Cuneyt Iscan
Iscan Cuneyt, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He earned his medical degree from Ankara University School of Medicine in Turkey in 1990. He completed his psychiatry residency training at Gazi University School of Medicine and the University of Michigan. He received the Wyeth-Ayerst American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) International Medical Graduate Award in Psychiatry in 2001. His studies continued at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a center specializing in the treatment of resistant psychiatric conditions and the application of psychoanalytic treatments. He pursued his psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is currently a faculty and an active member of this institute and the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has been an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School since 2001, and is actively involved in residency training and supervision. He has numerous publications in the form of books, book chapters, and scientific papers in English and Turkish focusing on psychoanalysis, applications of psychoanalytic theory in clinical work, and personality disorders. He is the author of the first book about self-psychology that was published in Turkish. Among his translations to Turkish were Heinz Kohut’s Analysis of the Self as well as Gedo and Goldberg’s Models of the Mind. He has written book chapters on the biology of personality disorders, residential treatment of personality disorders, food and sexuality, and fatherhood in Turkish culture. He has written about violence in postmodern society and violence and sexuality in cinema from the psychoanalytic perspective. His numerous book reviews have been published in various psychoanalytic journals. He is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis.
An Enduring Legacy: Revisiting Ten Forgotten Classics on Psychoanalytic Technique
Ten classic psychoanalytic papers that had a significant influence on current psychoanalytic process are returned to the fore. They represent a diversity of voices and perspectives, ensuring a... (more)