The Wall by Deniz Ülke Arıboğan [IDI Member Prof. Deniz Ülke Arıboğan’s powerful new work “The Wall” is available here. Read a summary of this important contribution below.] The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was accepted as a milestone that changed all fundamental discourses and concepts, and saw the construction of new paradigms in … Read More
In February 2018, Routledge published the long-awaited Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis. Longtime IDI members Vamik Volkan and Lord John Alderdice have chapters in this essential scholarly work. From the publisher: The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding … Read More
Comments on Pari Namazie’s Report on the “Being the Other” Panel Regine Scholz, Ph.D. To be on the panel together with Vamik Volkan in Vienna to discuss Pari Namazie’s findings from her research about the Iranian migrant community in Europe (“Being the Other”) was an honor and a pleasure. Pari Namazie gave much food … Read More
Trauma, Trust and Memory: Social Trauma and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Cultural Memory is a new book edited by Andreas Hamburger, a psychoanalyst and friend of the IDI with whom we collaborated during our 2016 meeting in Berlin. Published in 2018 by Karnac (www.karnacbooks.com), it addresses one of the most important topics in the clinical, … Read More
A few thoughts on Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal Bijan Khajehpour, IDI member The 8 May announcement by US President Donald Trump that “the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal” has caused confusion on many levels and thrown EU-US relations into unchartered waters. Below I will look at some … Read More