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In the emphasis upon the formative impact of the parent's attitudes and behaviors, it is often overlooked that a growing child draws psychic sustenance from other sources as well. Prominent among these are maids, nannies, grandparents, siblings, school teachers, childhood chums, and adolescent peers. Later as an adult, professional mentors, lovers, spouses, in-laws, and even one's children help consolidate, rework, and refine the intrapsychic world. "Beside Parents" elucidates these life-giving and life-sustaining relational scenarios and their subtle or not so subtle transferential re-creations in the clinical situation. A unique book about an under-examined topic.
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Salman Akhtar, MD, was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications including books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis and several collections of poetry. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.
