An Enduring Legacy: Revisiting Ten Forgotten Classics on Psychoanalytic Technique

About the Editor(s)

Salman Akhtar, MD, is 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 and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His more than 450 publications include 120 books, of which the following twenty-three are solo-authored – Broken Structures (1992), Quest for Answers (1995), Inner Torment (1999), Immigration and Identity (1999), New Clinical Realms (2003), Objects of Our Desire (2005), Regarding Others (2007), Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy (2009), The Damaged Core (2009), Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009), Immigration and Acculturation (2011), Matters of Life and Death (2011), Psychoanalytic Listening (2013), Good Stuff (2013), Sources of Suffering (2014), No Holds Barred (2016), A Web of Sorrow (2017), Mind, Culture, and Global Unrest (2018), Silent Virtues (2019), Tales of Transformation (2022), In Leaps and Bounds (2022), and In Short (2024) – as well as sixty-nine edited or coedited volumes in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Dr. Akhtar has delivered many prestigious addresses and lectures including, most significantly, the inaugural address at the first IPA-Asia Congress in Beijing, China (2010). Dr. Akhtar is the recipient of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Best Paper of the Year Award (1995), the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize (1996), the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians’ Sigmund Freud Award (2000), the American College of Psychoanalysts’ Laughlin Award (2003), the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Edith Sabshin Award (2000), Columbia University’s Robert Liebert Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis (2004), the American Psychiatric Association’s Kun Po Soo Award (2004), the Irma Bland Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of Psychiatric Residents in the country (2005), and the Nancy Roeske Award (2012). He received the Sigourney Award (2013), which is the most prestigious honor in the field of psychoanalysis. Dr. Akhtar is an internationally sought speaker and teacher, and his books have been translated in many languages, including German, Turkish, and Romanian. His interests are wide and he has served as the film review editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is currently serving as the book review editor for the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. He has published eighteen collections of poetry and serves as a scholar-in-residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. His Selected Papers (Vols I–X) were recently published and released at a festive event held at the Freud House & Museum in London.

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Sureyya Iscan, PhD, is a psychologist and board-certified psychoanalyst whose work bridges developmental science, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice. She earned her MA in educational psychology and PhD in developmental psychology from Ankara University in Turkey, followed by a second MA and PhD in clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. İşcan worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Michigan and pursued advanced training in psychodynamic research at the Yale Child Study Center and the Anna Freud Centre. She later served as a research associate at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where she deepened her engagement with psychoanalytic treatment and research. She is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), where she currently serves as vice chair of the Curriculum Committee. Dr. İşcan is associate professor of psychiatry and director of psychotherapy education at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. A dedicated educator, she is a three-time recipient of the Paul B. Barreira Teaching Award (2016, 2018, 2019). Her scholarly work spans psychoanalytic research, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the study of sexuality, reflecting her ongoing commitment to integrating clinical insight with empirical inquiry.

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.