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Blind Trust - By Vamik Volkan

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“This book is a culmination of over three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing socio-political conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct experience with such issues of any in the psychoanalytic world. From his roots in the dynamic unconscious, the author applies his knowledge of depth psychology to the turbulent and destructive human experiences in the current cauldrons of the greatest unrest and disaster throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Drawing on his childhood as a Turk living in Cyprus during recurrent struggles with Cypriot Greeks, and currently from his unique position for many years heading up psychopolitical studies at the University of Virginia in the heart of Jeffersonian America, Volkan writes of activities of astonishing import, as he served as envoy, negotiator and consultant, on Commissions from the United Nations to the American Psychiatric, in trouble spots from Israel to Egypt, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Kuwait, both halves of post-War Berlin and the Soviet Union. Utilizing his psychoanalytic knowledge to illuminate the etiologic bases of war, revolution, massacres and terror, as these have disturbed the world from ancient times to modern civilization, his voice speaks for the imperative of reason, the application of modern analytic knowledge for conflict resolution at the highest levels.

Volkan’s subjects are large groups and their leaders. Windows into the lives of the prophet Muhammad, or Stalin, Milosevic, and Osama Bin Laden, or David Koresh, are interspersed with examinations of religion and fundamentalism, separately, each from both sides, and a sober study, including the Moslem view, of suicide attackers. Volkan’s detailed and scholarly description of regressive movements in large group identities, complemented by an equal attention to progressive and creative reparative forces, is perhaps the most significant expansion of psychoanalytic group psychology since Freud’s original breakthrough.”

-Leo Rangell; Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association

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