Inner Torment: Living Between Conflict and Fragmentation
Book Details
- Publisher : Jason Aronson
- Published : 1998
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 318
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 7006
- ISBN 13 : 9780765701596
- ISBN 10 : 0765701596
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Fragmentation, feeling torn apart by conflict, self-loathing, and loneliness, are some forms of inner torment that characterize the mental lives of many patients who seek psychotherapy. This text presents an approach to understand and help patients who are not psychotic or obviously borderline. 318 pages.
About the Author(s)
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. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry 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 300 publications including books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis and several collections of poetry. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.
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