Vamik Volkan, MD, DLFAPA
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
University of Virginia
Vamik Volkan, M. D. (with Prof. Jana Javakhishvili from The Republic of Georgia) published “Invasion of Ukraine: Observations on leader-followers relationships” in the June 2022 issue of American Journal of Psychoanalysis.
During the recent months Vamik Volkan gave the following lectures (on-line) to international audiences:
- March 9, 2022: “Narcissistic Personality Organization”—Izmir Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society, Izmir, Turkey.
- March 10, 2022: “Refugees, Large Group Identity and Mourning” — Kalina, Bulgaria.
- May 11, 2022: “Transgenerational Transmission of Traumas” — Cyprus International University, Nicosia, North Cyprus.
- May 14, 2022: “Political Propaganda” — Forgiving or Forgetting: Dealing with a Painful Historical Past, The Twelfth International Sakharov Conference, Kaunas, Lithuania.
- June 4, 2022: “Meet the Analyst” — an Ipso Meet the Analyst online event. International.
Upcoming international lectures:
- August 26, 2022: “Vlademir Putin and the Ukraine Invasion” — The AFF (Committee for Training and Research) from the Psychoanalytic Institute (IfP) in Berlin, Germany.
- October 21, 2022: “Large Group Identity” — International Dialogue Initiative meeting, Oxford, Great Britain.
- October 28, 2022: “External Traumas (Covid Pandemic) and Individual Psychology” — The Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis, Bucharest, Romania.
- November 3, 2022: “The Need for Enemies and the Need for Friends” — Houston Psychoanalytic Society, Houston, USA.
- November 5, 2022: “The Face of Ethnic Conflict: Revenge or Reconciliation in the Aftermath of War” — 23rd Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis. Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, Toronto, Canada.
- November 18, 2022: “Schizophrenia” — Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, USA.
