To Bring Good News: A Memoir

After a decades-long career spent analyzing others, the renowned psychoanalyst Henry Kellerman turns his gaze inward. To Bring Good News weaves together anecdotes from Kellerman's life and reflections on a century of history to tell how a child actor and performer of Yiddish poetry from the Bronx, growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust, rose to become a successful therapist and the author and editor of over forty books.

Kellerman sweeps us from the Ukraine of his parents' youth to his New York City childhood in the 1940s and '50s; to his own appearances onstage at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden; to the dance halls of the South Bronx and Miami, the sites of his youthful escapades and romantic affairs; and through the academic and career successes of his professional life. His deep well of love for his family is a clear source of strength and a driving force in all that he would accomplish.

Running throughout are the themes that have shaped his life: the search for a home, for a career that would allow him to feel anonymous, and for a way to make a contribution to his community and to his family-to bring them good news.