Dr. AkhtarSalman 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. Editor's Introduction: Mothers
  2. Normal and pathological generosity
  3. Sacrifi Psychodynamic, cultural and clinical aspects
  4. In these pages
  5. Editors' Introduction
  6. Developmental tasks of early marriage: Barefoot in the park (1967), raising arizona (1987), the quiet man (1952)
  7. Editor's introduction: The aftermath of suicide
  8. Editorial: Muslims of the world: Less familiar narratives
  9. Happiness: Origins, forms, and technical relevance
  10. Love, sex, and marriage in the setting of pathological narcissism
  11. Identity in the contemporary world
  12. The Identity Consolidation Inventory (ICI): Development and application of a questionnaire for assessing the structuralization of individual identity
  13. Diversity without fanfare: Some reflections on contemporary psychoanalytic technique
  14. Four roadblocks in approaching Masud Khan.
  15. Identity, destiny and terrorism: The effect of social terror on identity formation
  16. Technical challenges faced by the immigrant psychoanalyst
  17. Immigrant sex: The transport of affection and sensuality across cultures
  18. Theoretical and technical approches to the clinical case: Advantages and disadvantages of present-day pluralism
  19. When evening falls: The immigrant's encounter with middle and old age
  20. In these pages...

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