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    Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

    Author: Salman Akhtar

    £20.99 – £37.99

    A truly magnificent accomplishment – Salman Akhtar has achieved his century! Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis is Dr Akhtar’s one hundredth book and contains one hundred inspirational stories taken from throughout his working life. Written in his inimitable style, the book is a treasure trove for anyone with an interest in psychoanalysis.

    Produced to an exceptional standard with 36 black and white photographs and 9 block colour pages.

    Look inside!

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    Salman Akhtar

    ISBN

    9781912691678

    Format

    Large Format Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    248

    Publication Date

    November 2021

    Subject Areas

    Biography, Psychoanalysis

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    One hundred and one tales to mark Salman Akhtar’s one hundredth book! Divided into eight informative parts – Dr Akhtar’s journey to psychoanalysis; the lessons he learned from his teachers, supervisors, and mentors; the teachings from his peers and colleagues; the benefits of clinical work; the impact of cultural difference; insights gained from students, supervisees, and audiences; his experiences of writing, editing, and publishing; and advice for those about to take their first steps – each section is packed full of incredible advice lightly given in a series of engaging anecdotes.

    These ‘tales’ include Akhtar’s experiences as a humble candidate soaking in psychoanalytic knowledge, awestruck beginner watching psychoanalytic glitterati from afar, young analyst engaged in clever banter with his peers, thoughtful clinician, industrious writer, funny colleague, soulful poet, and, above all, a human being vulnerable to mistakes, biases, and sundry follies of his own.

    Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis is the perfect book for trainees, practising clinicians, and all those with an interest in the subject. Buy your copy and enjoy the storytelling genius of this lyrical and poetic psychoanalyst!

    About the author

    About the author

    Salman Akhtar, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His nearly 400 publications include 99 books, of which the following 20 are solo-authored: Broken Structures (1992), Quest for Answers (1995), Inner Torment (1999), Immigration and Identity (1999), New Clinical Realms (2003), Objects of Our Desire (2005), Regarding Others (2007), Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy (2009), The Damaged Core (2009), Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009), Immigration and Acculturation (2011), Matters of Life and Death (2011), The Book of Emotions (2012), Psychoanalytic Listening (2013), Good Stuff (2013), Sources of Suffering (2014), No Holds Barred (2016), A Web of Sorrow (2017), Mind, Culture, and Global Unrest (2018), and Silent Virtues (2019).

    Dr Akhtar has delivered many prestigious invited lectures including a Plenary Address at the 2nd International Congress of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders in Oslo, Norway (1991), an Invited Plenary Paper at the 2nd International Margaret S. Mahler Symposium in Cologne, Germany (1993), an Invited Plenary Paper at the Rencontre Franco-Americaine de Psychanalyse meeting in Paris, France (1994), a Keynote Address at the 43rd IPA Congress in Rio de Janiero, Brazil (2005), the Plenary Address at the 150th Freud Birthday Celebration sponsored by the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society and the Embassy of Austria in Leiden, Holland (2006), and the Inaugural Address at the first IPA-Asia Congress in Beijing, China (2010).

    Dr Akhtar is the recipient of numerous awards including the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Edith Sabshin Award (2000), Columbia University’s Robert Liebert Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis (2004), the American Psychiatric Association’s Kun Po Soo Award (2004) and Irma Bland Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of Psychiatric Residents in the country (2005). He received the highly prestigious Sigourney Award (2012) for distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis. In 2103, he gave the Commencement Address at graduation ceremonies of the Smith College School of Social Work in Northampton, MA.

    Dr Akhtar’s books have been translated into many languages, including German, Italian, Korean, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish. A true Renaissance man, Dr Akhtar has served as the Film Review Editor for The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is currently serving as the Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. He has published 9 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia.

    To view all our titles from Salman Akhtar, click here.

    Contents

    Contents

    PROLOGUE

    What is not in this book?

    Part I
    Finding my way to psychoanalysis

    1. Delusion and stage acting
    2. A nagging question
    3. Papa!
    4. A benevolent prediction
    5. Otto Fenichel in a navy blue suit
    6.How can one predict such things?
    7. Streaking in New Jersey
    8. A class act
    9. Don’t mess with the master
    10. Nipples
    11. Self-castration and a man called John Buckman
    12. The grand permission
    13. Refusing to listen

    PART II
    Lessons I received from my teachers, supervisors, and mentors

    14. The renowned analyst who traumatized me
    15. Why not Broadway?
    16. Rare indeed
    17. To pee or not to peeIndian miniatures and Jackson Pollock
    18. Indian miniatures and Jackson Pollock
    19. What else can a man want?
    20. Unlike Jacob Freud
    21. Illusionless man
    22. Let us give the boy a chance!
    23. A true gentleman
    24. Ten percent goes a long way!
    25. Naughty—1
    26.Schizophrenia
    27.The Brazilian panic
    28. Amazing grace
    29. A diligent follow-up
    30. From ‘Liquid Steel’ to ‘Deep Throat’
    31. A brutal transgression
    32. Seven features of a proper apology
    33. A missed opportunity
    34. The man who laid everything on the line
    35. Leonard Horowitz eats baklava

    PART III
    What my colleagues and peers taught me

    36. An act of genuine empathy
    37. The mourning pill
    38. Eleven hours in Oslo
    39. From Stephen Ward to Ivan Ward
    40. A gentleman from Virginia introduced me to Charles Darwin
    41. On an escalator in Toronto
    42. Dominic and Damien
    43. Psychoanalysis and Idi Amin
    44. My own narrowmindedness
    45. Book review—1
    46. Hardly arrogant
    47. Circumcision—1
    48. Bangles
    49. Un-associated
    50. No, I did not sleep with Mark Moore and Ira Brenner
    51. Frank Maleson made me lose a million dollars
    52. Ralph Fishkin made me think
    53. An editor’s gift
    54. Circumcision—2

    PART IV
    Clinical work turned out to be my ‘royal road’ to learning

    55. Long before the Rain Man
    56. A son by any other name
    57. Silence and stillness
    58. The man who shot a pregnant woman
    59. Between yes and no
    60. Learning to speak from animals
    61. Please don’t give me any money
    62. A now moment
    63. Let us do it this Sunday
    64. Naming the female genital
    65. First patience, then act of faith
    66. The boat never sinks
    67. Curtailing the greed for interpretation
    68. Milk and cookies
    69. Ten most important lessons

    PART V
    The cultural difference between me and my professional surround became an adjunct instructor of mine

    70. Meeting Masud Khan
    71. One friendly nudge, one award, and two books
    72. Who pays?
    73. From Evelyne Schwaber to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
    74. Trans-fixed
    75. ‘You are not one of us!’
    76. The altruistic core of 9/11
    77. A dam across the Ganges
    78. ‘What else can you expect from these Muslims?’
    79. My African American struggle
    80. Culture, narcissism, or sorrow?
    81. ‘Humbug!’
    82. A good reason to not have sex?

    PART VI
    Insights that arose from dealing with students, supervisees, and sundry audiences

    83. Two flower vases
    84. Can water cure cancer?
    85. On being called a ‘good man’
    86. Tennis as a disguise for psychoanalysis
    87. Naughty—2
    88. My French connection
    89. Can a believer be a psychoanalyst?
    90. Who do I belong to?
    91. Is really old stuff any good?
    92. Seventy-three plus twenty-five

    PART VII
    Writing, editing, and publishing ‘saved’ me

    93. Writing aids
    94. Why I write
    95. Writing as manic defense
    96. Why I edit books
    97. On being a midwife
    98. A man of few words
    99. Book Review—2
    100. Writing poetry
    101. One final thought

    EPILOGUE

    A few amazing coincidences

    Permissions
    Acknowledgments
    About the author
    The other ninety-nine books by the author
    Name index

    6 reviews for Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

    1. Peter Fonagy – 15/09/2021

      Salman Akhtar is a brilliant scholar, a superb integrator of ideas, and one of the most original minds in modern psychoanalysis.

    2. Rosemary Balsam – 15/09/2021

      Salman Akhtar is one of the most learned but also lyrical and imaginative medical men who ever graced the field of psychoanalysis.

    3. Otto Kernberg – 15/09/2021

      If, by a magical process, you were able to generate a unique individual with an encyclopedic mind, an indefatigable search for scientific knowledge, a superb scholar and teacher, and a poet able to movingly convey human ecstasies and tragedy, you would have created a replica of Salman Akhtar.

    4. Marilia Aisenstein – 15/09/2021

      In my very first meeting with Salman Akhtar, whom I had already read, I was amazed by his kind simplicity allied with princely refinement. Salman is a poet, a storyteller and has a rare quality that I would call ‘heartfelt civility.’

    5. Vamık Volkan – 15/09/2021

      His amiability and enthusiasm, his curiosity and creativity, his eagerness to share and teach make Salman Akhtar an admirable psychoanalyst and a memorable man.

    6. Nick Campion, integrative psychotherapist in Derby, ‘Therapy Today’ September 2022 – 06/12/2022

      ‘I enjoyed hearing about the process of psychotherapy, the delicate balancing act of therapeutic interpretation and the thought processes behind disclosure. […] Overall, this book allows the reader to see one analysts 50 year journey and witnessed the ever changing theoretical landscape of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy’

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