Where is India in My Psychoanalytic Work?

Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His seventy-three books include sixteen solo-authored, as well as forty-nine edited books in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He received Best Paper of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (1995), Edith Sabshin Award (2000) from the American Psychoanalytic Association, Sigmund Freud Award from the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians (2000), Kun-Po Soo Award (2004) from the American Psychiatric Foundation, Irma Bland Award (2005) from the American Psychiatric Association, and, most recently, the prestigious Sigourney Award (2012) for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis. Dr. Akhtar has delivered lectures in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Serbia, and Turkey. His books have been translated into many languages. He has also published eight volumes of poetry and is Scholar-in-Residence at the InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia.