Vamik D Volkan
Author
Language
English
Description
With insight into the psychodynamics of mourning, Volkan and Zintl focus first on the most concrete of losses, death, and establish it as part of a continuum of loss--resulting from divorce, or the loss of a dream, an ideal, a friendship, a homeland, even a former self.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
A psychoanalytic portrait of Richard Nixon, this text aims to provide an insight not only into Nixon's psyche, but also into the way it influenced his political decisions, whether shrewd or disastrous. The authors explore Nixon's difficult upbringing-his abusive father and emotionally-distant mother; the tragic deaths of two of his brothers; his rejection by the first women he hoped to marry; the pursuit of his eventual wife; and other apparently...
Author
Publisher
Pitchstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the relationship between group identity and major traumas delivered by enemies around the world, including those related to the attacks of 9/11. The author explores the collective mind of ethnic, religious, cultural and national group conflict.
Author
Publisher
Pitchstone Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The author explores the etiologic bases of war, revolution, massacres, and terror. His analysis focuses on the psychological motivations of large groups and their leaders, covering such diverse figures as Joseph Stalin, Osama bin Laden, and the Prophet Muhammad.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
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 view...