Dr. Vamık Volkan’s Books
Books on psychopolitical works and theories:
Volkan, Vamık D. (1979). Cyprus - War and Adaptation: A Psychoanalytic History of Two Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. (Revised edition: Istanbul/London: OA Press, 2009).
(In Turkish: Kıbrıs- Savaş ve Uyum: Çatışan Iki Etnik Grubun Psikoanalitik Tarihi, tr. Berna Kılınçer. Istanbul: Everest, 2008).
Volkan, Vamık D. and Itzkowitz, Norman (1984). The Immortal Atatürk: A Psychobiography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(In Turkish:.Ölümsüz Atatürk: Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınevi, 1998, 2005).
(In Greek: Atatoypk, tr. Kostas Zervos. Athens: Kostanidis, 2005).
Volkan, Vamık D. (1988). (As a member of the GAP Committee on International Relations). Us and Them: The Psychology of Ethnocentrism. New York: Brunner/Mazel.
Volkan, Vamık D. (1988). The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
Volkan, Vamık D., Montville, Joseph V. and Julius, Demetrios A. (Eds.) (1990). The Psychodynamics of International Relationships, Vol. I: Concepts and Theories. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Volkan, Vamık D., Julius, Demetrios A. and Montville, Joseph V. (Eds.) (1991). The Psychodynamics of International Relationships, Vol. II: Unofficial Diplomacy at Work. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Volkan, Vamık D. (1992). Politikal Psikoloji (Political Psychology). Tr. Abdülkadir Çevik and Birsen Ceyhun. Ankara: Hekimler Yayın Birliği. (Second Edition published by the University of Ankara Press, 1994). (original in Turkish)
Volkan, Vamık D. (1993). Etnik Terörismin Psikolojisi (Psychology of Ethnic Terrorism). Tr. Abdülkadir Çevik and Birsen Ceyhun. Ankara: Politik Psikoloji Yayınları.( original in Turkish)
Volkan, Vamık D. and Harris, Max (1993). (Monograph) Shaking the Tent: The Ppsychodynamics of Ethnic Terrorism. Prepared by the Committee on Terrorism at the University of Virginia’s Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction.
Thomson, J.A., Jr.; Harris, M. and Volkan, Vamık D. (1993). (Monograph) The Psychology of Western European Neo-Racism. by the Committee on Neo-Racism at the University of Virginia’s Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction.
Volkan, Vamık D. and Itzkowitz, Norman (1994). Turks and Greeks: Neighbors in Conflict. England: Eothen Press.
(In Turkish: Türkler ve Yunanlılar: Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınevi, 1996).
Volkan, Vamık D. (1997). Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
(In German: Bluts-Grenzen: Die historischen Wurzeln und die psychologischen Mechanismen ethnischer Konflikte und ihre Bedeutung bei Friedensverhandlungen, tr. Klaus Kochmann. Zurich: Scherz Verlag, 2000).
(In Japanese: Japanese translation of Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism. Tokyo: K. K. Kyod, 1998).
(In Turkish: Kanbağı; Istanbul;: Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınevi, 2000).
Volkan, Vamık D., Itzkowitz, Norman, and Dod, Andrew (1997). Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Volkan, Vamık D. (1999). Das Versagen der Diplomatie: Zur Psychoanalyse nationaler, ethnischer und religiöser Konflikte. (The Failure of Diplomacy: The Psychoanalysis of National, Ethnic and Religious Conflicts). Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. (original in German)
Volkan, Vamık D., Ast, Gabriele, and Greer, Jr., William F. (2001). Third Reich in the Unconscious Transgenerational Transmission and its Consequences. Brunner-Routledge.
Varvin, Sverre and Volkan, Vamık D. (Eds.) (2003). Violence or Dialogue: Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism. London: International Psychoanalytical Association.
(In Italian: Violenza o Dialogo? Insight psicoanalitico su terrore e terrorismo. Roma: Edizioni Borla s.r.l. (2003).In Spanish (2008). In Portuguese (2009).
Volkan, Vamık D. (2004). Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crises and Terror. Charlottesville, VA: Pitchstone Publishing.
(In German: Blindes Vertrauen: Grossgruppen und ihre Führer in Kriesezeiten. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag).
(In Turkish: Kőrü Kőrüne Ínanç. Istanbul: OkuyanUs, 2005)
Volkan, Vamık D. (2006). Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts. Charlottesville, VA: Pitchstone Publishing.
(In Turkish: Kimlik Adına Katillik., tr. Banu Büyükkal. Istanbul: Alfa Yayınevi).
Irani, George, Volkan, Vamık D., Carter, Judy (Eds.) (2008) Regional and Ethnic Conflicts: Perspectives from Front Lines. New York: Prentice-Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Volkan, Vamık D., Nuriye Atabey (2010.) Osmanlı'nın Yasından Atatürk'ün Türkiyesi'ne Onarıcı Liderlik ve Politik Psikoloji. (From losing the Ottoman Empire to Atatürk’ Turkey: Reparative Leadership and political Psychology).Ankara:Kripto Yayınları. (original in Turkish)
Volkan, Vamık D. and Norman Itzkowitz (2010) Atatürk/Anatürk: Mustafa Kemal’in Yaşamı, İç Dünyası, Yeni Türk Kimliğinin Yaratılışı ve Bugünkü Türkiye’deki Kimlik Sorunları (Father Turk/MotherTurk: The life of Mustafa Kemal, His Internal World, the Creation of the New Turkish Identity and Identity Questions in Today’s Turkey). Istanbul; Alfa Yayınları. (original in Turkish)
Books on clinical topics
Volkan, Vamık D. 1976. Primitive Internalized Object Relations: A Clinical Study of Schizophrenic, Borderline and Narcissistic Patients. Foreword by O. F. Kernberg. New York: International Universities Press.
(In German: Psychoanalyse der frühen Objektbeziehungen, tr. by Heiga Steinmetz-Schunemann. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1978).
Volkan, Vamık D. 1981. Linking Objects and Linking Phenomena: A Study of the Forms, Symptoms, Metapsychology and Therapy of Complicated Mourning. New York: International Universities Press.
Volkan, Vamık D. 1984. What Do You Get When You Cross a Dandelion With a Rose? The True Story of a Psychoanalysis. New York: Jason Aronson.
Volkan, Vamık D. (Ed.). 1985. Depressive States and Their Treatment. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson (paperback edition, 1994).
Volkan, Vamık D. 1987. Six Steps in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Organization. New York: Jason Aronson (paperback edition, 1990).
Volkan, Vamık D. and Terry C. Rodgers, eds. 1988. Attitudes of Entitlement - Theoretical and Clinical Issues. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia.
Socarides, Charles W., and Vamık D. Volkan, (Eds.). 1991. Homosexuality: Reality, Myth and the Arts. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Socarides, Charles W., and Vamık D. Volkan, (Eds.). 1991. The Homosexualities and the Therapeutic Process. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Volkan, Vamık D. and Gabriele Ast. 1992. Eine Borderline-Therapie: Strukturelle und Objektbeziehungskonflikte in der Psychoanalyse der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsorganisation (A Borderline Therapy: Structural and Object Relations Conflict in the Psychoanalysis of Borderline Personality Organization). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (original in German).
Volkan, Vamık D. 1992. Nesne İlişkileri Kuramı Çevresinde Gelişim ve Organizasyon (Development and Organization as Examined from an Object Relations Point of View). Tr.. by B. Ceyhun. Ankara: Başbakanlık Basımevi. (original in Turkish).
Volkan, Vamık D. 1992. Psikonaliz Yazıları (Essays on Psychoanalysis). Tr. by Abdülkadir Çevik and Birsen Ceyhun. Ankara: Hekimler Yayın Birliği. (original in Turkish).
Volkan, Vamık D. 1992. Politikal Psikoloji (Political Psychology). Tr.. by Abdülkadir Çevik and Birsen Ceyhun. Ankara: Hekimler Yayın Birliği. (2nd ed. published by the University of Ankara Press, 1994). (original in Turkish).
Volkan, Vamık D., and Elizabeth Zintl. 1993. Life After Loss: Lessons of Grief. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons (paperback edition, 1994).
(In German: Wege der Trauer: Leben mit Tod und Verlust, tr. by A. Potts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2000).
(In Russian: The Russian translation of Life After Loss, Moscow: Cogito- Centre)
Volkan, Vamık D. and Abdülkadir Çevik,. 1994. Depresyonun Psikodinamik Etiyolojisi. (Psychodynamic Etiology of Depression). Ankara: Türk Tabibler Birligi.
(in Turkish).
Volkan, Vamık D. and Gabriele Ast. 1994. Spektrum des Narzißmus. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (original in German).
(In Turkish: Özsevinin Dokusu (Spektrum des Narzissmus). Translated by Burcu Özbaran and Sebnem Pırıldar. Izmir, Turkey: Halime Odağ Psikoanaliz ve Psikoterapi Vakfı, 2007).
Volkan, Vamık D. 1996. Psikoanaliz Öyküleri (Psychoanalytic Case Studies). Trans. by Birsen Ceyhun Ankara: Bilimsel Tıp Yayınevi. (original in Turkish).
Volkan, Vamık D. 1995. The Infantile Psychotic Self: Understanding and Treating Schizophrenics and Other Difficult Patients. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
(In German: Das infantile psychotische Selbst und seine weitere Entwicklung, tr. by Ute Bolt. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).
Volkan, Vamık D., and Gabriele Ast. 1997. Siblings in the Unconscious and Psychopathology. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
(In Turkish: Bilinçdışında Kardeşler ve Psikopatoloji. (Siblings in the Unconscious). Trans. by A. Gül Ceyhun and Birsen Ceyhun. Ankara: Novartis, 1998).
Volkan, Vamık D., and Salman Akhtar. 1997. The Seed of Madness: Constitution, Maternal Environment, and Fantasy in the Organization of the Psychotic Core. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Volkan, Vamık D. 2002. Kozmik Kahkaha (Cosmic Laughter). Istanbul: Okuyanus.(original in Turkish)
Volkan, Vamık D. 2003. Atlarla Yaşıyan Kadın (The Woman who Lived with Horses). Istanbul: Okuyanus, (original Turkish).
Akhtar, Salman, and Vamık D. Volkan, (Eds.). 2005. Cultural Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and its Sublimations. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Volkan, Vamık D. 2004. Kusursuz Kadının Peşinde (Searching for a Perfect Woman). Istanbul: Okuyanus. (original in Turkish).
Akhtar, Salman, and Vamık D. Volkan, (Eds.). 2005. Mental Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and Its Pathology. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Volkan, Vamık D. 2007. Psikoterapide Nesne Iliskileri. Tr. by Ali Algın Köşkdere. Bursa: Terapi Psikiyatri Merkezi.(in Turkish).
Volkan, Vamık D. 2007. Fanustaki Insanlar (2009). Tr. Serap Erdogan. Istanbul: Everest Yayınevi. (original in Turkish)
Volkan, Vamık D. and Christopher Fowler (2009). Searching for a Perfect Woman: The Story of a Complete Psychoanalysis . New York: Jason Aronson.
(In Finnish: Haussa Täydellinen nainen (Searching for a Perfect Woman). Helsinki: Therapeia-Säätiö. 2005).
Volkan, Vamık D. (2010) Psychoanalytic Technique Expanded: A Textbook of Psychoanalytic Treatment. Istanbul/London: OA Press.
Volkan, Vamık D. (2010) Divanda Kılıç Dövüşü (Swordfight on the Couch), Tr. Banu Büyükkal. Istanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları. (original in Turkish)