Masud Khan: The Myth and the Reality

By Roger Willoughby

Few psychoanalysts from the latter half of the twentieth century have been as intellectually prolific, charismatic and ultimately scandalous as Masud Khan. Clinical practice and teaching went alongside his authoring over 60 published papers, as well as numerous reviews, and editing significant portions of Winnicott's literary output and that of other key luminaries within the psychoanalytical canon. This book is the first in-depth scholarly account of his life. It charts his beginnings in the Punjab, where he submerged himself in English literature during the turbulent decades before independence and partition, through his psychoanalytic apprenticeship with Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott in post-war London and a spectacular climb to international prominence, to his final years of womanizing, depression, alcoholism, and cancer. As the story of Khan's life here unfolds, so does consideration of his key ideas and papers. His early work includes important discussions on the s

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853437247
• ISBN13: 9781853437243
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.