Sandra L. Bertman's Books

Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.

Helps you explore and share your personal responses to dissection. This book shows the anatomy cadaver as a bridge spanning the chasm that lies between ignorance, darkness, and death on one side and knowledge, health, and life on the other.

This work draws upon material from the visual arts, poetry, fiction, drama, and pop-culture to help lead the reader to a heightened awareness of the universal nature of the issues that face the dying and those who care for them. The author argues.

For nearly three decades, Sandra Bertman has been exploring the power of the arts and belief--symbols, metaphors, stories--to alleviate psychological and spiritual pain not only of patients, grieving family members, and affected communities but also of the nurses, clergy and physicians who minister to them. Her training sessions and clinical interventions are based on the premise that bringing out the creative potential inherent in each of us is just as relevant-- perhaps more so--as psychiatric theory and treatment models since grief and loss are an integral part of life. Thus, this work was compiled to illuminate the many facets that link grief, counseling, and creativity. The multiple strategies suggested in these essays will help practitioners enlarge their repertoire of hands-on skills and foster introspection and empathy in readers.

It is our hope that this slim volumethis collection of words and images created by the medical students at University of Massachusetts during the last thirty years (and augmented by Meryl Levins documentary photographs of students from Weill Medical College of Cornell University and their journal entries written in 1998 and published in Anatomy of Anatomy)will provide you with what good doctors provide for their patients: catharsis, personal insights, and support.

Book's by Sandra L. Bertman

Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions

Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions

One Breath Apart

One Breath Apart

Facing Death

Facing Death

Grief and the Healing Arts

Grief and the Healing Arts

One Breath Apart

One Breath Apart

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