False Self

False Self is the definitive biography of one of the most engaging and controversial figures of British psychoanalysis: M. Masud R. Khan. This talented and deeply conflicted individual is brought to life by Linda Hopkins. Her meticulous research included the use of Khan’s personal Work Books and countless interviews.

Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as a brilliant clinician, M. Masud R. Khan (1924-1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behaviour the bigotry of his proponents-turned-detractors. The son of a wealthy landowner in rural India (now Pakistan), Khan grew up in a world of privilege radically different from the Western lifestyle he would adopt after moving to London, where we was closely connected to some of the most creative and accomplished people of his time, including Donald Woods Winnicott, Anna Freud, Robert Stoller, Richard Redgrave, Julie Andrews, Rudolph Nureyev, and many more. Khan’s subsequent downfall reveals not only his psychic fragility but also the world of intrigues and deceptions in the psychoanalytic community of the time. In telling the story of this provocative man, Linda Hopkins makes use of unprecedented access to Khan’s peers, relatives, and analysands in order to provide an in-depth and balanced account of Masud Khan as a talented and deeply conflicted man.

Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction

Part 1. Colonial India (1924-1945) 1. Early Years in Montgomery 2. A Feudal Upbringing

Part 2. Early Years in London (1946-1959) 3. A Misunderstanding 4. First Years of Training and Personal Life in the West 5. Settling In and Starting Analysis with Winnicott 6. Early Clinical Work (Interviews)

Part 3. The Divine Years: Khan at His Peak (1960-1964) 7. Masud and Svetlana 8. Working in a Time of Revolution 9. Clinical Work (Interviews) 10. The Curative Friendships 11. Wladimir Granoff 12. The Stollers

Part 4. Contributions to Psychoanalysis 13. True Self 14. Regression to Dependence 15. Play Therapy for Adults 16. Perversions and Issues of Sexual Identity 17. Editorial Work and Promotion of Winnicott

Part 5. Starting to Fall (1965) 18. The False Self 19. Disgrace in Amsterdam

Part 6. Blessings and Humiliations 163 (1966-1970) 20. Losing His Anchors 21. Lying Fallow 22. The Dying of a Marriage 23. Clinical Work (Interviews) 24. Victor Smirnoff

Part 7. And Worse 1 May be Yet (1971-1976) 25. The Most Traumatic Year 26. The Absence of Winnicott 27. Bad Dreams 28. The Alcoholic Solution 29. Clinical Work (Interviews) 30. Moving On 31. Fortune, Good Night

Part 8. Nine Lives of a Cat (1977-1980) 32. Survival 33. Analysis with Robert Stoller 34. Murder, Frenzy and Madness: Reading Dostoevsky 35. Fortune Smiles: Last Love 36. Late Clinical Work (Interviews)

Part 9. Majesty and Incapacity (1981-1989) 37. The Shadow of a Man 38. Death of a Madman 39. Posthumous

Postscript: Meeting Svetlana Beriosova Endnotes Bibliography: The Works of M. Masud R. Khan References Index,

Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Introduction

Part 1. Colonial India (1924–1945)
1. Early Years in Montgomery
2. A Feudal Upbringing

Part 2. Early Years in London (1946–1959)
3. A Misunderstanding
4. First Years of Training and Personal Life in the West
5. Settling In and Starting Analysis with Winnicott
6. Early Clinical Work (Interviews)

Part 3. The Divine Years: Khan at His Peak (1960–1964)
7. Masud and Svetlana
8. Working in a Time of Revolution
9. Clinical Work (Interviews)
10. The Curative Friendships
11. Wladimir Granoff
12. The Stollers

Part 4. Contributions to Psychoanalysis
13. True Self
14. Regression to Dependence
15. Play Therapy for Adults
16. Perversions and Issues of Sexual Identity
17. Editorial Work and Promotion of Winnicott

Part 5. Starting to Fall (1965)
18. The False Self
19. Disgrace in Amsterdam

Part 6. Blessings and Humiliations 163 (1966–1970)
20. Losing His Anchors
21. Lying Fallow
22. The Dying of a Marriage
23. Clinical Work (Interviews)
24. Victor Smirnoff

Part 7. And Worse 1 May be Yet (1971–1976)
25. The Most Traumatic Year
26. The Absence of Winnicott
27. Bad Dreams
28. The Alcoholic Solution
29. Clinical Work (Interviews)
30. Moving On
31. Fortune, Good Night

Part 8. Nine Lives of a Cat (1977–1980)
32. Survival
33. Analysis with Robert Stoller
34. Murder, Frenzy and Madness: Reading Dostoevsky
35. Fortune Smiles: Last Love
36. Late Clinical Work (Interviews)

Part 9. Majesty and Incapacity (1981–1989)
37. The Shadow of a Man
38. Death of a Madman
39. Posthumous

Postscript: Meeting Svetlana Beriosova
Endnotes
Bibliography: The Works of M. Masud R. Khan
References
Index

• By (author) Linda Hopkins