Quest for Answers: A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders

Akhtar, Salman

ISBN 10: 1568213646 / ISBN 13: 9781568213644

Published by Jason Aronson, Inc., 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quest for Answers: A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568213646
• ISBN 13: 9781568213644
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 13.97W x 21.59H x 1.4D centimeters 13.97 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 1.4 centimeters depth
• Weight: 295 grams

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Synopsis

Q & A format/discusses the 'as-if' personality/malignant narcissism/projective identification/cumulative trauma/etc.

About the Author

Salman Akhtar 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 InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.

Salman Akhtar 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 InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.