An Interview with M. Masud R. Khan.

In an interview created in 1981–1982, M. Masud R. Khan told of his background as a Muslim from a wealthy landed family in British India. He narrated how he came to London in his early twenties. He met with John Bowlby to inquire about receiving a psychoanalysis. Bowlby mistakenly thought he wanted to become a psychoanalyst. Intrigued by the idea, Khan ended up applying for training as a psychoanalyst and was accepted to and then completed the training course. The interview includes his anecdotes about Melanie Klein, Donald W. Winnicott, and Anna Freud. In his supervision with Klein, she provided some 'marvelous interpretations', he noted, but, in his view, she undervalued the analysands' personal experiences. Not only did he have an analysis with Winnicott, but he assisted Winnicott in the elder analyst's writing. Despite their long association, Khan claimed that he and Winnicott respected but disliked each other. Anna Freud generously helped Khan when he was ill. She also told him that her father, Sigmund Freud, largely gave up on friendships with men after his breaks with Carl Jung and Otto Rank and the death of Karl Abraham. Khan described his work-in-progress on Virginia Woolf. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]