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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Focuses on positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. This book covers the realms such as: love! friendship! enthusiasm! courage! tact! resilience! and forgiveness! among others. It elucidates issues of development! adaptation! psychopathology! and analytic technique! as these pertain to the positive dimension of affective experience. Zusammenfassung This tightly edited volume opens a new vista in psychoanalysis by focusing upon positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. The realms it covers include love, friendship, enthusiasm, courage, tact, resilience, and forgiveness, among others. Inhaltsverzeichnis IPA Publications Committee , Prologue , Healthy Reserves , Enthusiam , Commentary on “Enthusiasm” , Courage , Commentary on “Courage” , Altruism , Commentary on “Altruism” , Faith , Commentary on “Faith” , Harmonious Relations , Tact , Commentary on “Tact” , Love , Commentary on “Love” , Friendship , Commentary on “Friendship” , Hopeful Retreats , Humour , Commentary on “Humour” , Creativity , Commentary on “Creativity” , Humane Responses , Resilience , Commentary on “Resilience” , Atonement , Commentary on “Atonement” , Forgiveness , Commentary on “Forgiveness” , Epilogue...
