Living With Suicide

This week on Living with a Suicide host Dawn Harward interviews Madeleine Herrmann. Madeleine Herrmann lost her husband to suicide and is the auther of Partita a Psychological Mystery. Madeleine and Fred defied the age-old hostility between the Germans and the French and married. They lived in California, built two houses, and raised four children. Madeleine pioneered physical fitness classes for women and children in California and graduated from UC Berkeley in 1962 with a master’s degree. Tragically, Fred Herrmann committed suicide in 1969. Madeleine raised their four children on her own and then, in 1983, she went back to college to study Transpersonal Psychology in the master’s program at JFK University in Orinda, CA. She has lived in Taos, New Mexico, since 1992. Partita a Psychological Mystery is a novel exploring the mysteries of human sorrow, love, and music. The story is Madeleine’s fictional exploration of the causes of her husband’s suicide, and presents the view of a woman struggling to find answ