Carol W. Berman is at home in both fiction and nonfiction. She wrote a monthly column on mental health for the Huffington Post, and several of her short stories have been published in literary magazines. In addition, she served on the editorial board of The Bellevue Literary Review. Her sci-fi inspiration comes from reading Ursula K. Le Guin and Isaac Asimov as a kid.Berman grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and NYU Medical School. Her residency in psychiatry was spent at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. In 1986, she accepted a research fellowship at NYU Langone Medical Center, where she is a clinical assistant professor in psychiatry. She is also in private practice in New York City.As a preeminent member of the medical community and Life Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Berman is that rare and courageous physician who is not afraid to draw upon her own artistic and intuitive powers to enhance her scientific approach and engage her patients and readers in a deeper level of healing and self-empowerment. She is also a playwright with over 15 plays to her name.NONFICTION- 100 Questions and Answers About Panic Disorder (2005), Jones and Bartlett; reissued 2009- Personality Disorders (2009), Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins- Surviving Dementia: A Clinical and Personal Perspective (2016), Springer Press- Taming the Negative Introject (2019), Francis & Taylor- Psychiatry on the Stage (2023), Oxford University Press