death, celebrity death, death from the terrorist attacks on 9/11―but students rarely have the opportunity to write about their own experiences with death. In Death Education in the Writing Classroom, Jeffrey Berman shows how college students can...

Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom

This is the final volume in a trilogy of works that examine the impact of writing and reading about traumatic subjects. Diaries to an English Professor (1994) explores the ways in which undergraduate students use psychoanalytic diaries to probe conflicted issues in their lives. Surviving Literary Su...

Cutting and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure

Cutting, a form of self-mutilation, is a growing problem in the United States, especially among adolescent females. It is regarded as self-destructive behavior, yet paradoxically, people who cut themselves generally do not wish to die but to find relief from unbearable psychological pain. Cutting an...

Dying in Character: Memoirs on the End of Life

In the past twenty years, an increasing number of authors have written memoirs focusing on the last stage of their lives: Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, for example, in The Wheel of Life, Harold Brodkey in This Wild Darkness, Edward Said in Out of Place, and Tony Judt in The Memory Chalet. In these and othe...

Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning

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 ...

Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillen

In 'Companionship in Grief,' Jeffrey Berman focuses on the most life-changing event for many people the death of a spouse. Some of the most acclaimed memoirs of the past fifty years offer insights into this profound loss: C. S. Lewis s 'A Grief Observed;' John Bayley s three memoirs about Iris Murdo...

The FORCE Program: The Proven Way to Fight Cancer Through Movement and Exercise

The Force Program : The Proven Way to Fight Cancer Through Physical Activity and Exercise

Narcissism and the Novel

The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis

The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis

Narcissism and the Novel

Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning

Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning