Silent Virtues: Patience, Curiosity, Privacy, Intimacy, Humility, and Dignity

ISBN-13: 9781138332386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 180 str.

Salman Akhtar

Opis

Silent Virtues addresses six areas of mental functioning, namely, patience, curiosity, privacy, intimacy, humility, and dignity. Each of the areas is elucidated with the help of clinical, literary, and cultural material. This important book by a renowned author will appeal to all readers with an interest in psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; PART I: SENSING AND SEARCHING; CHAPTER ONE: Patience; CHAPTER TWO: Curiosity; PART II: RESTRAINING AND RELATING: CHAPTER THREE: Privacy; CHAPTER FOUR: Intimacy; PART III: TITRATING AND TRANSCENDING; CHAPTER FIVE: Humility; CHAPTER SIX: Dignity; REFERENCES; INDEX

O autorze

Salman Akhtar, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the editorial boards of many psychoanalytic journals and has published over 90 books, including eleven collections of poetry. He is the recipient of the prestigious Sigourney Award (2012) For Outstanding Contributions to Psychoanalysis.