False Self

Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award and the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship.

False Self: The Life of Masud Khan is the definitive biography of one of the most engaging and controversial figures of British psychoanalysis. To tell his story, Linda Hopkins makes use of Khan’s unpublished Work Books. She conducted countless rich interviews with Khan’s peers, relatives, and analysands to provide a balanced account of a talented and deeply conflicted individual.