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 To tell his story, Linda Hopkins makes use of Khan’s unpublished Work Books.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.
Table of Content
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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About the author
Linda Hopkins, Ph D, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a member of teaching faculty at the International Psychotherapy Institute and co-editor of Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972 with Steven Kuchuck (Karnac Books, 2022).
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