2025 - 2026 Scientific Meetings
| Program Title: | THE RADICAL OTHERNESS OF MASUD KHAN |
| Date: | Saturday, October 4, 2025 |
| Time: | 10:30am – 12:00pm PT |
| Presenter: | Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) |
| Moderator: | Charles Fisher, MD San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) |
| Location: | San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis 444 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (remote option is available) |
| Program Fee: | Free |
| CME/CE: | This program has been approved for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for free (for SFCP members) or $22.50 (for non-SFCP members) |
Masud Khan was one of the most brilliant psychoanalysts of the Twentieth Century. He was Winnicott’s “principal disciple,” and analysand. He was also one of the most troubled, dying in madness, despair, and alone. How could such a talented and celebrated psychoanalyst fall so dramatically and publicly? In response to this question, his analysis with Donald Winnicott remains a focus of theorizing and controversy. This paper argues that it was Khan’s radical otherness, his identification as a “feudalist,” standing outside of a Western, democratic worldview, that served as a significant reason for the failure of his analysis. In defying the confines of his analytic community’s social unconscious, Khan’s descent allows us to question the ways in which we think about difference and otherness today.
Accreditation Statement for CME/CE Sponsorship and Disclosure Statement
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, the learners will be able to:
- evaluate the explanations provided for why Khan’s analysis with Winnicott was unsuccessful.
- describe the forms of Khan’s otherness that were so radical that they fell outside of the confines of his analyst’s social unconscious.
- explain how learning about a patient’s experience of analysis can challenge and enlarge our understanding of the clinical process.
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Psychologists attending SFCP events approved for CE credits may report AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward their CE requirements. Psychologists self-certify the number of hours they have completed on their renewal form (whether online or paper).
LCSWs/MFTs: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is a continuing education provider that has been approved by the American Psychological Association, a California Board of Behavioral Sciences recognized approval agency
Psychologists, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ on an hour for hour basis; see the program description for the maximum of credits awarded for each program.
Commercial Support: None