Author Dr. Brad Sachs is a psychologist specializing in clinical work with children, adolescents, couples, and families. He is the author of several books, including The Good Enough Child: How to Have an Imperfect Family and Be Perfectly Satisfied and The Good Enough Teen: Raising Adolescents With Love and Acceptance (Despite How Impossible They Can Be). He is also the author of a previous poetry collection, Blind Date: Poems of Expectant Fatherhood. The 90+ poems in this new collection come directly and poignantly out of Dr. Sachs personal experience.
In the Desperate Kingdom of Love was featured recently on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio.
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Brad Sachs poems celebrate and sometimes mourn family life; personal yet resonating with any reader who has a family, the poems come from a kingdom where parental love, adolescent love, sexual love, and married love cohabit. Dr. Sachs is the author of The Good Enough Child, The Good Enough Teen, and When No One Understands: Letters To a Teenager on Life, Loss, and the Hard Road To Adulthood . He practices in Columbia, MD.
Dr. Brad Sachs is a psychologist, speaker, educator and best-selling author specializing in clinical work with children, adolescents, couples, and families, in Columbia, Maryland, and the Founder and Director of The Father Center, a program designed to meet the needs of new, expectant, and experienced fathers.
His forthcoming book is entitled EMPTYING THE NEST: LAUNCHING YOUNG ADULTS TOWARDS SUCCESS AND SELF-RELIANCE (Macmillan/St. Martin's, July, 2010).
His most recent book, WHEN NO ONE UNDERSTANDS: LETTERS TO A TEENAGER ON LIFE, LOSS, AND THE HARD ROAD TO ADULTHOOD, was published in 2007, and is based on his between-sessions correspondence with a suicidal adolescent whom he was treating.
He is the author of numerous other books, including THE GOOD ENOUGH CHILD: HOW TO HAVE AN IMPERFECT FAMILY AND BE PERFECTLY SATISFIED (HarperCollins, 2001), which was named as an Editor's Choice by Amazon.com and became its best-selling parenting title that year. It was featured on NBC's The Today Show, and was excerpted in Family Circle Magazine.
He has also written THE GOOD ENOUGH TEEN: RAISING ADOLESCENTS WITH LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE (DESPITE HOW IMPOSSIBLE THEY CAN BE), (HarperCollins, 2005), and THINGS JUST HAVEN'T BEEN THE SAME: MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM MARRIAGE TO PARENTHOOD (William Morrow, 1992), which was named one of the Top Five Books for New Parents by Child Magazine. His books have been translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, German, and Danish.
Dr. Sachs regularly writes articles on family life for magazines such as Redbook, Parenting, Parents, Child, and American Baby, is renowned for his creative and innovative treatment of children and families, and has lectured and led seminars and workshops both nationally and internationally. He has been interviewed on over three hundred radio and television shows, including The Today Show, 20/20, The Montel Williams Show, The Sally Jesse Raphael Show, and The Diane Rehm Show.
His original poetry has been collected in IN THE DESPERATE KINGDOM OF LOVE: POEMS 2001-2004, (Chestnut Hills Press, 2005), BLIND DATE: POEMS OF EXPECTANT FATHERHOOD (Chestnut Hills Press), and the forthcoming WHY AM I TELLING YOU THIS? : POEMS FROM PSYCHOTHERAPY.
Dr. Sachs is also a composer and performer, most recently releasing HARD TALES TO TELL, a cycle of sixteen original songs based on the stories his patients have told him. Other recording projects include OPENING DAY: SONGS OF EXPECTANT FATHERHOOD, LOVE SO HARD: SONGS OF MARRIAGE, and the soundtrack for the NPR series on minor league baseball, APPALACHIAN ALMANAC.
He is a graduate of Brown University, where he met his wife, Dr. Karen Meckler, a psychiatrist and medical acupuncturist, and together they raise their three teenaged children and two dogs in Columbia, Maryland.
This review is from: In The Desperate Kingdom Of Love (Paperback)
I first heard Brad Sachs through his poem ""A Boy in a Bed in the Dark" which was featured on the public radio program "The Writer's Almanac."
Like most of his poems, "A Boy in a Bed in the Dark" is about sadness, loss, beauty, and the everyday trials of life. Sachs, a psychiatrist or something by day, writers poetry that captures not only the magical but the mundane. He describes the things that make our normal, extraordinary lives worth living, but also finds the moments that we can't forget; the type of moments that are wont to crawl up inside our hearts and post a change of address to the local mailman. "A Boy in a Bed in the Dark" perfectly captures that memory so many of us have, the memory of something gone wrong, something we neglected, something that went to far. The sort of thing that haunts us in the lonely watches of the night, when sleep is distant and our sins all to near.
See, just thinking about Sachs makes me get all poetic.
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