Background
Berman, Jeffrey was born on January 16, 1945 in New York City. Son of Isadore and Roslyn (Dranoff) Berman.
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Empathic Teaching: Education For Life by Berman, Jeffrey (2004) Paperback
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Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom: 1st (First) Edition
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Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning
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Affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief.
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Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom
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This book is a poignant study of the journals that students have written in Jeffrey Berman's college class on literature and psychoanalysis over the course of fifteen years. Introspective and ungraded, the diaries offer a unique glimpse into the personal world of students' lives.
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Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom
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This is the final volume in a trilogy of works that examine the impact of writing and reading about traumatic subjects. Diaries to an English Professor (1994) explores the ways in which undergraduate students use psychoanalytic diaries to probe conflicted issues in their lives. Surviving Literary Suicide (1999) investigates how graduate students respond to suicidal literature―novels and poems that portray and sometimes glorify self-inflicted death. In Risky Writing, Jeffrey Berman builds on those earlier studies, describing ways teachers can encourage college students to write safely on a wide range of subjects often deemed too personal or too dangerous for the classroom: grieving the loss of a beloved relative or friend, falling into depression, coping with the breakup of one's family, confronting sexual abuse, depicting a drug or alcohol problem, encountering racial prejudice. Berman points out that nearly everyone has difficulty talking or writing about such issues because they arouse shame and tend to be enshrouded in secrecy and silence. This is especially true for college students, who are just emerging from adolescence and find themselves at institutions that rarely promote self-disclosure. Recognizing the controversial nature of his subject, Berman confronts academic opposition to personal writing head on. He also discusses the similarities between the "writing cure" and the "talking cure," the role of the teacher and audience in the self-disclosing classroom, and the pedagogical strategies necessary to minimize risk, including the importance of empathy and other befriending skills.
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Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom by Berman, Jeffrey (2002) Paperback
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Joseph Conrad: Writing as rescue
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Hard Cover; Near Mint; Brown hard cover binding, spine with author, title, publisher in bright gilt. Tan illus. dust jacket with title & author in brown, NEAR MINT. Plain end papers, Published by Astra Books, 1977, Distributed by Twayne Publishers. A Conradian investigation with an interdisciplinary approach, combining literary criticism with psychobiography. A NEAR MINT copy. Hertford, NC. USA.
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Surviving Literary Suicide
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An exploration of the relationship between literature and life, this study examines the effect on readers of "suicidal literature"―novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify, the act of suicide. Beginning with a discussion of the growing incidence of suicide in American culture, Jeffrey Berman investigates the portrayal of suicide in the works of four authors who later took their own lives―Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton― and two who did not―Kate Chopin and William Styron. In each case Berman discusses the writer's shifting attitude toward suicide, the tendency of critics to romanticize fictional suicide, and the impact of writing about suicide on the artist's own life. At the same time, Berman draws on his experiences as a teacher of these writings, analyzing student reactions to "literary suicide" as recorded in class diaries―responses ranging from grief and confusion to anger and guilt. By looking at the connection between real and imagined suicide, Berman seeks to shed fresh light on a subject long enshrouded in silence, fear, and mystery.
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(Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom) Author: Jeffrey Berman published on (December, 1994)
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Surviving Literary Suicide by Berman, Jeffrey (1999) Paperback
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(Risky Writing: Self-disclosure and Self-transformation in the Classroom) Author: Jeffrey Berman published on (December, 2001)
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Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom 1st Printing edition by Berman, Jeffrey (2002) Paperback
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Empathic Teaching: Education For Life
(During the past decade, Jeffrey Berman has published wide...)
During the past decade, Jeffrey Berman has published widely on the pedagogy of personal writing. In Diaries to an English Professor (1994), he explored the ways in which undergraduate students can use psychoanalytic diaries to deal with conflicted issues in their lives. Surviving Literary Suicide (1999) investigated how graduate students respond to novels and poems that portray and sometimes glorify self-inflicted death. And in Risky Writing (2002), Berman considered the ways teachers can encourage college students to write safely on a wide range of subjects often deemed too personal or too dangerous for the classroom, from grieving the loss of friend to confronting sexual abuse. Empathic Teaching builds on that earlier work by showing how a pedagogy based on understanding the other can transform the experience of learning. Berman begins with a discussion of several well-known stories and films featuring literature instructors who exert a formative influence on their students, including Good-bye, Mr. Chips, The Blackboard Jungle, Up the Down Staircase, and Dead Poets Society. He then goes on to examine the pedagogical importance of empathy, trauma, and forgiveness in helping students cope with the ordinary and extraordinary challenges of everyday life. Subsequent chapters are devoted to an analysis of actual student writing―powerful, insightful, authentic essays about lived experience that reveal both intellectual and emotional growth. In the book's final chapter, Berman considers the risks and benefits of empathic teaching, demonstrating how teachers can play a therapeutic role in the classroom without being therapists. Teachers who are regarded as trusting, supportive, and dependable, he argues, become attachment figures, influencing students to be more sensitive to and connected with their classmates' lives. Or, as Berman succinctly puts it, empathic teaching leads to empathic learning, an education for life.
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(Surviving Literary Suicide) Author: Jeffrey Berman published on (June, 1999)
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Jeffrey Berman
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1967; Master of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1971.
Career
Assistant professor, associate Professor of English, U. Albany, New York, 1973-1986; Professor of English, U. Albany, since 1986.
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Surviving Literary Suicide
(An exploration of the relationship between literature and...)
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Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom
(This book is a poignant study of the journals that studen...)
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Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom
(This is the final volume in a trilogy of works that exami...)
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Joseph Conrad: Writing as rescue
(Hard Cover; Near Mint; Brown hard cover binding, spine wi...)
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Empathic Teaching: Education For Life
(During the past decade, Jeffrey Berman has published wide...)
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Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning
(Affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work...)
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The Talking Cure
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Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom by Berman, Jeffrey (2002) Paperback
(First Printing)
- Empathic Teaching: Education For Life by Berman, Jeffrey (2004) Paperback
- Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom: 1st (First) Edition
- Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom by Jeffrey Berman (1995-01-05)
- (Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom) Author: Jeffrey Berman published on (December, 1994)
- Surviving Literary Suicide by Berman, Jeffrey (1999) Paperback
- (Risky Writing: Self-disclosure and Self-transformation in the Classroom) Author: Jeffrey Berman published on (December, 2001)
- Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom 1st Printing edition by Berman, Jeffrey (2002) Paperback
- (Surviving Literary Suicide) Author: Jeffrey Berman published on (June, 1999)
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Surviving Literary Suicide
Connections
Married Barbara Kozinn, August 11, 1968. Children: Arielle, Jillian.
