Joshua Loth Liebman

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman, author of "Peace of Mind," meets neuropsychiatrist Dr. Richard H. Hoffmann, the Reverend Dr. Carl Heath Koff, with host John K.M. McCaffery.

From Wikipedia:

A sermon Liebman gave at Temple Israel, titled "The Road to Inner Serenity", was published as a pamphlet by one of his friends, bookstore owner Richard Fuller, who passed it on to publisher Richard L. Simon of Simon & Schuster.[7] Simon & Schuster then arranged to publish Liebman's self-help book titled Peace of Mind, issued in 1946, which sought to reconcile religion and psychiatry.[8] Liebman had himself previously undergone psychoanalysis.[5] In Peace of Mind, Liebman "addressed himself to the individual whose personal grief and anxiety, unassuageable by social betterment alone, required an inner peace that psychology and religion, working together, could provide."[8] Peace of Mind became one of the year's best-selling books.[9] Reaching #1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-sellers list on October 27, 1946, Peace of Mind held the top position on the list for a total of 58 (non-consecutive) weeks, and spent more than three straight years on the list.



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