Salman Akhtar, MD, was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications including books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis and several collections of poetry. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.

Stuart W. Twemlow, MD is medical director of the Hope Program, director of the Peaceful Schools and Communities Project of the Child and Family Program, the Menninger Clinic; professor of psychiatry of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; and faculty member of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.

FOREWORD BY OTTO F. KERNBERG

INTRODUCTION

Part I: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Understanding of Mankind

CHAPTER ONE Anthropology Robert Paul

CHAPTER TWO Religion James Lomax and Nathan Carlin

CHAPTER THREE Philosophy Douglas Kirsner

CHAPTER FOUR History Henry Zvi Lothane

CHAPTER FIVE Large Group Identity Vamik D. Volkan

CHAPTER SIX Minorities Salman Akhtar

CHAPTER SEVEN Community and Community Psychoanalysis Stuart W. Twemlow

Part II: Psychoanalysis, Biology, and the Human Body

CHAPTER EIGHT: Evolutionary Psychology Kathryn Baselice and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr.

CHAPTER NINE Medicine Julian Stern

CHAPTER TEN Neuropsychoanalysis Charles Fisher and Richard Kessler

CHAPTER ELEVEN Sports Michael Brearley

Part III: Psychoanalysis and Societal Turbulence

CHAPTER TWELVE Poverty Neil Altman

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Migration Salman Akhtar

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Race, Ethnicity, and Inter-Group Conflict Ricardo Ainslie

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Prejudice Salman Akhtar

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Terror and Terrorism John, Lord Alderdice

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Childhood trauma Steven Marans

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN School Bullying Stuart W. Twemlow, Frank C. Sacco, and Tanya Bennett

CHAPTER NINETEEN Violence James Gilligan

Part IV: Psychoanalysis and Social Praxis

CHAPTER TWENTY Education Jonathan Cohen

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Consultation to Organizations William Myerson, Harriet Wolfe, Larry Hirschhorn, Daniel Myerson, and Ernest Fruge

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Health Policy James C. Pyles and Robert L. Pyles

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Negotiation Kimberlyn Leary

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Prevention in Mental Health Henri Parens, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Karl-Heinz Brisch

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Cyberpsychology John Suler

Part V: Psychoanalysis and Fine Arts

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Painting Mary Wright

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Sculpture Harvey Giesbrecht

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Photography Joseph Lichtenberg

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Architecture Bethany J. Hamilton, Elizabeth Danze, and Stephen M. Sonnenberg

CHAPTER THIRTY Poetry Eugene J. Mahon

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Fiction Stanley Coen

Part VI: Psychoanalysis and Performing Arts

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Music Julie Jaffee Nagel

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Theatre Jill Savege Scharff

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Dance Ann Smolen

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Cinema Bruce Sklarew