| Title | : | False Self: The Life of Masud Khan |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (696 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590513037 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 568 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2008-01-01 |
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Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award and the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic ScholarshipThe definitive biography of one of the most engaging figures of British psychoanalysis.Both 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. Khan's subsequent downfall, which is powerfully narrated in this biography, offers interesting insights not only into K
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly Tall, handsome, rich and eccentric, Masud Khan (1924–1989) was a striking figure in London psychoanalytic circles during the 1960s and '70s. The Muslim Punjabi was, Hopkins says, the "principal disciple" of the great British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott. "The two men were a study in contrasts," writes Hopkins, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She intricately dissects their father-son/analyst-analysand relationship, showing how Winnicott may have failed to address the pathological traits that ultimately destroyed his protégé. Khan flourished in London for many years, socially, personally and professionally, gaining an international reputation as a psychoanalytic theorist. But he ended his life in deep disgrace, a lonely alcoholic who had been ousted by the British Psycho-Analytical Society for inappropriate social relationships with analysands, and he authored an anti-Semitic tract. Hopkins draws on Khan's extensive journals and corre
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