| Description |
xxvi, 525 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Early years in Montgomery -- A feudal upbringing -- A misunderstanding -- First years of training and personal life -- Settling in and starting analysis with Winnicott -- Early clinical work (interviews) -- Masud and Svetlana -- Working in a time of revolution -- Clinical work (interviews) -- The curative friendships -- Wladimir Granoff -- The stollers -- True self -- Regression to dependence -- Play therapy for adults -- Perversions and issues of sexual identity -- Editorial work and promotion of Winnicott -- The false self -- Disgrace in Amsterdam -- Terminating analysis -- Lying fallow -- Victor Smirnoff -- The dying of a marriage -- Clinical work (interviews) -- The most traumatic year -- The absence of Winnicott -- Bad dreams -- The alcoholic solution -- Clinical work (interviews) -- Moving on -- Fortune, good night -- Survival -- Analysis with Robert Stoller -- Murder, frenzy and madness: reading Dostoevsky -- Fortune smiles: last love -- Late clinical work (interviews) -- The shadow of a man -- Death of a madman -- Posthumous |
| Summary |
"A gifted analyst and generational bete noire, M. Masud R. Khan (1924-1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behavior the bigotry of his proponents-turned-detractors. The son of a wealthy landowner in rural India (now Pakistan), Khan grew up in a world of privilege that was radically different from the Western lifestyle he would adopt after moving to London. Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as a brilliant clinician, Khan was closely connected to some of the most creative and accomplished individuals of his time, including Donald Woods Winnicott, Anna Freud, Robert Stoller, Michael Redgrave, Julie Andrews, Rudolph Nureyev, and many more." |
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"Khan's subsequent downfall, which is narrated in this biography, offers insight not only into his psychic fragility but into the world of intrigue and deception pervasive in the psychoanalytic community of the time. In telling the story of this provocative man, Linda Hopkins makes use of unprecedented access to a complete copy of Khan's unpublished Work Books, which are quoted extensively. Additionally, she conducted innumerable interviews with Khan's peers, relatives, and analysands in order to provide an in-depth and balanced account of Masud Khan as a talented and deeply conflicted individual."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Khan, M. Masud R.
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Psychoanalysts -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Psychoanalysis.
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History, 20th Century.
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Psychoanalysis -- history.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2006007096 |
| ISBN |
9781590510698 |
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1590510690 |
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