By Peter A. Selwyn. 176 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1998. $20. ISBN 0-300-07126-4.
Physicians have made substantial contributions to the autobiographicalliterature, but not many have passed the test of soul-baring,Augustinian self-analysis required by confessional literature.William Carlos Williams is among the few. More recently, RafaelCampo and Jack Coulehan — like Williams, both are physician-poets— have made their marks on the literature of private thoughts.Now Peter Selwyn brings us Surviving the Fall, a wrenching accountof his search for self-discovery. Selwyn's story of how he confrontedhis past is much more than autobiography. It is an examinationof a personal crisis brought on by the stress of working with. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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