Eyes, Mind and Vision: Visual Realities and Metaphors in Psychoanalysis

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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Nina Savelle-Rocklin, is a psychoanalyst, author, and podcast host. She is the author of Food for Thought: Perspectives on Eating Disorders (Rowman & Littlefield) and co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of Beyond the Primal Addiction (Karnac Books) and Food Matters: A Biopsychosocial Approach (Phoenix Publishing House). She also wrote The Binge Cure: 7 Steps to Outsmart Emotional Eating and its companion workbook, The Binge Cure Journal, as well as Beyond Binge Eating: 100 Powerful Reflections to Transform Your Relationship with Food. Dr. Savelle-Rocklin contributed chapters in four scholarly books, including her chapter “The origins and fundamentals of psychoanalysis” (in Freud & The Buddha), and wrote more than fifty articles on disordered eating for publications such as Psyche Online and Psychology Today, the National Eating Disorders Association, Eating Disorder Hope, and other national and international organizations and publications. Her media appearances include being a featured guest on “The Dr. Drew Podcast” and more than twenty radio shows and podcasts worldwide. Her radio program, “The Dr. Nina Show,” on L.A. Talk Radio aired for more than six years and can now be heard as a podcast. Her other podcasts include “The Forking Truth,” “Mind Matters,” and “The Binge Cure with Dr. Nina.” Dr. Savelle-Rocklin is also on the board of Rose City Center, a psychoanalytically informed flexible fee counseling and training center, where she is the director of the Development Committee.

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