Notes on Contributors

Salman Akhtar, MD, is 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 , Edith Sabshin Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association, Sigmund Freud Award from the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians , Kun-Po Soo Award from the American Psychiatric Foundation, Irma Bland Award from the American Psychiatric Association, and, most recently, the prestigious Sigourney Award 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.

Sudhir Kakar, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and writer. He has been a lecturer at Harvard University, visiting professor at the universities of Chicago, McGill, Melbourne, Hawaii, Vienna, and INSEAD, and Fellow at the Institutes of Advanced Study, Princeton and Berlin. Kakar's many honors include the Boyer Prize of the American Anthropological Association, the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, and Germany's Goethe Medal and Order of Merit. He is on the Board of Directors of the Sigmund Freud Archives at the Library of Congress. Kakar is the author of eighteen books of nonfiction and five of fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages around the world.

Gurmeet S. Kanwal, MD, is Clinical Associate