IDI Fellow Coline Covington, a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in London, has released a new book entitled Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality. From the publisher: Everyday Evils takes a psychoanalytic look at the evils committed by “ordinary” people in different contexts – from the Nazi concentration camps to Stockholm Syndrome … Read More
IDI founder and President Emeritus Vamik Volkan has authored an article in Turkey’s largest newspaper on growing fragmentation within Turkish society. Read his article here: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/psikanalist-prof-dr-vamik-d-volkan-1950lerde-arkadastik-komsuyduk-beraberdik-40222715
IDI Fellow Dr. Alexander Obolonsky releases his latest book, entitled “The Ethics of the Public Arena and Realities of Political Life.” Professor Obolonsky’s book is devoted to one of the most critical and painful problems of contemporary Russian society – dramatic distortions of political and public morality. He analyses basic theoretical and comparative points of political … Read More
IDI President Dr. M. Gerard Fromm will be one of the plenary speakers at the upcoming conference “Listening to Trauma: Insights and Actions” at George Washington University in Washington D.C. on October 20-22, 2016. Dr. Fromm’s presentation reports on the themes and process of a conference organized through the Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs … Read More
IDI President Emeritus Vamik Volkan will be the Keynote Speaker at an upcoming seminar on refugee and forced migration issues presented by the Therapeia Foundation in Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Volkan will present on the concepts of Large-Group Identity, Prejudice and the perception of the Immigrant as “Other”. Dr. Volkan will also present a Case Study.