Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Webinar: On Reaching Out to a Damaged Self |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 14/11/2026 |
| Duration | : | 2pm - 5:15 PM (GMT) |
| Extra Info | : | Join us for this engaging seminar with Prof. Salman Akthar focusing on the topics of deadness and self-loathing and their clinical relevance This seminar will comprise of two inter-linked sessions dealing with profoundly dysphoric internal experiences of deadness and self-loathing. Each session will focus on one of the two phenomenona and will offer illustrations from clinical experience, the literary realm, and day-to-day life. Each session will consist of a 60-minute talk and a 30-minute Q&A period, making for an engaging and rich conversation. Session I : Self-loathing Session II : Deadness CPD points available. Speaker: 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. He is Emeritus Professor 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 118 books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis, including his most recent: Freud in Istanbul: Turkish contributions to Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012. Click here to browse Salman Akhtar's work |
| Organised By | : | Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy |
| Web Link | : | https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/on-reaching-out-to-a-damaged-self-tickets-1990045351216 |