Freud in Istanbul

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, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His more than 400 publications include 105 books, of which the following 22 are solo-authored: 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), The Book of Emotions (2012), 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 (2021), and In Leaps and Bounds (2022).  Dr Akhtar has delivered many prestigious invited lectures including a Plenary Address at the 2nd International Congress of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders in Oslo, Norway (1991), an Invited Plenary Paper at the 2nd International Margaret S. Mahler Symposium in Cologne, Germany (1993), an Invited Plenary Paper at the Rencontre Franco-Americaine de Psychanalyse meeting in Paris, France (1994), a Keynote Address at the 43rd IPA Congress in Rio de Janiero, Brazil (2005), the Plenary Address at the 150th Freud Birthday Celebration sponsored by the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society and the Embassy of Austria in Leiden, Holland (2006), the Inaugural Address at the first IPA-Asia Congress in Beijing, China (2010), and the Plenary Address at the Fall Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2017.  Dr Akhtar is the recipient of numerous awards including 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) and Irma Bland Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of Psychiatric Residents in the country (2005). He received the highly prestigious Sigourney Award (2012) for distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis. In 2103, he gave the Commencement Address at graduation ceremonies of the Smith College School of Social Work in Northampton, MA.  Dr Akhtar’s books have been translated in many languages, including German, Italian, Korean, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish.  A true Renaissance man, Dr Akhtar 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 11 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. His Selected Papers (Volumes I-X) were recently published and released at a festive event held at the Freud Museum London.

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