SALMAN AKHTAR, MD is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His more that 250 scientific publications include the books 'Broken Structures' (1992), 'Quest for Answers' (1995), 'Inner Torment' (1999), 'Immigration and Identity' (1999), 'New Clinical Realms' (2003), 'Objects of Our Desire' (2005), and 'Regarding Others' (2006). In addition, he has edited or co-edited twenty two books on diverse topics in psychiatry and psychoanalysis Dr Akhtar is the recipient of the Best Paper of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (1995), the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize (1996), The Irma Bland Award for Teaching Residents (2004) and Kun Po soo Award for Contributions to Transcultural Psychiatry (2004) from the American Psychiatric Association, the Edith Sabshin Award for Teaching (2000) from the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Sigmund Freud Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis (2000) from the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. An internationally sought lecturer, Dr Akhtar is the Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia and the author of six published volumes of poetry.