In this compact and pithy book, psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar steps out of his consulting room to address certain matters of urgent global concern. These include migration across national borders, the current refugee crisis, ethno-racial prejudice, subjective distress of minorities, and, above all, the forever-present ominous shadow of terrorism.
In this compact and pithy book, psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar steps out of his consulting room to address certain matters of urgent global concern. These include migration across national borders, the current refugee crisis, ethno-racial prejudice, subjective distress of minorities, and, above all, the forever-present ominous shadow of terrorism.
Salman Akhtar 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 InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.
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INTRODUCTION PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE Culture and psychoanalysis: theory and technique CURRENT GLOBAL UNREST CHAPTER TWO Religion, politics, and migration across national borders CHAPTER THREE The mental pain of minorities CHAPTER FOUR Racial, religious, and ethnic prejudice CHAPTER FIVE The current wave of terrorism CHAPTER SIX The ultimate abyss of dehumanization EPILOGUE CHAPTER SEVEN Culture and psychoanalysis: education and training
INTRODUCTION PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE Culture and psychoanalysis: theory and technique CURRENT GLOBAL UNREST CHAPTER TWO Religion, politics, and migration across national borders CHAPTER THREE The mental pain of minorities CHAPTER FOUR Racial, religious, and ethnic prejudice CHAPTER FIVE The current wave of terrorism CHAPTER SIX The ultimate abyss of dehumanization EPILOGUE CHAPTER SEVEN Culture and psychoanalysis: education and training
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