Bernard D. Beitman

BERNARD BEITMAN, M.D., is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project which encourages people to tell each other their coincidence stories. His book, Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Serendipity and Synchronicity Happen (September 13, 2022) comprehensively describes their wide range of uses and explanations. The book serves as a personal guide to using synchronicities and serendipities.

He is former chair of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has a private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.

His manual Learning Psychotherapy received two national awards for its unique interactive training program for psychiatric residents. He is internationally known for research in panic disorder and chest pain and has edited several books about how to integrate pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy.

He went to Swarthmore College, Yale Medical School, and did his psychiatric residency at Stanford. He was captain of the baseball team in high school and college. He was scouted by the Oakland Raiders pro football team, tried out for the Pittsburg Pirates pro baseball team and played rugby at Yale and in San Francisco.

The stories in his first book Connecting with Coincidence (2016) illustrate how meaningful coincidences can be useful in most aspects of life.