- Salman Akhtar
Salman Akhtar (born
July 31 ,1946 inLucknow, India )cite book|last=Hellinga|first=Gerben|coauthors=Hellinga, J B van Luyn, Henk-Jan Dalewijk|title=Personalities: Master Clinicians Confront the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorders|publisher=Uitgeverij Boom|date=2000|pages=p26|isbn=9053525513|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4SyNJkffx8MC&pg=PA25&dq=%22Salman+Akhtar%22&lr=lang_en&num=50&as_brr=3&ei=ABFZSJujGaiSjgGgybGIDA&sig=q5pYoi7gv9wm1y-45cx4yb1r9Gg#PPA26,M1] is a psychoanalystcite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A334-2004Apr9 |title=Wrath Over a Hindu God (washingtonpost.com) |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= 2004-04-10|format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/5ZIHStbpw|archivedate= 2008-07-13|quote= |accessdate=2008-07-13] who also holds a professorship at theJefferson Medical College inPhiladelphia .He was educated at
Colvin Taluqdars' College inLucknow andAligarh University before moving toChandigarh where he completed his training inpsychiatry . In 1973, he left for theU.S. and trained inpsychoanalysis .Akhtar is also a poet and published author; he has published 6 volumes of poetry in English and Urdu and authored or edited more than 30 books on diverse topics in psychology,psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.He is highly sought public speaker and has addressed audiences at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Emory, and other major universities as well as the United Nations.
He is the son of the renowned
Urdu poet,Jan Nisar Akhtar cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/01/08/stories/2004010800590300.htm |title=The Hindu : Tumhare Naam, with love |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= 2004-01-08|format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/5ZIHHO6ti|archivedate=2008-07-13 |quote= |accessdate=2008-07-13] brother of lyricistJaved Akhtar .Notes
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