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Salman Akhtar was born in Khairabad, Uttar Pradesh to Jan Nisar Akhtar, a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet, and Safia Akhtar, a teacher and writer.His grandfather, Muztar Khairabadi, was a poet while his great great grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, was a scholar of Islamic studies and theology and played an important role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Indian-American psychoanalyst and poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Salman Akhtar (born 31 July 1946) is an Indian-American psychoanalyst practicing in the United States. He is an author and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
Nov 30, 2010 · It is no wonder that Salman makes reference to Simon Winchester's book describing the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) by Dr. James Murray in The Professor and the Madman (1998). Here we learn the incredible fact that a key contributor to the OED was an institutionalized patient—a psychotic murderer.
- David Sachs
- 2010
Salman Akhtar, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
Dec 1, 2009 · Akhtar (above) may have called for an “optimal blend of credulousness and skepticism” when listening to patients but to expect this as a model for psychoanalytic discourse might be asking for too much.
- Jessica B Covitz, Howard H Covitz
- 2009
Jul 16, 2015 · The concept of forgiveness, Akhtar observes, gives psychoanalytic discourse pause. He says one reason for this lacuna in the literature is religious associations: “to err is human, to forgive divine.”
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Does Salman's new book turn the psychoanalytic world upside down?
In this compact and pithy book, the distinguished and prolific psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar steps out of his consulting room to address certain matters of urgent global concern.
