Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
Tufts University School of Medicine
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Lewis M. Cohen M.D. is the author of A Dignified Ending (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and No Good Deed (HarperCollins, 2010). The poet, Edward Hirsch, described the latter as being, “a work of eloquent necessity.” The working title of his current writing project is entitled, Winter’s End, based on the story of a young man with Alzheimer’s who planned on hastening his death.
Lew is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Medicine and Health (2008), a Soros Faculty Scholar Award, two Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency awards (2008, 2015), and a Bogliasco Fellowship for the Arts and Humanity (2013), as well as the Thomas and Eleanor Hackett Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) given by the Academy of Consultation & Liaison Psychiatry.
Lew has been a contributor to the Atlantic, Slate, and Huffington Post and is the editor of a textbook, Dissociative Identity Disorder: Theoretical and Treatment Controversies (Jason Aronson, Inc., 1995).
When he was 12-years-old, Lew’s mother handed him her copy of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, and his career choice was established.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.