The Talking Cure

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares the poem "The Talking Cure" by Jack Coulehan, the titular poem of Coulehan's new book The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems. Before he retired, Coulehan practiced primary care medicine at Stony Brook University and directed the medical school's programs in ethics and humanities. He is the author of 7 collections of poetry.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 26 years in Psychiatric 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 Tender Fences.