Salman Akhtar

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring a brutal attempt on his li

Op de ochtend van 12 augustus 2022 stond Salman Rushdie op het podium bij het Chautauqua-instituut, klaar om een lezing te geven over hoe belangrijk h

She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creators . . . 'A total pleasure' SUNDAY TIMES

Psychoanalysis has investigated character traits since its foundation by Freud but there are still those as yet uncovered. Eight neglected traits form

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong a

Boven Engeland ontploft een gekaapt vliegtuig. Tussen plastic bekertjes, zuurstofmaskers, afgerukte ledematen en herinneringen vallen twee figuren ric

Saleem Sinai komt op 15 augustus 1947, klokslag middernacht, ter wereld, precies op het moment dat India onafhankelijk wordt. Hij is een van de duizen

In ‘Taal van de waarheid’ van Salman Rushdie worden inzichtelijke en inspirerende essays, kritieken en toespraken bijeengebracht die zijn status als e

Het epische verhaal van een vrouw die een mythisch rijk tot leven ademt, om er vervolgens in de loop der eeuwen door vernietigd te worden – ontsproten

Salman Akhtar presents three rich essays brimming with psychoanalytic theory on personality development and how such knowledge enhances treatment. Ess

Tautly stretched over the chasm between idolization and iconoclasm, restraint and audacity, and the man-animal distinction, the poems contained in thi

Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement. When we b

Bringing together the experiences of mistrust, jealousy, lack of love, shamelessness, regret, and despair, this far-reaching book elucidates human sor

In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst is wise, uplifting and inspiring. Salman Akhtar brings his talent for poetic literature to gift us 111 pith

This tightly edited volume opens a new vista in psychoanalysis by focusing upon positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. The realms it cove

Noting that the inconsolable, relentless, and coercive dimensions of such hunger have profoundly destructive impact upon the self and its objects, Gre

Though references to it are scattered in the writings of Klein and Winnicott, the topic of greed has drawn meagre attention from contemporary psychoan

Joseph Breuer's celebrated patient, Anna O., designated psychoanalysis to be a "talking cure". She was correct insofar as psychoanalysis does place ve