Vamık Volkan

Vamık D. Volkan, M.D. (born 1932) is an 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 both the International Society of Political Psychology and the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society.

He 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, Vamik 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).

Publications

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*(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 Ataturk: 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. Socarides. "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

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* [http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/csmhi/suicide-bomber-psychology.pdf Suicide Bombers] (CSMHI, University of Virginia School of Medicine)