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June 6th, 13th, 20th 2026

Psychoanalytic Contributions of Masud Khan

Course description

This 3 part seminar session will open with providing the audience a brief biographical sketch of the Indo-Pakistani British psychoanalyst, Masud Khan. 

It will highlight the personal strengths and weakness of this enfant terrible of psychoanalysis as well as how the downfall of this extraordinarily talented man was co-created by the British psychoanalytic community. 


Then, the seminar will elucidate Khan's important contributions to our understanding of psychic development, especially his notions of (i) cumulative trauma, (ii) idolization of the self, as distinct from its idealization, (iii) symbiotic omnipotence and (iv) collated internal object. Structural and dynamic concepts proposed by Khan will also be discussed. These include (i) phobic and counterphobic mechanisms in schizoid personalities, (ii) 'happenings', (iii) alienation in perversion, and (iv) lying fallow. 


Therapeutically, Khan's emphasis on the element of play in psychoanalytic work with adults and the antecedents of this idea in Ferenczi and Winnicott will be addressed as well.


Each seminar will be combination of lecture and Q&A. 

Who is this course for?

  • This seminar series is reserved for pre-licensed and licensed Asian and Asian American clinicians

Details

Dates:

  • Saturday June 6, 9am - 1030am PST / 12pm - 130pm EST 
  • Sunday June 13, 9am - 1030am PST / 12pm - 130pm EST 
  • Saturday June 20, 9am - 1030am PST / 12pm - 130pm EST


Fees:

  • $120 for pre-licensed and community mental health clinicians
  • $160 for licensed clinicians (LCSWs, MFTs, PsyDs, PhDs)
  • $200 for MDs, LPs


Fees will increase $50 on all categories after 5/1. 


Virtual. On Zoom. No recordings available. 


Please read participant's FAQs before registering.


To Register

Instructor

Salman Akhtar, MD (he/him) is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training & Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. 


He has over 450 publications to his credit including 212 books (41 of which are solo-authored). He has served on the editorial boards of all three major psychoanalytic journals (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly). 


Dr. Akhtar has given Plenary Addresses at both the IPA and the APsA Meetings and has received the highly prestigious Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis. 


He is a published poet in three languages and serves as Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Not at this time.

We encourage you to attend all 3 seminars as the topics are interconnected and build on each other. But you can certainly just attend one or two. For administrative ease, the seminars are being offered as a series and cannot be "purchased" individually.  

There will be no recording of these seminars. 

We believe in valuing the time and work of our instructors. Instructors are paid and fees also go to support Center's operating costs for current and future programming.  

We want to offer a space for Asian / Asian American clinicians to be, to learn, to question, to create, and to support one another.  And, from this space, our hope is that we can have more nuanced conversations and in depth explorations of the intersection of Asian subjectivities and psychoanalysis.


Our one time events are open to all.  And, in the future, we might offer courses for non-Asian clinicians. 

Full refund will be given up to 15 days prior to class start minus a processing fee of $50. If less than 15 days, $100 processing fee would be charged.


No refunds once classes begin or for missed classes. 


In the event that the Center has to cancel the series, full refund will be provided. 

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