Books by David B. Schwartz
The Sidewalk Psychotherapist
Offering moving stories of healing through enduring relationships, The Sidewalk Psychotherapist defines psychotherapy as the fruit of traditions both ancient and modern – from the ancient Greeks to Dante’s spiritual crisis to groundbreaking new brain research.
Applying philosophy and spirituality to an accessible, common-sense method of treatment, the book teaches us how a caring psychotherapy is both traditional and revolutionary, offering help that can nurture individuals, and communities.
Who Cares?
"Our society has many official, paid, credentialed experts working on the problems of the world. Instead, according to this blueprint for radical, direct, and loving action, we each need to do what we can and not wait for official solutions. By creating connections with each other - friend, stranger, neighbor, and relative - we can discover untapped resources.
This book is filled with the passion of a man who lives his vision of active, loving commitment to the well-being of all souls, focusing on the needs of the physically challenged, the poor, the elderly, the mentally ill, and members of other marginalized groups. What is most important is that these helping relationships are peer relationships, where the boundaries between gift and gratitude, giver and recipient, vanish. A practical and magical book."
-Patricia Wagner, The Bloomsbury Review Sept/Oct 1997
Crossing The River
This book is a "must read" for policy makers, families of people with disabilities, and service providers. Unlike most writers in the field, Schwartz expands his discussion of disability policy and practice to the larger realm of community and the world we all live in at any given moment. This book stimulates us to examine our own assumptions, our world view, our own life trajectory, and the very purpose of our own individual lives.
Martha Ziegler