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The Freud Museum is delighted to welcome Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O'Neill to discuss their edited volume, Anxiety: Clarification, Critique and Update. They will be joined in their discussion by the Freud Museum's Research Manager and book contributor Tom DeRose.
The evening will begin with a presentation by Tom DeRose on Freud's changing views on anxiety, considering the 100-year anniversary of the publication of Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. Then Salman Akhtar will discuss the distinctions between different types of anxiety and their relations to fears and phobias. Finally, Mary Kay O'Neill will discuss the theme of the professional anxieties of analysts. There will be opportunities for audience questions and discussion throughout the event.
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About the book:
Anxiety is one of the most central concepts in both the theoretical and clinical foundations of psychoanalysis. Thus, the study of anxiety is, in effect, the study of psychoanalysis itself. Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O’Neil have gathered together a thoughtful group of scholars to cover this challenging terrain. The book opens with two chapters that lay out the groundwork for things to come: the first offers succinct definitions of the plethora of psychiatric and psychoanalytic terms pertaining to this emotion; the second elucidates Freud’s changing views of anxiety. These chapters are followed by independent discourses on separation anxiety and castration anxiety that attempt to describe, critique, and update these well-established notions. A section on cultural matters follows which includes essays on performance and climate anxieties. Part IV focuses on the clinical process and provides three pithy discourses on the entanglement of anxiety with enactment, aging, and trauma. The fifth and final part explores the analyst’s clinical and professional anxieties.
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Speakers:
Salman Akhtar was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. He is Emeritus Professor at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 118 books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis, including his most recent: Freud in Istanbul: Turkish contributions to Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.
Mary Kay O’Neil is supervising and training psychoanalyst of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis and a registered psychologist in private practice in Toronto. She is a member of the TIP Curriculum Committee and of the Centre for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, and formally North American representative on the IPA Board. She has served on a number of local, national and international committees and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is also the author of several books, including The Unsung Psychoanalyst: The Quiet Influence of Ruth Easser, and Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity.
Tom DeRose is Research Manager at the Freud Museum London. His research focusses on the cultural and philosophical aspects of Freudian theory. His most recent publication is ‘Freud’s Changing Views on Sadomasochism’, published in, ed. Akhtar and Crilley, ‘The Joy of Torment’ (Karnac, 2024). His has recently written chapters on Freud’s theory of Anxiety and Psychoanalysis and the detective novel, and is currently working on a chapter on Freud and Africa.
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