The Privacy of the Self

The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of Masud Khan's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. He was nurtured in the tradition of Anna Freud, John Rickman and D.W. Winnicott, but his contribution to psychoanalytic literature was a distinctive and personal one. What emerges from this book is the natural and private crystallization of his experiences with his patients and teachers.As he says in his preface: "Psychoanalysis is an extremely private discipline of sensibility and skill. The practice of psychoanalysis multiplies this privacy into a specialized relationship between two persons, who through the very nature of their exclusivity with each other change each other. The first thing I wish to say about my work reported in these papers is that my patients have helped me become and personalize my potential of thought, affectivity and effort into a way of life that I find deeply satisfying. Had I followed another career perhaps my life would have been more dramatic and varied, but certainly not fuller. My relation with my patients has taught me the humility and necessity of the need of the other for one to be and become oneself."Two further collections of Masud Khan's papers, Alienation in Perversions and Hidden Selves: Between Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis, are available in Mansfield Library editions.

Table of Contents:
By the same author , Preface , Theoretical Papers , Clinical Aspects of the Schizoid Personality: Affects and Technique , Dream Psychology and the Evolution of the Psycho-Analytic Situation , The Concept of Cumulative Trauma , Ego-Distortion, Cumulative Trauma and the Role of Reconstruction in the Analytic Situation , Role of Phobic and Counterphobic Mechanisms and Separation Anxiety in Schizoid Character Formation , On Symbiotic Omnipotence , Towards an Epistemology of the Process of Cure , Montaigne, Rousseau and Freud , The Becoming of a Psycho-Analyst , On Freud’s Provision of the Therapeutic Frame , Clinical Papers , Regression and Integration in the Analytic Setting , Silence as Communication , Ego-Ideal, Excitement and the Threat of Annihilation , Vicissitudes of Being, Knowing and Experiencing in the Therapeutic Situation , Infantile Neurosis as a False-Self Organization , ‘To Hear with Eyes’ Clinical Notes on Body as Subject and Object , The Role of Illusion in the Analytic Space and Process , Dread of Surrender to Resourceless Dependence in the Analytic Situation , Exorcism of the Intrusive Ego-alien Factors in the Analytic Situation and Process , The Finding and Becoming of Self , The Use and Abuse of Dream in Psychic Experience

About the Author :
Mohammed Masud Raza Khan (1924 - 1989) was an Pakistani British psychoanalyst. His training analyst was Donald Winnicott. Masud Raza Khan was a protege of Sigmund Freud's daughter Anna and a long-time collaborator with the most famous child analyst of the 20th century, D.W. Winnicott. Alongside clinical practice and teaching, he authored over 60 published papers, as well as numerous reviews, and edited significant portions of Winnicott's literary output and that of other key luminaries within the psychoanalytical canon. His key works include 'The Privacy of the Self', 'Alienation in Perversions', 'Hidden Selves', 'The Long Wait' and 'When Spring Comes'.

Review :
'Masud Khan, a psychoanalyst who is renowned for both vivacity and learning.demonstrates his own ability to reach (those characters whom psychiatrists label "schizoid") and provides a theoretical framework which will be of value to others engaged on the same quest.'- Anthony Storr - Times Literary Supplement'Khan's erudition is of a very special kind.He puts his finger on the pulse of the dilemma, crisis or illness of our time, our wish and need to preserve our unique individual selves and our no less urgent wish and need for living in a community with others.'- Paula Heimann - International Journal of Psycho-Analysis