Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

About Salman Akhtar

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 Associations Edith Sabshin Award (2000) Columbia Universitys Robert Liebert Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis (2004) the American Psychiatric Associations 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 Akhtars 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.