Animal Killer

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.

About this Book , Foreword , My behind-the-scenes work with Peter , What makes a person live in an “island empire”? , Gregory’s birdhouse and Peter’s raccoon experience , Black bears and taxidermy , “Empty sleep”, therapeutic regression, and “crucial juncture” experiences , Operation Desert Storm, sinking a psychological submarine, and the inability to shoot a black bear , Mourning and oedipal issues , A “second look”, freeing a bird, and the end of psychoanalytic work