|Videos|June 17, 2022

"The Algebra of Kindness"

"And we laughed again because he made us feel safe and loved, even when we stumbled, his calculated goal to teach us how to solve for X when X equals kindness."

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares his poem "The Algebra of Kindness," featured in the 2022 June issue of Psychiatric Times™.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 24 years inPsychiatric Times™ in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.


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