Life-Changing Synchronicities - A Doctor's Journey of Coincidence and Serendipity

A psychiatrist’s review of a lifetime of synchronicities

List of contents

FOREWORD
by Roderick Main

INTRODUCTION
The Strangeness that Masquerades as Real Life

PART 1
Coincidence in Place

1 Shaker Heights

2 Wilmington

3 Swarthmore

4 New Haven

5 San Francisco

6 Psychedelic San Francisco

7 How I Became a Tarot Card Reader

8 Seattle

9 Columbia

10 Charlottesville

11 I Become a Coincidence Author

12 Literary Coincidences

13 Internal GPS

14 The Coincidence Project

15 Down by the River

16 Flowing in C’Ville

17 Interpersonal Energy

18 Deus Ex-Machina

19 Communicating with Trees

PART 2
Serial Coincidences

20 That Tom

21 Heart Trouble

22 Close Calls

EPILOGUE
Synchronicity Shows Us How We
Are Interconnected

APPENDIX I
Questions for Reflection

APPENDIX II
Thought Patterns of Synchronicity Observers

APPENDIX III
Principles of Coincidence

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

About the author

Bernard Beitman, M.D., a graduate of Yale Medical School, did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. The former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School for 17 years, he writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence and is the coauthor of the award-winning book Learning Psychotherapy. The founder of The Coincidence Project, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Beitman
• Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9798888501849
• ISBN: 979-8-88850-184-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 224 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 278 g
• Subject: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development