False Self: The Life of Masud Khan

Author(s) : Linda Hopkins

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Publisher : Karnac Books
Published : November 2022
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 544
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 96566
ISBN 13 : 9781913494827
ISBN 10 : 9781913494

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Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as a brilliant clinician, M. Masud R. Khan (1924-1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behaviour 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 radically different from the Western lifestyle he would adopt after moving to London, where we was closely connected to some of the most creative and accomplished people of his time, including Donald Woods Winnicott, Anna Freud, Robert Stoller , Richard Redgrave, Julie Andrews, Rudolph Nureyev and many more. Khan's subsequent downfall reveals not only his psychic fragility but also the world of intrigues and deceptions in the psychoanalytic community of the time.

In telling the story of this provocative man, Linda Hopkins makes use of unprecedented access to 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 man.

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This scholarly, lucid book offers a balanced view of Khan’s rich and extremely problematic life and work. Linda Hopkins has done a masterful job of investigating the complexities of history and psychology.
Joyce Slochower, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., author of Holding and Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Collisions

If I were a snob, a liar, a drunk, a philanderer, an anti-Semite, a violent bully, a poseur and a menace to the vulnerable, I would want Linda Hopkins to write my biography. Masud Khan was all of these things. ... [Hopkins] sees his life as a tragedy lived “on a scale grand enough to match his favorite characters: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dostoevsky’s Prince Myshkin.
Amy Bloom, The New York Times Review of Books

Sensible, intelligent, scrupulously researched, and clear as a bell. This is an important biography, for its reference points are the relevance and standing of psychoanalysis in today’s world, the crossroads between Western and Muslim culture, and ultimately the contemporary conflict between dramatic image and authentic life. Linda Hopkins has made an extraordinary and successful attempt to get Khan’s larger-than-life character into ordinary human proportions, where he becomes a flawed man living a flawed life.
Bob Hinshelwood, Ph.D., professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex

False Self is a biographical gem, compelling, brilliant, and evocative. Dr. Hopkins provides us with a compassionate exploration of the depths of human suffering and frailties in the context of Masud Khan’s life, resonating deeply with our own souls and psyche.
Purnima Mehta, M.D.

This scholarly, lucid book offers a balanced view of Khan’s rich and extremely problematic life and work. Linda Hopkins has done a masterful job of investigating the complexities of history and psychology.
Joyce Slochower, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., author of Holding and Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Collisions

Linda Hopkins paints a remarkable portrait not only of a pivotal individual, but of a cadre of professionals who had a major hand in shaping the psychoanalysis of then and now.
Margaret Crastnopol, Ph.D., cofounder and faculty, Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis, Seattle

Linda Hopkins demonstrates how seamlessly threads of inspired genius and impaired living are woven together in the life of Masud Khan. While admirably empathic toward Khan’s vulnerability, she does not whitewash his accountability. There is so much to be learned from Hopkins’s labor of love, and we all owe her a debt of gratitude.
Dodi Goldman, Ph.D., William Alanson White Foundation; author, In Search of the Real: The Origins and Originality of D.W. Winnicott

I didn’t want this book to end. A hush fell with the last page, the hush of a shadow of life. I can’t thank Linda Hopkins enough for the truth of this book, the detailed care, the love of life that it reveals.
Michael Eigen, Ph.D., author of The Sensitive Self, The Electrified Tightrope and Lust

Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Introduction

Part 1. Colonial India (1924–1945)
1. Early Years in Montgomery
2. A Feudal Upbringing

Part 2. Early Years in London (1946–1959)
3. A Misunderstanding
4. First Years of Training and Personal Life in the West
5. Settling In and Starting Analysis with Winnicott
6. Early Clinical Work (Interviews)

Part 3. The Divine Years: Khan at His Peak (1960–1964)
7. Masud and Svetlana
8. Working in a Time of Revolution
9. Clinical Work (Interviews)
10. The Curative Friendships
11. Wladimir Granoff
12. The Stollers

Part 4. Contributions to Psychoanalysis
13. True Self
14. Regression to Dependence
15. Play Therapy for Adults
16. Perversions and Issues of Sexual Identity
17. Editorial Work and Promotion of Winnicott

Part 5. Starting to Fall (1965)
18. The False Self
19. Disgrace in Amsterdam

Part 6. Blessings and Humiliations 163 (1966–1970)
20. Losing His Anchors
21. Lying Fallow
22. The Dying of a Marriage
23. Clinical Work (Interviews)
24. Victor Smirnoff

Part 7. And Worse 1 May be Yet (1971–1976)
25. The Most Traumatic Year
26. The Absence of Winnicott
27. Bad Dreams
28. The Alcoholic Solution
29. Clinical Work (Interviews)
30. Moving On
31. Fortune, Good Night

Part 8. Nine Lives of a Cat (1977–1980)
32. Survival
33. Analysis with Robert Stoller
34. Murder, Frenzy and Madness: Reading Dostoevsky
35. Fortune Smiles: Last Love
36. Late Clinical Work (Interviews)

Part 9. Majesty and Incapacity (1981–1989)
37. The Shadow of a Man
38. Death of a Madman
39. Posthumous

Postscript: Meeting Svetlana Beriosova
Endnotes
Bibliography: The Works of M. Masud R. Khan
References
Index

About the Author(s)

Linda Hopkins, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a member of teaching faculty at the International Psychotherapy Institute and co-editor of Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972 with Steven Kuchuck (Karnac Books, 2022).

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