Books by Salman Akhtar

This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things back together.

Joseph Breuer's celebrated patient, Anna O, designated psychoanalysis to be a 'talking cure'. She was correct in so far as psychoanalysis does place verbal exchange at the center stage. Psychoanalysis is a listening and talking cure. This book focuses upon analytic listening.

Covering psychotherapy, this book explicates initial assessment, boundaries, money, disruptions, and suicidal crises.