“If You Ask Me My Name”

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares his poem "If You Ask Me My Name," which was originally featured in the May 2001 issue of Psychiatric Times.

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Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 years in the Psychiatric Times™ “Poetry of the Times” column. He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.