“Step Through and Command the Islands to Exist”: Response to Commentaries by Lara Sheehi and Shifa Haq

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst currently practicing in Princeton, NJ. He is a clinical associate faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he was chief resident and completed a fellowship in treatment resistant mood disorders at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has authored articles on topics ranging from neuroscience, mood disorders, and psychoanalysis. Dr Shah’s forthcoming book entitled The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference - is due out in Spring 2022 published by Phoenix Publishing House.