Matters of Life and Death Psychoanalytic Reflections

About the author

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.

Summary

This book focuses on the intrapsychic vicissitudes of what it means to be truly alive and how death accompanies us at each step of our life's journey. It shows that, psychologically-speaking, death is always present in life and life in death.

Product details

• Authors: Salman Akhtar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.07.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology
• EAN: 9780367325541
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32554-1
• Pages: 240
• Subjects: Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / General; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)