Main description:

Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award and the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship.

False Self: The Life of Masud Khan is the definitive biography of one of the most engaging and controversial figures of British psychoanalysis. To tell his story, Linda Hopkins makes use of Khan's unpublished Work Books. She conducted countless rich interviews with Khan's peers, relatives, and analysands to provide a balanced account of a talented and deeply conflicted individual.

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Introduction
Part 1. Colonial India (1924-1945)
Part 2. Early Years in London (1946-1959)
Part 3. The Divine Years: Khan at His Peak (1960-1964)
Part 4. Contributions to Psychoanalysis
Part 5. Starting to Fall (1965)
Part 6. Blessings and Humiliations 163 (1966-1970)
Part 7. And Worse 1 May be Yet (1971-1976)
Part 8. Nine Lives of a Cat (1977-1980)
Part 9. Majesty and Incapacity (1981-1989)
Postscript: Meeting Svetlana Beriosova
Endnotes
Bibliography: The Works of M. Masud R. Khan
References
Index

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