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IDI Founder Vamik Volkan Interviewed in Belgrade

- By David Fromm

IDI Founder and President Emeritus Vamik Volkan recently spoke with the Serbian magazine VREME for an interview entitled War is a Battle Between Neighbors.”    

Deniz Ülke Arıboğan: “The Wall”

- By David Fromm

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

Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis

- By David Fromm

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

Dr. Regine Scholz: Comment on “Being the Other”

- By David Fromm

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 — New Work by Andreas Hamburger

- By David Fromm

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