Haltzman, Scott 1960-

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Haltzman, Scott 1960-

PERSONAL:

Born 1960; married. Education: Brown University, B.S., M.D.;Yale University, psychiatric training and chief residency.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—147 County Rd., Barrington, RI 02806.E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

NRI Community Services, Woonsocket, RI, medical director; Brown University, Providence, RI, professor.

MEMBER:

American Psychiatric Association, Distinguished Fellow.

WRITINGS:

(With Theresa Foy DiGeronimo) The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wifen's Heart Forever, Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA), 2006.

Also author of foreword to Gabrielle Lichterman's 28 Days, Adam's Media (Avon, MD), 2005; contributor of chapters to several academic books, including Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient, edited by A. Stoudemire and B.S. Fogel, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1996; and A Clinical Manual of Men's Mental Health, APA Press, 2006.

Contributor to periodicals, including Providence Journal, Woonsocket Call, Battalion Quarterly, About Health, and Allentown Morning Call; regular contributor to Web sites, including Savvy Male, MenWeb, andFamily Ministries.

SIDELIGHTS:

Scott Haltzman, a graduate of Brown University and Brown Medical School, is a board certified psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. His primary area of interest is marriage, and the behaviors that contribute to make a marriage succeed or fail, particularly from the male point of view. In an attempt to help men have happier, more successful marriages, Haltzman offers advice as a regular contributor to Savvy Male.com, and through his own Web site, Secrets of Married Men.com, and has written a book on the subject,The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wife's Heart Forever. Among other pieces of advice, he encourages men to realize that women look at marriage differently, and that it is important to continue to make their spouse feel special and loved. Haltzman notes that there are courses couples can take prior to getting married that will help them learn what to expect, and that research indicates such preparation can help make a marriage last. Deborah Bigelow, in a review for Library Journal, noted that "Haltzman writes guy to guy, with anecdotes and humor." A contributor for Publishers Weekly remarked that Haltzman's advice "will no doubt prove helpful to many men struggling to build a happy marriage."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, January 1, 2006, Deborah Bigelow, review of The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wife's Heart Forever,p. 137.

New York Times, February 14, 2006, John Tierney, "Valentine's Day Homework," p. A21.

Publishers Weekly, November 7, 2005, review of The Secrets of Happily Married Men, p. 68.