Vamik Volkan
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Vamık D. Volkan, M.D. is a Turkish-Cypriot
emeritus professor of psychiatry
at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
. He is also the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center
in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
, an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and a past president of the International Society of Political Psychology
, the American College of Psychoanalysts, and the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society.
For nearly three decades, Dr. Volkan has led interdisciplinary teams to various trouble spots around the world and has brought high-level "enemy" representatives together for years-long unofficial dialogues. His work in the field has resulted in his developing new theories about large-group behavior in times of peace and war. He has authored or coauthored more than thirty books and has edited or coedited ten more.
In 1987, Vamık Volkan founded and until 2002 directed Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
His most recent book is Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts (2006).
Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriots are the ethnic Turks and members of the Turkish-speaking ethnolinguistic community of the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The term is used to refer explicitly to the indigenous Turkish Cypriots, whose Ottoman Turkish forbears colonised the island in 1571...
emeritus professor of psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is a medical school located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. The tenth medical school to open in the United States, it has been part of the University of Virginia since the University's establishment in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson...
. He is also the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center
Austen Riggs Center
The Austen Riggs Center is a psychiatric treatment facility founded in 1913 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.-Founding – 1946:A New York City internist who repaired to the bucolic countryside of Stockbridge while suffering from tuberculosis, Austen Fox Riggs developed an innovative treatment regimen...
in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,947 at the 2010 census...
, an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and a past president of the International Society of Political Psychology
International Society of Political Psychology
The International Society of Political Psychology is an interdisciplinary not-for-profit organisation, representing all fields of enquiry involved with the exploration of relationships between both psychological and political processes and phenomena...
, the American College of Psychoanalysts, and the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society.
Biography
Vamık Volkan was born in 1932 in Nicosia, Cyprus.For nearly three decades, Dr. Volkan has led interdisciplinary teams to various trouble spots around the world and has brought high-level "enemy" representatives together for years-long unofficial dialogues. His work in the field has resulted in his developing new theories about large-group behavior in times of peace and war. He has authored or coauthored more than thirty books and has edited or coedited ten more.
In 1987, Vamık Volkan founded and until 2002 directed Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
His most recent book is Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts (2006).
Books
- (1976). Primitive Internalized Object Relations: A Clinical Study of Schizophrenic, Borderline, and Narcissistic Patients
- (1979). Cyprus: War and Adaptation: A Psychoanalytic History of Two Ethnic Groups in Conflict
- (1981). Linking Objects and Linking Phenomena
- (1982). Primitive Internalized Object Relations: A Clinical Study of Schizophrenic, Borderline, and Narcissistic Patients
- (1984). What Do You Get When You Cross a Dandelion with a Rose?
- (1985). Depressive States and Their Treatment
- (1986). Vamik Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz. The Immortal Atatürk: A Psychobiography
- (1988). The Need to Have Enemies & Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships
- (1990). Vamik D. Volkan, Demetrios A. Julius, and Joseph V. Montville. The Psychodynamics of International Relationships: Concepts and Theories (Psychodynamics of International Relationships)
- (1990). Vamik D. Volkan and Charles W. SocaridesCharles SocaridesCharles W. Socarides was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, physician, educator, and author. Socarides was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. Socarides focused much of his career on the study of homosexuality, which he believed can be altered...
. The Homosexualities: Reality, Fantasy, and the Arts - (1991). Vamik D. Volkan, Demetrios A. Julius, and Joseph V. Montville The Psychodynamics of International Relationships: Unofficial Diplomacy at Work
- (1992). Charles W. Socarides and Vamik D. Volkan. The Homosexualities and the Therapeutic Process
- (1993). Vamik D. Volkan and Elizabeth Zintl. Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief
- (1995). Six Steps in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Organization
- (1995). The Infantile Psychotic Self: Understanding and Treating Schizophrenics and Other Difficult Patients. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
- (1996) Vamik D. Volkan and Salman Akhtar. The Seed of Madness: Constitution, Environment, and Fantasy in the Organization of the Psychotic Core
- (1997) Siblings in the Unconscious and Psychopathology: Womb Fantasies, Claustrophobias, Fear of Pregnancy, Murderous Rage, Animal Symbolism
- (1997). Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
- (1999) Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, Andrew W. Dod. Richard Nixon
- (2002). Volkan, V. D., Ast, Gabriele, and Greer, William. The Third Reich in the Unconscious: Transgenerational Transmission and its Consequences. New York: Bruenner-Routledge.
- (2004). Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror
- (2004) Salman Akhtar and Vamik D. Volkan Mental Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and Its Pathology
- (2006). Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts. Pitchstone Publishing. ISBN 0972887571
Articles
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