Background
He was born into a Muslim family in Khairabad, Uttar Pradesh to January Nisar Akhtar, a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet, and singer Safia Akhtar, a teacher and writer
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Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation
(Why do people migrate from one country to another? What i...)
Why do people migrate from one country to another? What is the difference between an immigrant and an exile? What determines the psychological outcome of immigration? Can one ever mourn the loss of one's country? What are the defensive functions of nostalgia? Are there specific guidelines for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for immigrant patients? How can the therapist disentangle the patient's cultural rationalizations from underlying intrapsychic conflicts? In this unique book, psychoanalyst and poet Salman Akhtar provides answers to such questions. He notes that migration from one country to another has lasting effects on an individual's identity. Such identity change involves the dimensions of drives and affects, psychic space, temporality, and social affiliation. Dr. Akhtar addresses the immigrant's idealization and devaluation, closeness and distance, hope and nostalgia, transitional area of the mind, superego change, and linguistic transformation. With poignant clinical vignettes, he illustrates the implications of these ideas for the therapeutic process where the therapist, the patient, or both, are immigrants. Immigration and Identity, replete with poetry and personal letters from immigrant colleagues from many nations, conveys its message with irony, wit, laughter, pain, sadness, empathy, and, above all, clinical and human wisdom.
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Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation by Salman Akhtar (1999-11-01)
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Salman Akhtar
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Aligarh Muslim University.
Career
He is an author and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He is the brother veteran poet and film lyricist Javed Akhtar. After receiving his Doctor of Medicine at Aligarh Muslim University"s Medical School in India, he did his internship at Maulana Azad Medical College of the University of Delhi in India.
He moved to the United States.A. in 1973 and did his residency and psychiatric training at the University of Virginia Medical Center, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute.
Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College and psychiatrist an at the Jefferson University Hospital as well as 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 300 publications include 13 books He has also 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 also has published seven collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Acting Theatre Company in Philadelphia.
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Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation
(Why do people migrate from one country to another? What i...)
- Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation by Salman Akhtar (1999-11-01)
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Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation
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Islam