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Truth Salman Akhtar

Truth By Salman Akhtar

Truth by Salman Akhtar

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A book that investigates the meaning of truth in all its forms: in physical and psychical sense, in prose and poetry, in history and law, in politics and philosophy, and in various phases of the human life span. A topic of great interest to many disciplines in the humanities and to mental health clinicians working with its varied manifestations.

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Truth: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms by Salman Akhtar

This edited collection gathers together erudite and considered contributions from Salman Akhtar, Cobi Avshalom, Brett Clarke, Mali Mann, Gila Ofer, Thomas Ogden, Louis Rothschild, Batya Shoshani, Michael Shoshani, Naama Shoshani-Breda, Ann Smolen, Donald Spence, Richard Waugaman, Thomas Wolman, and Vamk D. Volkan.

Fifteen distinguished authors bring together their vast experience as psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, social workers, and psychotherapists to present a nuanced and in-depth investigation into the concept of truth. Divided into five parts, the book begins with a thoughtful discussion from Brett Clarke on what truth means and its role in psychoanalysis. It then moves into the realm of development, looking at truth from the viewpoint of children, adolescents, and adults. Stepping from development to culture, the works of Shakespeare, Heidegger and Freud are brought into the debate alongside the relationship of truth with individual and large-group psychology. Next come four chapters taking truth into the clinical realm, grounding theory in practice. The book is brought to completion by an epilogue from Louis Rothschild answering the vital question: Truly, what does all this mean?

A must-read book for practising clinicians and academics in the mental health and humanities fields that investigates the wide range of theories on truth, how they have changed over the years, and their practical applications.

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Bion said that the psyche needs truth to grow the way the body needs alimentation. But what is truth in psychoanalysis? To whom does it belong and by what means do we come to know it? Is truth found? Created? Given the ineffable quality of psychic reality, the determination of what is true in the clinical situation is complex and can be very elusive. Both analyst and patient are inevitably confronted with the essential, constitutive tension at the heart of [psychoanalytic] theory and must mediate between a language of force and energy, on the one hand, and a language of reasons, intentions, and meanings, on the other. This wide-ranging volume offers readers at all levels of analytic experience an encyclopedic and authoritative exploration of the problematics of truth that should prove essential for the continued development of our psychoanalytic theories and clinical models as we move forward into the twenty-first century.

-- Howard B. Levine, MD Editor-in-Chief, The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series, and co-editor of 'Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self'

Truth has always been at the heart of psychoanalysis. But given its enigmatic nature and its location in the land of ghostly schemata, can we really arrive at it? What is manufactured truth and how is it to be thought of in the clinic where narrative, historical, and poetic truth jostle against each other? Here is a moving homage to this vexing subject by Salman Akhtar, who creates a prismatic meditation by weaving together essays that are as wide-ranging as they are lively and profound.

-- Nilofer Kaul, PhD Training and Supervising Analyst, New Delhi, India, and author of 'Platos Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice'

As Salman Akhtar points out in this volume, the notion of truth is something we tend to take for granted, but is in fact an ill-defined concept when one tries to pin it down. This volume brings together a number of distinguished psychoanalytic authors who challenge us to reassess our notions of truth, both within psychoanalysis and beyond. In this age of alternative facts, such a volume is sorely needed and will be of interest not only to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, but to those coming from the humanities as well.

-- Dimitris J. Jackson, Training Analyst and Member, Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society, Representative, Europe Region, International Psychoanalytical Association

About Salman Akhtar

Salman Akhtar, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His nearly 400 publications include 99 books, of which the following 20 are solo-authored: Broken Structures (1992), Quest for Answers (1995), Inner Torment (1999), Immigration and Identity (1999), New Clinical Realms (2003), Objects of Our Desire (2005), Regarding Others (2007), Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy (2009), The Damaged Core (2009), Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009), Immigration and Acculturation (2011), Matters of Life and Death (2011), The Book of Emotions (2012), Psychoanalytic Listening (2013), Good Stuff (2013), Sources of Suffering (2014), No Holds Barred (2016), A Web of Sorrow (2017), Mind, Culture, and Global Unrest (2018), and Silent Virtues (2019).

Dr Akhtar has delivered many prestigious invited lectures including a Plenary Address at the 2nd International Congress of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders in Oslo, Norway (1991), an Invited Plenary Paper at the 2nd International Margaret S. Mahler Symposium in Cologne, Germany (1993), an Invited Plenary Paper at the Rencontre Franco-Americaine de Psychanalyse meeting in Paris, France (1994), a Keynote Address at the 43rd IPA Congress in Rio de Janiero, Brazil (2005), the Plenary Address at the 150th Freud Birthday Celebration sponsored by the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society and the Embassy of Austria in Leiden, Holland (2006), and the Inaugural Address at the first IPA-Asia Congress in Beijing, China (2010).

Dr Akhtar is the recipient of numerous awards including the American Psychoanalytic Associations Edith Sabshin Award (2000), Columbia Universitys Robert Liebert Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis (2004), the American Psychiatric Associations Kun Po Soo Award (2004) and Irma Bland Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of Psychiatric Residents in the country (2005). He received the highly prestigious Sigourney Award (2012) for distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis. In 2103, he gave the Commencement Address at graduation ceremonies of the Smith College School of Social Work in Northampton, MA.

Dr Akhtars books have been translated into many languages, including German, Italian, Korean, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish. A true Renaissance man, Dr Akhtar has 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 has published 9 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the editor and contributors
Introduction

Prologue
1. The meaning of truth and the truth about meaning in psychoanalysis
Brett Clarke

Part I: Developmental Realm
2. Children and truth
Mali Mann
3. The search for truth in adolescent rebellion
Ann Smolen
4. Truth in later life
Thomas Wolman

Part II: Cultural Realm
5. Nothing is Truer than Truth and Shakespeare
Richard Waugaman
6. Explorations into truth, anxiety, and death by Heidegger and Freud
Michael Shoshani, Batya Shoshani, and Naama Shoshani-Breda
7. Finding the truth in individual and large group psychology
Vamk D. Volkan

Part III: Clinical Realm
8. Narrative truth and theoretical truth
Donald Spence
9. What is true and whose idea was it?
Thomas Ogden
10. Truth heals, if one can tolerate it
Cobi Avshalom and Gila Ofer
11. Seven types of truth and their clinical relevance
Salman Akhtar

Epilogue
12. Truly, what does all this mean?
Louis Rothschild

References
Index

Additional information

NGR9781800131422
9781800131422
1800131429
Truth: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms by Salman Akhtar
Salman Akhtar
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Karnac Books
2023-11-16
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