Carol W. Berman grew up in Los Angeles and studied at the University of California at Berkeley as an undergraduate. She moved to New York and attended NYU Medical School. Her residency in psychiatry was spent at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. She returned to NYU for a research fellowship, where she remains as a clinical instructor in psychiatry. She is also in private practice in New York City.

When she is not writing or treating patients, she paints in acrylics, oils or watercolors.

Dr. Berman wrote a monthly column for CNS News called 'Practical Psychiatry' from 1999-2007. Several of her short stories have been published in literary magazines. She is on the editorial board of The Bellevue Literary Review. Her first play, UNDER THE DRAGON, was produced by The Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse in 2002. Her
second play, SUNSHINE SALLY, was produced in 2007.

100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT PANIC DISORDER is her non-fiction book for the public published by Jones and Bartlett in 2005.

BLITZ IN BERLIN is a novel (not published) about a schizophrenic man, Ike, whose grandfather survived the Holocaust. In his mind he is transported back to the 1600's and World War II where he serves as a golem for a cabalist.