Salman Akhtar, MD
Director, Adult Outpatient Services
Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Contact Dr. Akhtar

833 Chestnut Street, Suite 210
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-2547
(215) 503-2856 (fax)

Medical School
J.N. Medical School, Aligarh (U.P.), India (1968)

Residency
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA (1976)

Fellowship
Psychoanalytic Training, Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute (1986)

Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certified in Psychiatry

University Appointment
Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Hospital Appointment
Director, Adult Outpatient Services, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Research and Clinical/Academic Interests
Personality Disorders; long term effects of childhood trauma; immigration and exile; psychoanalyisis

Publications

1. Multi-locus interactions of vascular homeostasis genes in essential hypertension: A gender-based study
2. Identity in the contemporary world
3. The Identity Consolidation Inventory (ICI): Development and application of a questionnaire for assessing the structuralization of individual identity
4. Diversity without fanfare: Some reflections on contemporary psychoanalytic technique
5. Identity, destiny and terrorism: The effect of social terror on identity formation
6. Technical challenges faced by the immigrant psychoanalyst
7. Immigrant sex: The transport of affection and sensuality across cultures
8. Theoretical and technical approches to the clinical case: Advantages and disadvantages of present-day pluralism
9. In these pages...
10. When evening falls: The immigrant's encounter with middle and old age
11. Forgiveness: Origins, dynamics, psychopathology, and technical relevance
12. Why no sex?
13. From schisms through synthesis to informed oscillation: An attempt at integrating some diverse aspects of psychoanalytic technique
14. Mental pain and the cultural ointment of poetry
15. The Immigrant, the Exile, and the Experience of Nostalgia
16. The psychodynamic dimension of terrorism
17. The distinction between needs and wishes: Implications for psychoanalytic theory and technique
18. Visiting the father's grave
19. From simplicity through contradiction to paradox: The evolving psychic reality of the borderline patient in treatment
20. 'Someday ...' and 'if only ...' fantasies: Pathological optimism and inordinate nostalgia as related forms of idealization

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