Vamık D Volkan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vamık D Volkan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vamık D |
| FAMILY NAME | Volkan |
| SIGNATURE | VOLKAN V D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
We Don't Speak of Fear: Large-Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma
Remembering Jimmy Carter and his Contribution to the Role of Psychoanalysis in World Affairs
Invasion of Ukraine: Observations on Leader-Followers Relationships
Remembering Gorbachev
A look at Albert Einstein’s question “why war?” with a focus on large-group psychology
There are observable realistic factors - economic, legal and political - that contribute to initiating and maintaining international conflicts, including starting wars. Behind such factors there are also various psychological elements. This paper recalls correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud and Freud's pessimistic response to the question "Why War?" and explores this question from the point of view of large-group psychology. T…
Sixteen analysands' and large groups' reactions to the Covid‐19 pandemic
The first part of this paper describes 16 analysands' reactions to the COVID‐19 pandemic, from early March 2020 until mid‐January 2021 when this paper was written, when different vaccines for the virus have become available and when the new COVID‐19 variant showed its face. The data come from the author's supervision via telephone of 10 younger psychoanalysts who were treating one or two of these cases. Most of the analysts and their analysands a…
Trauma, Prejudice, Large-Group Identity and Psychoanalysis
Large-group psychology and political conflicts: An introduction to the psychosocial work of Vamik Volkan
Professor Volkan responds to questions about the emergence and development of his work as a psychoanalytic consultant and mediator in inter- and intra-national conflict situations. He outlines the circumstances of its beginnings at the University of Virginia and its subsequent growth including the development of interventions based on the ‘Tree Model’. He emphasises the centrality to this informal diplomatic work of the concept of large-group ide…
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…
Refugees as the Other: Large-group identity, terrorism and border psychology
On 27 August, 2015 two vessels with 550 migrants on board sank off the Libyan coast, and more than 400 persons were estimated to have drowned. Some credit this event as having coined the phrase ‘European refugee crisis’ that is still used to describe the present refugee situation in Europe. On 13 November 2015 a series of coordinated terrorist attacks took place in Paris and a northern suburb of the city. When a Syrian passport that belonged to a…
International societal movements, the other, psychological borders, and large-scale voter behavior during the 2016 United States presidential election
In These Pages… The Intertwining of External and Internal Events in the Changing World
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 identity: Us and them’ polarizations in the international arena
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…
Panel reports: Psychoanalytic treatments of schizophrenic patients
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 …
September 11 and Societal Regression
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…
Blood Lines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism
Deadly Distinctions: The Rise of Ethnic Violence * Ethnic Tents: Descriptions of Large-Group Identities * Anwar el-Sadat Goes to Jerusalem: The Psychology of International Conflicts Observed at Close Range * Chosen Trauma: Unresolved Mourning * Ancient Fuel for a Modern Inferno: Time Collapse in Bosnia-Herzegovina * We-ness: Identifications and Shared Reservoirs * Enemy Images: Minor Differences and Dehumanization * Two Rocks in the Aegean Sea: T…
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 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
Large-group identity: Us and them’ polarizations in the international arena
Panel reports: Psychoanalytic treatments of schizophrenic patients
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…
Sleep (a Bibliographical Study)
The observation and topographic study of the changing ego states of a schizophrenic patient
The observation of the ‘little man’ phenomenon in a case of anorexia nervosa
Some considerations of satellite states and satellite dreams
The introjection of and identification with the therapist as an ego‐building aspect in the treatment of schizophrenia
Aspects of the object relationships and developing skills of a ‘mechanical boy’
The Birds of Cyprus
Transitional Fantasiesin the Analysis of a Narcissistic Personality
Mothers and Others
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
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…
Blood Lines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism
Deadly Distinctions: The Rise of Ethnic Violence * Ethnic Tents: Descriptions of Large-Group Identities * Anwar el-Sadat Goes to Jerusalem: The Psychology of International Conflicts Observed at Close Range * Chosen Trauma: Unresolved Mourning * Ancient Fuel for a Modern Inferno: Time Collapse in Bosnia-Herzegovina * We-ness: Identifications and Shared Reservoirs * Enemy Images: Minor Differences and Dehumanization * Two Rocks in the Aegean Sea: T…
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 …
September 11 and Societal Regression
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 …
Panel reports: Psychoanalytic treatments of schizophrenic patients
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…
Psychology (32 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Psychoanalysis (16 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Ethnic group (7 works)