Tales of Transformation

‘I enjoyed hearing about the process of psychotherapy, the delicate balancing act of therapeutic interpretation and the thought processes behind disclosure. [...] Overall, this book allows the reader to see one analysts 50 year journey and witnessed the ever changing theoretical landscape of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy’

-- Nick Campion, integrative psychotherapist in Derby, 'Therapy Today' September 2022

Salman Akhtar is a brilliant scholar, a superb integrator of ideas, and one of the most original minds in modern psychoanalysis.

-- Peter Fonagy

Salman Akhtar is one of the most learned but also lyrical and imaginative medical men who ever graced the field of psychoanalysis.

-- Rosemary Balsam

If, by a magical process, you were able to generate a unique individual with an encyclopedic mind, an indefatigable search for scientific knowledge, a superb scholar and teacher, and a poet able to movingly convey human ecstasies and tragedy, you would have created a replica of Salman Akhtar.

-- Otto Kernberg

In my very first meeting with Salman Akhtar, whom I had already read, I was amazed by his kind simplicity allied with princely refinement. Salman is a poet, a storyteller and has a rare quality that I would call ‘heartfelt civility.’

-- Marilia Aisenstein

His amiability and enthusiasm, his curiosity and creativity, his eagerness to share and teach make Salman Akhtar an admirable psychoanalyst and a memorable man.

-- Vamik Vo