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Objects of Our Desire
Exploring Our Intimate Connections with the Things Around Us
by Salman Akhtar
List Price: 19.95


Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Harmony (August 02 2005)


Read an Excerpt

Chapter 1: Acquiring and Using Things
Look around. What do you see? Lamps, tables, chairs, flower vases, paintings, pillows, newspapers, magazines, books? Or, if you happen to be in your kitchen, perhaps your eyes move from the refrigerator to the stove and from the microwave


About the Author

Salman Akhtar, M.D.Salman Akhtar, M.D.

Salman Akhtar is a professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theater Company in Philadelphia. He lectures widely and is the recipient of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Best Paper of the Year Award. Akhtar has written many books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis, including Immigration and Identity, the inspiration for the play Parinday (Birds), recently broadcast on the BBC.

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