PSV member Vamık Volkan, MD, an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia and Kevin Volkan, PhD, professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands have published a new book: Human Aggression, War and Genocide.
This book explores sociopolitical phenomenon through the lens of psychoanalysis and neuroscience. It offers psychological analysis and insight into historical and contemporary conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.
Vamik D. Volkan, MD, DLFAPA, is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Virginia, Past President of Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, Turkish-American Neuropsychiatric Society, International Society of Political Psychology and American College of Psychoanalysts.
