Freud in Istanbul: Turkish Contributions to Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : July 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 400
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97932
- ISBN 13 : 9781800133204
- ISBN 10 : 1800133200
Also by Salman Akhtar
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A vital book that seeks to place Turkish contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice on the international stage from which, until now, it has been curiously absent. It includes chapters from those living and working in Turkey and from those representing the Turkish diaspora, and from both established and emerging leaders in the field.
With contributions from Salman Akhtar, Müge Alkan, Gülgün Alptekin, Mine Özgüroglu Çukurçesme, Yavuz Erten, Cemile Serin Gürdal, Elif Nisan Ilkmen, Ülkü Elif Gurisik, Bella Habip, Cüneyt Iscan, Süreyya Iscan, T. Byram Karasu, M. Sagman Kayatekin, Z. Emel Kayatekin, Pinar Limnili Özeren, Talat Parman, Kutlughan Soyubol, Duygu Tekgul-Akin, Isil Vahip, Vamik D. Volkan, and Ayla Yazici.
The book is divided into four parts. The first looks at the history of psychoanalysis in Turkey. The second investigates the psychology of mothers, fathers, siblings, and the adolescent phase in Turkey. The third addresses the complexities and nuances of identity formation, nostalgic rumination, massive trauma, and female aggression in the context of Turkish society at large, including the use of film and literature. The fourth pertains to technical clinical issues, dealing with matters as diverse as grief, spirituality in the context of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, tenacious maternal transferences and the handling of nonverbal material in the clinical session, to name but a few. While the book is psychoanalytic, not all contributors are analysts; many belong to other fields including psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and cultural anthropology. Thus, this is a book not only for psychoanalysts, but also for members of those fields, psychotherapists, and anyone with an interest in Turkish culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the editor and contributors
Introduction
Part I: Historical backdrop
1. Turkey psychoanalyzed and psychoanalysis Turkified
Kutluğhan Soyubol
2. Crosscurrents between the development of psychoanalysis and self-psychology in Turkey
Yavuz Erten
3. Psychoanalysis, Turkey, and the IPA
Vamık D. Volkan
Part II: Developmental observations
4. The nuances of mother–daughter relationship in Turkish culture
Müge Alkan and Salman Akhtar
5. Fatherhood and Turkish culture
Cüneyt İşcan and Süreyya İşcan
6. Sibling relationship and some thoughts on siblings in Turkish culture
Pınar Limnili Özeren
7. The absence of adolescent-like traits in the adult psyche
Talat Parman
Part III: Cultural studies
8. The multilayered archeology of Turkish identity
M. Sağman Kayatekin and Z. Emel Kayatekin
9. An exploration of hysteria through the Turkish movie Nefret (1984)
Elif Nisan İlkmen
10. Fact, fiction and value in Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence (2008)
Duygu Tekgül-Akın
11. Suffering and memory of Holocaust survivors in Eytan İpeker’s The Pageant (2020)
Bella Habip
Part IV: Clinical reports
12. Incest and the role of silent mothers
Ülkü Elif Gürışık
13. Art as a way of coping with the psychotic self
Ayla Yazıcı
14. Sounds, smells, and sundry amorphous material in the clinical hour
Cemile Serin Gürdal
15. Transforming the ‘enslaving mother’ image to ‘liberating mother’ image through the 'analyst’s womb’ in transference
Gülgün Alptekin
16. Technical challenges with bereavement in the course of an ongoing analysis
Işıl Vahip
17. Spiritual elements in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
T. Byram Karasu
18. Some thoughts on tele-analysis in Turkey
Mine Özgüroğlu Çukurçeşme
References
Index
About the Author(s)
Salman Akhtar, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His more than 450 publications include twenty-three solo authored books – Broken Structures (1992), Quest for Answers (1995), Inner Torment (1999), Immigration and Identity (1999), New Clinical Realms (2003), Objects of Our Desire (2005), Regarding Others (2007), Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy (2009), The Damaged Core (2009), Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009), Immigration and Acculturation (2011), Matters of Life and Death (2011), Psychoanalytic Listening (2013), Good Stuff (2013), Sources of Suffering (2014), No Holds Barred (2016), A Web of Sorrow (2017), Mind, Culture, and Global Unrest (2018), Silent Virtues (2019), Tales of Transformation (2022), In Leaps and Bounds (2022), and In Short (2024) – as well as sixty-nine edited or coedited volumes in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Dr. Akhtar has delivered many prestigious addresses and lectures including, most significantly, the inaugural address at the first IPA-Asia Congress in Beijing, China (2010). Dr. Akhtar is the recipient of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Best Paper of the Year Award (1995), the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize (1996), the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians’ Sigmund Freud Award (2000), the American College of Psychoanalysts’ Laughlin Award (2003), the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Edith Sabshin Award (2000), Columbia University’s Robert Liebert Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis (2004), the American Psychiatric Association’s Kun Po Soo Award (2004), the Irma Bland Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of Psychiatric Residents in the country (2005), and the Nancy Roeske Award (2012). He received the Sigourney Award (2013), which is the most prestigious honor in the field of psychoanalysis. Dr. Akhtar is an internationally sought speaker and teacher, and his books have been translated in many languages, including German, Turkish, and Romanian. His interests are wide and he has served as the film review editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is currently serving as the book review editor for the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. He has published eighteen collections of poetry and serves as a scholar-in-residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. His Selected Papers (Vols I–X) were recently published and released at a festive event held at the Freud House & Museum in London.
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