This book concerns itself with the third element of the psychological impact of massive human trauma: transgenerational transmission of psychological tasks.
The author provides clinical illustrations of primitive transference and... Læs mere
Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experiences as an immigrant to bear on this study of the psychology of immigrants and refugees, and of those who cross paths with them.
In this comprehensive guide to the mourning process, Dr Volkan, a world-recognised authority on grief, shows how each mourning is as individualised as our... Læs mere
This book relates the psychoanalytic journey of a man in his thirties, a grandson of a high-level SS officer, whose case illustrates how individuals can sometimes suffer greatly or cause the suffering of other innocent persons, simply because they are descendants of perpetrators.
The author has three goals in writing this book. The first is to explore large-group identity such as ethnic... Læs mere
This book most clearly illustrates how the transgenerational transmission of trauma takes place and how the impact of war... Læs mere