Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellermanis an American psychologist, and Edgar and Anthony Award-winning author of numerous bestselling suspense novels. His writings on psychologyinclude Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children. Most of his fictional stories feature the character of Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults for the police, assisted in his investigations by LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, who is what Kellerman describes as "gay, but so what?" He has also written numerous essays, an art book on vintage guitars entitled With Strings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth9 August 1949
CountryUnited States of America
I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.
At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.
His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)
Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.
I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively little supervision and one place I visited frequently was the local library. This particular branch was little more than a storefront but to me it was an alternative universe where I could explore my interests and receive kind, informative answers to my questions from the wonderful librarians.
Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am....
40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.
Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.