North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation

present

From Delight to Wisdom: Traveling the Path to Mental Health

with distinguished speaker Salman Akhtar, MD

Saturday, March 1, 2008

The UNC Friday Center in Chapel Hill

Salman Akhtar, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.  Dr. Akhtar is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychoanalysts.  He is the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis.  He is an editorial reader for the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and 7 other journals. 

A prolific writer, Salman Akhtar is the author of Broken Structures (1992), Quest for Answers (1995), Inner Torment (1999), Immigration, and Identity (1999), New Clinical Realms (2003), Objects of Our Desire (2005), and The Alphabet of Psychoanalysis (in press). 

Dr. Akhtar’s more than 225 scientific publications also include 23 edited books:  New Psychiatric Syndromes (1983), Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit (1991), The Trauma of Transgression (1991), When the Body Speaks (1992), Mahler and Kohut (1994), The Birth of Hatred (1995), The Internal Mother (1996), Intimacy and Infidelity (1996), The Seed of Madness (1997), The Seasons of Life (1997), The Colors of Childhood (1998), Brothers and Sisters (1999), Thicker than Blood (2000), Does God Help? (2001), Three Faces of Mourning (2001), Real and Imaginary Fathers (2004), The Language of Emotions (2005), Mental Zoo (2005), Cultural Zoo (2005), Freud Along the Ganges (2005), Severe Personality Disorders (in press), The Crescent and the Couch (in press), and Space and Intuition (in press). 

Dr. Akhtar is a celebrated lecturer, having delivered many prestigious addresses and lectures around the world. He is the recipient of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Best Paper of the Year Award (1995), the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize (1996), the ASPP’s Sigmund Freud Award (2000), the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Edith Sabshin Award for psychoanalytic teaching (2000), Columbia University’s Robert Liebert Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis (2004), the APA’s Kun Po Soo Award (2004), and the APA’s Irma Bland Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of Psychiatric Residents in the country (2005). 

He is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Interact Theatre Company in Philadelphia and has published six volumes of poetry.

For information on this program, please visit www.ncpsychoanalysis.org or call (919)847-2323.