Siblings in the Unconscious and Psychopathology

Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is the president of the International Dialogue Initiative and a former president of the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, and the American College of Psychoanalysts. He received the Sigmund Freud Award given by the city of Vienna in collaboration with the World Council of Psychotherapy, and in 2015 received the Sigourney Award, honouring achievements for the advancement of psychoanalysis.

Introduction , Unconscious Fantasies , The Intruder , Insects, Fish, Birds, and Animals , Territoriality and Unconscious Womb Fantasies , The Secret Restaurant , To Kill or to Repair , Deposited Representations , Twinning , Dead Sibling Representations , Charon and Herakles: Living with a Dead Brother , Diagnosis