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Vamik Volkan is truly un homme extraordinaire! He is a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, the author of more than fifty books and hundreds of articles and book chapters, a renowned and beloved teacher and supervisor, and, perhaps above all, a determined ambassador of peace in our strife-torn world. He has written about such clinical topics as primitive internalized object relations; the treatment of borderline, psychotic, and seriously depressed persons; the analysis of a man suffering from transgenerational transmission of war trauma; loss and grief; sibling relationships. He has written a textbook of psychoanalytic treatment. He is the co-author of psycho-biographies of Kemal Ataturk and of Richard Nixon. He has authored or co-authored numerous books on ethnic pride and killing in the name of ethnic identity; the use and misuse of religion; blind trust in seemingly strong but dangerous leaders at times of national anxiety and uncertainty; large group identity; and perennial group mourning. In 2002, he retired as Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
Martin A. Silverman is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Supervising Child Analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with NYU School of Medicine and a Training and Supervising Analyst and Supervising Child Analyst at the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey. He is also a former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine.
“Vamik’s Room,” A Documentary. Director and Producer, Molly Castelloe, 2016.
at the University of Virginia and as Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He currently is a Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Molly Castelloe has been immersed for some time in the arts and in the film world. She became so impressed with Vamik Volkan after she met him that she interviewed him at length and produced Vamik’s Room, a documentary film about his efforts at b