Dr. Coline Covington’s forthcoming book, For Goodness Sake: Bravery, Patriotism and Identity, will be published in 2020 by Phoenix Publishers. The excerpt below, illustrating a particular patient’s struggle with issues of large-group identity and repression, is reprinted with the author’s permission. Rupture and Restoration Sophie had retired from being a secondary school teacher and in the … Read More
The Sixteenth Meeting of the International Dialogue Initiative took place from 19-21 October in Vienna, Austria. Prior to the Sixteenth Meeting, IDI members held the IDI’s first formal two-day Training Workshop, attended by 14 participants from around the world. Here’s what one Workshop participant had to say: “The IDI Workshop was incredibly valuable from … Read More
This blog post is based on a recent article by IDI Fellow, Alexander Obolonsky (Obolonsky, A. V. (2017). The Crisis of the Bureaucratic State and the Failed Attempts to Overcome it in the Russian Public Service. Croatian and Comparative Public Administration, 17(4), 569–591.) Excerpts are published here with the permission of the Journal’s editor. … Read More
IDI Founder and President Emeritus Vamik Volkan recently spoke with the Serbian magazine VREME for an interview entitled War is a Battle Between Neighbors.”
The Trialogue Conference, 2015 and 2017: A Psycho-Historical Focus for Group Analytic Work Stephan Alder, M.D. Trialogue is a conference in which Germans, Russians and Ukrainians meet and explore relationships and relatedness between all three groups, as those are shaped by past and present experiences. The aim is to reduce prejudices and increase … Read More