Cultural Zoo Animals in the Human Mind and Its Sublimation

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is the president of the International Dialogue Initiative and a former president of the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, and the American College of Psychoanalysts. He received the Sigmund Freud Award given by the city of Vienna in collaboration with the World Council of Psychotherapy, and in 2015 received the Sigourney Award, honouring achievements for the advancement of psychoanalysis.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Salman Volkan Akhtar
• Mitarbeit: Salman Akhtar (Herausgeber), Vamik D. Volkan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.07.2019
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Theoretische Psychologie
• EAN: 9780367324025
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32402-5
• Anzahl Seiten: 314
• Themen: Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / General; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)