Poetry

Creative Corner

Artistic works by psychiatrists, most notably the Poetry of the Times column by Dr Richard Berlin and creative endeavors by others.

Poetry

Psychiatrist Baseball Cards

Richard M. Berlin, MD

April 14, 2014 | Poetry

By Richard M. Berlin, MD

I’d love to create a new set every year, our glossy portraits on one side, caduceus in the corner, honors, cure rates, and publications on the back...

Words Heal: Coping With Cancer

Richard M. Berlin, MD

March 25, 2014 | Couch in Crisis, Depression, Poetry, Psychotherapy

By Richard M. Berlin, MD

When a full-time writer's husband was diagnosed with cancer, she found writing poetry helped her cope. She guessed that others would, like her, find their experiences with cancer best expressed through poetry. So began The Cancer Poetry Project.

Data Point

Richard M. Berlin, MD

March 04, 2014 | Poetry

By Richard M. Berlin, MD

Three years deep in despair, he’s swallowed every pill I prescribed...

X-Ray Vision

Richard M. Berlin, MD

February 21, 2014 | Poetry

By Richard M. Berlin, MD

Under the V of her cashmere sweater, sacs of silicone sag in tangled scar, their arc of cleavage a triumph...

Doctor Dumpling

Richard M. Berlin, MD

January 17, 2014 | Poetry

By Richard M. Berlin, MD

If I could be edible, I would want to be a steamed vegetable dumpling, pure white like my doctor’s coat…

Modern Medieval Artist

Richard M. Berlin, MD

December 10, 2013 | Poetry

By Richard M. Berlin, MD

While I watch the artist paint, I imagine him in the time of plague crafting a portrait of a Medico della Peste, a Plague Doctor wearing an ibis-like mask...

Suicide Rates

Richard M. Berlin, MD

November 04, 2013 | Poetry

By Richard M. Berlin, MD

In the graph, bands of color recede like mountain silhouettes drawn by a child...

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Words Heal: Coping With Cancer
Richard M. Berlin, MD
March 25, 2014 | Couch in Crisis, Depression, Poetry, Psychotherapy
By Richard M. Berlin, MD
When a full-time writer's husband was diagnosed with cancer, she found writing poetry helped her cope. She guessed that others would, like her, find their experiences with cancer best expressed through poetry. So began The Cancer Poetry Project.

Last Concert of the Summer (Podcast)
Richard M. Berlin, MD
December 12, 2012 | Poetry
By Richard M. Berlin, MD
I place a stethoscope in my ears and listen to the heart when I’ve run out of things to say.
Playing in the Band (Podcast)
Richard M. Berlin, MD
December 06, 2012 | Poetry
By Richard M. Berlin, MD
"A hundred people dancing so hard they’ve thrown off their shoes . . ."
Our Medical Marriage (Podcast)
Richard M. Berlin, MD
November 16, 2012 | Poetry
By Richard M. Berlin, MD
—for SusanneWe kneeled on the bookstore floortwo students scanning the bodiesof new books, checking outeach other's Principlesof Internal Medicine.Scores of textbooks laterwe're a pair of pagers and missed dinners,companions in sleep-deprived nights.We suffered the long delaybefore our only child while we ranto slashed wrists and ODs,sprinted from half-read journalto school play to board meeting.In conversation long as summer lightwe talked patients and drugs,recited the simple prayers of dying,learned how we both took medicineas a life-long lover.One hushed June evening in mid-lifescented rose and thick with fire-flies,the phone steals her.I sit with my half-filled glass
What a Psychiatrist Remembers (Podcast)
Richard M. Berlin, MD
October 26, 2012 | Poetry
By Richard M. Berlin, MD
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