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Masud Khan was a wealthy South Asian émigré psychoanalyst and writer originally from the Punjab, in what is now Pakistan. He trained with three key figures of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Ella Sharpe, John Rickman and, most extensively, Winnicott. He lived and worked in London for some 40 years, serving as a valued and effective editor of the New Psychoanalytic Library, also publishing four books of his own and numerous articles and reviews in British, French and American journals. He was expelled from the International Psychoanalytic Association for professional misconduct, shortly before his death in 1989. In much of the last decade of his life, he was ill with cancer and suffered from the effects of a serious addiction to alcohol. According to the many accounts on record of those who had known him, whether in a personal or a professional capacity, he was a strikingly charismatic and handsome man.
However intriguing the brief sketch above may make him appear, it is most unusual for someone in Khan's relatively obscure profession of psychoanalysis to have already become the object of two substantial biographies such as the ones under review in this article, the first, by Roger Willoughby, appearing with the British publisher, Free Association Books, in 2005, the second, by Linda Hopkins, with the American Other Press