Salman Akhtar

Bringing together the experiences of mistrust, jealousy, lack of love, shamelessness, regret, and despair, this far-reaching book elucidates human sorrow in striking sociocultural and clinical details. A Web of Sorrow by Salman Akhtar dives deeply into these themes, offering insight and understanding.

Silent Virtues addresses six areas of mental functioning: patience, curiosity, privacy, intimacy, humility, and dignity. Each area is elucidated with the help of clinical, literary, and cultural material. The book introduces a series of novel ideas, including: (i) The distinction between patience as a component of the therapeutic attitude and the exercise of patience as a specific technical intervention. (ii)...

Putting aside the narcissistic-masochistic aspiration of authoring a text on all the intricacies of in-depth psychotherapy, I have chosen to address five areas of difficulty in this enterprise. This relatively restricted focus has made it possible to tackle matters in their true complexity and intrigue. The loss of breadth is thus compensated by the gain in depth. The areas I...