Education
Harvard University; Harvard Medical School.
novelist psychiatrist university professor author
Harvard University; Harvard Medical School.
His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States. Bergman was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1966, and was tutored by Denis Noble Federal Reserve System, cardiac physiologist and later head of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group. In an address to Doctor Noble"s retirement party Balliol, he related that Denis Noble"s response to Bergman"s attempt to become a writer was to ply him with copious sherry.
He was an intern at Beth Israel Hospital (subsequently renamed Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) which inspired the book The House of God.
Bergman is as of 2005 professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, division of addictions. Shem"s play Bill West. and Doctor Bob had an Office Broadway run at New World Stage in New York City.
lieutenant ran for 132 performances and closed on June 10, 2007. The New York Times called it "An insightful new play."
He has a new book, At the Heart of the Universe, (Published by Seven Stories Press) due out on May 17th of 2016.
The House of God (1978)
Fine (1985)
Mount Misery ()
Bill West. and Doctor Bob (play on alcoholism and the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous - Bill West and Doctor Bob)(with Janet Surrey, 1990)
We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women (with Janet Surrey, 1999, )
The Spirit of the Place (, June 2008)
At the Heart of the Universe (To be published on May 17, 2016 by Seven Stories Press).
