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Dr. Akhtar’s talk is based on his book, Good Stuff, originally published in January of 2012. Good Stuff is divided into two parts. Part 1, Positive Attributes: Courage, Resilience and Gratitude. Part 2, Positive Actions: Generosity, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice. The six chapters constitute a harmonious gestalt of the relational scenarios that assure enrichment of human experience. This book offers sociological meditations to temper Freud’s view that human beings are essentially ‘bad’ and whatever goodness they can muster is largely defensive. By elucidating the origins, dynamics, social pleasures, and clinical benefits of courage, resilience, gratitude, generosity, forgiveness, and sacrifice, this book sheds light on a corner of human experience that has remained inadequately understood by psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals. (Excerpted from the book synopsis on Amazon) Dr. Akhtar is the 4th in a series of Sigourney Award winners brought to Springfield by Community Services Institute. Previous lectures were presented by Dr. Glen Gabbard, Dr. Vamik Volkan and Dr. Stuart Twemlow.