Vamik D Volkan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1359424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vamik D Volkan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vamik D |
| FAMILY NAME | Volkan |
| SIGNATURE | VOLKAN V D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
We Don't Speak of Fear: Large-Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma
Interdisciplinary Handbook of Social Trauma
Large-Group Identity, Who Are We Now? Leader–follower Relationships and Societal–political Divisions
Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology
Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element. In our fast-changing world, globalisation, advances in communication technology, fast travel, terrorism and now the refugee crisis make psychoanalytic investigation of the Other a major necessity. Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experie…
Seed of Madness: Constitution, Environment, and Fantasy in the Organization of the Psychotic Core
In These Pages… The Intertwining of External and Internal Events in the Changing World
Would-Be Wife Killer: A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualised Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps
Psychoanalysis, International Relations, and Diplomacy: A Sourcebook on Large-Group Psychology
Large-group identity, international relations and psychoanalysis
This paper examines the psychology of ethnic, national, religious or political ideological groups composed of thousands or millions of people. In such large groups most of the individuals will never meet during their lifetimes. But, they share a persistent sense of sameness, “large-group identity.” This paper examines how this abstract concept, large-group identity, can become the central force that influences international relationships. Psychoa…
Regional and ethnic conflicts: Perspectives from the front lines
Chapter 1: Ethnopolitical Conflict in Perspective Judy Carter, George Irani, and Vamik D. Volkan Chapter 2: Macedonia The Conflict in Macedonia from the Macedonians' Perspective: Being Victims in Their Own Country Relationships between Macedonians and Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia Fatmir Musa Chapter 3: Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir: An Indian View Dipankar Banerjee Kashmir Dispute Chapter 4: Cyprus The Cyprus Conflict: National Mythologies …
Large-group psychodynamics and massive violence
Beginning with Freud, psychoanalytic theories concerning large groups have mainly focused on individuals' perceptions of what their large groups psychologically mean to them. This chapter examines some aspects of large-group psychology in its own right and studies psychodynamics of ethnic, national, religious or ideological groups, the membership of which originates in childhood. I will compare the mourning process in individuals with the mournin…
Psicodinâmica da violência de grandes grupos e da violência de massas
A partir de Freud, as teorias psicanalistas sobre grandes grupos focalizam, principalmente, as percepções e os significados que, psicologicamente, os indivíduos atribuem a eles. Este texto analisa alguns aspectos sobre a psicologia dos grandes grupos e sua psicodinâmica interna e específica. Toma como referência grupos étnicos, nacionais, religiosos e ideológicos cujo pertencimento dos sujeitos iniciou-se na infância. O autor faz uma comparação e…
The Re-Libidinalization of the Internal World of a Refugee Family
This article describes the effects that forced migration has on refugees’ identities and explores their difficulty in mourning. To illustrate the aftermath of forced migration, I will describe the internal world of a refugee family driven from their homes after massive ethnic violence. It took nine years from the time of their dislocation for them to be able to ‘re-libidinalize’ their self-representations. The re-libidinalization process allowed …
Transgenerational Transmissions and Chosen Traumas: An Aspect of Large-Group Identity
Large-group (ethnic, national, religious) identity is defined as the subjective experience of thousands or millions of people who are linked by a persistent sense of sameness while also sharing numerous characteristics with others in foreign groups. The main task that members of a large group share is to maintain, protect, and repair their group identity. A `chosen trauma' is one component of this identity. The term `chosen trauma' refers to the …
Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography
Journal Article Richard Nixon: A Psycho biography. By Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, and Andrew W. Dod. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 190 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-231-10854-0.) Get access Dean J. Kotlowski Dean J. Kotlowski Ohio University Athens, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 841–842, https://doi.org/10.2307/256…
Ethnicity and Nationalism: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Bien que l'ethnicité ne soit pas visible, son existence est palpable et I'on pourrait penser qu'il s'agit de quelque chose d'assez facile à décrire. Les Arabes et les Israéliens ou bien les Arméniens et les Azerbaïdjanais, par exemple, insistent si résolument sur leur hétérogénéité qu'il ne devrait pas être difficile d'en isoler les raisons. II est pourtant impossible de trouver une description unique de l'ethnicité qui serait acceptée par la plu…
Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism
In Bloodlines, Vamik Volkan, a world-renowned psychiatrist specializing in international relations, explores ethnic violence by examining history and diplomacy through a psychoanalytic lens. Dr. Volkan leads the reader on investigative tours of battlegrounds in the Middle East, Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, the Baltics, and the Balkans. In Serbia, he discovers that the Battle of Kosovo, fought in 1389, is the rallying cry for modern nationalists, who v…
The need to have enemies and allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships
Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory, Phychopathology, and helath
Dr. Volkan's Response
Psychological Concepts Useful in the Building of Political Foundations between Nations: Track II Diplomacy
There are two phases in the process of negotiating for peace with antagonistic national groups. The leader (or leaders) of one such group will not negotiate with his opposite number until political foundations to support such negotiation are laid down, and obstacles to peace identified and dealt with; at least some measure of success is anticipated by both sides. Accordingly, the first phase requires the building of bridges between those represen…
The Immortal Ataturk: A Psychobiography
The narcissism of minor differences in the psychological gap between opposing nations
1986). The narcissism of minor differences in the psychological gap between opposing nations. Psychoanalytic Inquiry: Vol. 6, Aggression and Its Alternatives in the Conduct of International Relations, pp. 175-191
The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: A Developmental Approach
need to identify some people as allies and others as enemies. This need evolves from the individual's efforts to protect his sense of self, which is intertwined with his experiences of ethnicity, nationality, and other identifying circumstances. When threatened by political or military conflict, man clings ever more stubbornly to these circumstances in an effort to maintain and regulate his sense of self. Members of any given group revert to chil…
Primitive internalized object relations: A Clinical Study of Schizophrenic, Borderline, and Narcissistic Patients
Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism
In Bloodlines, Vamik Volkan, a world-renowned psychiatrist specializing in international relations, explores ethnic violence by examining history and diplomacy through a psychoanalytic lens. Dr. Volkan leads the reader on investigative tours of battlegrounds in the Middle East, Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, the Baltics, and the Balkans. In Serbia, he discovers that the Battle of Kosovo, fought in 1389, is the rallying cry for modern nationalists, who v…
The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: A Developmental Approach
need to identify some people as allies and others as enemies. This need evolves from the individual's efforts to protect his sense of self, which is intertwined with his experiences of ethnicity, nationality, and other identifying circumstances. When threatened by political or military conflict, man clings ever more stubbornly to these circumstances in an effort to maintain and regulate his sense of self. Members of any given group revert to chil…
The need to have enemies and allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships
The Immortal Ataturk: A Psychobiography
Psychological Concepts Useful in the Building of Political Foundations between Nations: Track II Diplomacy
There are two phases in the process of negotiating for peace with antagonistic national groups. The leader (or leaders) of one such group will not negotiate with his opposite number until political foundations to support such negotiation are laid down, and obstacles to peace identified and dealt with; at least some measure of success is anticipated by both sides. Accordingly, the first phase requires the building of bridges between those represen…
The narcissism of minor differences in the psychological gap between opposing nations
1986). The narcissism of minor differences in the psychological gap between opposing nations. Psychoanalytic Inquiry: Vol. 6, Aggression and Its Alternatives in the Conduct of International Relations, pp. 175-191
Transitional Fantasiesin the Analysis of a Narcissistic Personality
Ethnicity and Nationalism: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Bien que l'ethnicité ne soit pas visible, son existence est palpable et I'on pourrait penser qu'il s'agit de quelque chose d'assez facile à décrire. Les Arabes et les Israéliens ou bien les Arméniens et les Azerbaïdjanais, par exemple, insistent si résolument sur leur hétérogénéité qu'il ne devrait pas être difficile d'en isoler les raisons. II est pourtant impossible de trouver une description unique de l'ethnicité qui serait acceptée par la plu…
Aspects of the object relationships and developing skills of a ‘mechanical boy’
The Birds of Cyprus
Transitional Fantasiesin the Analysis of a Narcissistic Personality
Primitive internalized object relations: A Clinical Study of Schizophrenic, Borderline, and Narcissistic Patients
The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: A Developmental Approach
need to identify some people as allies and others as enemies. This need evolves from the individual's efforts to protect his sense of self, which is intertwined with his experiences of ethnicity, nationality, and other identifying circumstances. When threatened by political or military conflict, man clings ever more stubbornly to these circumstances in an effort to maintain and regulate his sense of self. Members of any given group revert to chil…
The narcissism of minor differences in the psychological gap between opposing nations
1986). The narcissism of minor differences in the psychological gap between opposing nations. Psychoanalytic Inquiry: Vol. 6, Aggression and Its Alternatives in the Conduct of International Relations, pp. 175-191
Psychological Concepts Useful in the Building of Political Foundations between Nations: Track II Diplomacy
There are two phases in the process of negotiating for peace with antagonistic national groups. The leader (or leaders) of one such group will not negotiate with his opposite number until political foundations to support such negotiation are laid down, and obstacles to peace identified and dealt with; at least some measure of success is anticipated by both sides. Accordingly, the first phase requires the building of bridges between those represen…
The Immortal Ataturk: A Psychobiography
Dr. Volkan's Response
The need to have enemies and allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships
Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory, Phychopathology, and helath
Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism
In Bloodlines, Vamik Volkan, a world-renowned psychiatrist specializing in international relations, explores ethnic violence by examining history and diplomacy through a psychoanalytic lens. Dr. Volkan leads the reader on investigative tours of battlegrounds in the Middle East, Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, the Baltics, and the Balkans. In Serbia, he discovers that the Battle of Kosovo, fought in 1389, is the rallying cry for modern nationalists, who v…
Ethnicity and Nationalism: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Bien que l'ethnicité ne soit pas visible, son existence est palpable et I'on pourrait penser qu'il s'agit de quelque chose d'assez facile à décrire. Les Arabes et les Israéliens ou bien les Arméniens et les Azerbaïdjanais, par exemple, insistent si résolument sur leur hétérogénéité qu'il ne devrait pas être difficile d'en isoler les raisons. II est pourtant impossible de trouver une description unique de l'ethnicité qui serait acceptée par la plu…
Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography
Journal Article Richard Nixon: A Psycho biography. By Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, and Andrew W. Dod. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 190 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-231-10854-0.) Get access Dean J. Kotlowski Dean J. Kotlowski Ohio University Athens, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 841–842, https://doi.org/10.2307/256…
Transgenerational Transmissions and Chosen Traumas: An Aspect of Large-Group Identity
Large-group (ethnic, national, religious) identity is defined as the subjective experience of thousands or millions of people who are linked by a persistent sense of sameness while also sharing numerous characteristics with others in foreign groups. The main task that members of a large group share is to maintain, protect, and repair their group identity. A `chosen trauma' is one component of this identity. The term `chosen trauma' refers to the …
The Re-Libidinalization of the Internal World of a Refugee Family
This article describes the effects that forced migration has on refugees’ identities and explores their difficulty in mourning. To illustrate the aftermath of forced migration, I will describe the internal world of a refugee family driven from their homes after massive ethnic violence. It took nine years from the time of their dislocation for them to be able to ‘re-libidinalize’ their self-representations. The re-libidinalization process allowed …
Large-group psychodynamics and massive violence
Beginning with Freud, psychoanalytic theories concerning large groups have mainly focused on individuals' perceptions of what their large groups psychologically mean to them. This chapter examines some aspects of large-group psychology in its own right and studies psychodynamics of ethnic, national, religious or ideological groups, the membership of which originates in childhood. I will compare the mourning process in individuals with the mournin…
Psicodinâmica da violência de grandes grupos e da violência de massas
A partir de Freud, as teorias psicanalistas sobre grandes grupos focalizam, principalmente, as percepções e os significados que, psicologicamente, os indivíduos atribuem a eles. Este texto analisa alguns aspectos sobre a psicologia dos grandes grupos e sua psicodinâmica interna e específica. Toma como referência grupos étnicos, nacionais, religiosos e ideológicos cujo pertencimento dos sujeitos iniciou-se na infância. O autor faz uma comparação e…
Large-group identity, international relations and psychoanalysis
This paper examines the psychology of ethnic, national, religious or political ideological groups composed of thousands or millions of people. In such large groups most of the individuals will never meet during their lifetimes. But, they share a persistent sense of sameness, “large-group identity.” This paper examines how this abstract concept, large-group identity, can become the central force that influences international relationships. Psychoa…
Regional and ethnic conflicts: Perspectives from the front lines
Chapter 1: Ethnopolitical Conflict in Perspective Judy Carter, George Irani, and Vamik D. Volkan Chapter 2: Macedonia The Conflict in Macedonia from the Macedonians' Perspective: Being Victims in Their Own Country Relationships between Macedonians and Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia Fatmir Musa Chapter 3: Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir: An Indian View Dipankar Banerjee Kashmir Dispute Chapter 4: Cyprus The Cyprus Conflict: National Mythologies …
Psychoanalysis, International Relations, and Diplomacy: A Sourcebook on Large-Group Psychology
In These Pages… The Intertwining of External and Internal Events in the Changing World
Would-Be Wife Killer: A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualised Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps
Seed of Madness: Constitution, Environment, and Fantasy in the Organization of the Psychotic Core
Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology
Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element. In our fast-changing world, globalisation, advances in communication technology, fast travel, terrorism and now the refugee crisis make psychoanalytic investigation of the Other a major necessity. Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experie…
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