Salman Akhtar is an Indian-American psychoanalyst practicing in the United States. He is an author and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. His work delves into complex psychological themes, offering profound insights into the human mind. He approaches his subject matter with both clinical expertise and a deeply empathetic perspective.
Initial Assessment, Boundaries, Money, Disruptions and Suicidal Crises
Focusing on key challenges in psychotherapy, the book delves into initial assessment, setting boundaries, financial considerations, managing disruptions, and handling suicidal crises. It provides a thorough exploration of both conceptual frameworks and practical techniques for each area, offering valuable insights for practitioners.
Radical departures from the set and familiar rules of technique often become necessary in the course of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis that include conducting a session outside the office, giving advice, and more. This book highlights their indications, risks, and their potential anchors in psychoanalytic theory of human relatedness.
Celebrating a remarkable milestone, this collection features one hundred inspirational stories from Dr. Salman Akhtar's extensive career. Each tale reflects his unique writing style and profound insights, making it a valuable resource for those interested in psychoanalysis. This anthology not only showcases his achievements but also serves as a source of inspiration and wisdom for readers seeking to explore the depths of the human psyche.
Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis
Focusing on the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis, this book features contributions from a diverse group of scholars across various fields. It emphasizes the significant impacts of key Muslim figures and explores Islam's interactions with other major religions. Additionally, it delves into themes such as family dynamics, personal identity, sexuality, and the unique clinical challenges faced by Muslim patients, alongside the practices of Muslim psychoanalysts. The work aims to foster understanding and dialogue between these disciplines.
Offering clear and concise explanations, this reference work covers over 1800 terms and concepts in psychoanalysis, from 'abreaction' to 'zoophilia'. It serves as a valuable resource for both professionals and students, providing clinically useful insights into complex ideas. The book's structured approach makes it accessible, facilitating a better understanding of key psychoanalytic concepts and their applications.
Integrating diverse psychoanalytic traditions with his own theoretical and clinical insights, Salman Akhtar provides answers to these and other important questions in this realm. He weaves the existing conceptual schisms and technical diversity into an integrated theory and technique. In a truly original contribution, he delineates certain ubiquitous human fantasies (e.g., "someday" and "if only" fantasies of optimism and nostalgia, and fantasies of powerful psychic tethers that bind us to others) and shows how their pathological variants underlie the suffering of these patients.
The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation, and Loss, edited by Salman Akhtar, focuses upon the formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and child observational researchers, it elucidates the nuances of mothering, the child's tie to the mother, the mysteries of secure attachment, and the hazards of insecure attachment. These experts also discuss issues of separation, loss, and alternate sources of love when the mother is absent or emotionally unavailable, while highlighting the relevance of such ideas to the treatment of children and adults.
Tautly stretched over the chasm between idolization and iconoclasm, restraint and audacity, and the man-animal distinction, the poems contained in this book evoke scintillating images and garden- fresh metaphors. Parrots that live on Mount Everest, tigers who swallow poets, fishless oceans, ill-tempered camels, and sparrows of memory coexist in its pages with pancakes of platitudes, the Great Mountain of Fear, a starved Bedouin who feels enormous guilt for being hungry, the change in the direction of toes with age, and the one-eyed blacksmith of time. Never has magical surrealism cloaked existential truths better in poetry.
This is the perfect little book to dip into and galvanize your thoughts. Was Bion Hindu? What happens at psychoanalysts’ funerals? Which form of racism is worse? Dr. Akhtar gives his reflections but what are yours? Divided into four parts – Preparation, Principles, Practice, Profession – you’ll want to return to this book again and again.
Warum wandern Menschen aus ihrem Heimatland in ein anderes Land aus? Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Immigration und Exil? Wie wirkt sich Immigration psychologisch aus? Kann man jemals den Verlust seines Landes verarbeiten? Was sind die defensiven Funktionen von Nostalgie? Gibt es spezielle Richtlinien für die Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse für immigrierte Patienten? Wie kann der Therapeut die kulturellen Rationalisierungen von den zugrunde liegenden innerpsychischen Konflikten der Patienten entwirren? Salman Akhtar gibt Antworten auf diese Fragen. Er beobachtet, dass die Immigration von einem Land in ein anderes andauernde Auswirkungen auf die Identität eines Individuums hat. Ein derartiger Identitätswechsel beinhaltet die Dimension von Antrieb und Affekten, psychischem Raum und sozialer Zugehörigkeit. Der Autor spricht folgende Themen an: Idealisierung und Abwertung, Nähe und Distanz, Hoffnung und Nostalgie, vorübergehende Bewusstseinsebene, den Wechsel zum Über-Ich und die linguistische Anpassung der Immigranten. Empfehlungen aus dem Verlagsprogramm: Brigitta Boveland Exil und Identität Österreichisch-jüdische Emigranten in New York und ihre Suche nach der verlorenen Heimat 2006 • 204 Seiten • broschiert € (D) 28,00 • SFr 49,00 ISBN 978-3-89806-353-1
