# Jeffrey Berman, PhD, on Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Writing

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Published: 2026-04-03T19:08:22+00:00
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To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Jeffrey Berman's primary teaching and research interests are in literature and psychoanalysis, the twentieth century novel, trauma theory, suicide, self-disclosing writing and pedagogy. Berman, Jeffrey (1985). The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis. Berman, Jeffrey (1990). Narcissism and the novel. Berman, Jeffrey (2012). Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning. Berman, Jeffrey (2019). Writing the Talking Cure: Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of Psychotherapy. Berman, Jeffrey; Mosher, Paul W. (2019). Off the tracks: cautionary tales about the derailing of mental health care. Berman, Jeffrey (2021). The art of caregiving in fiction, film, and memoir. Berman, Jeffrey (2022). Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Psychoanalytic Memoirs. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis. We hope you enjoy this conversation. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

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