NYPSI’s 1047th Scientific Meeting:  Applied Analysis in Global Diplomacy  with Vamik Volkan, M.D.  To be followed by discussion with Henry Nunberg, M.D.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021  |  8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (Held Virtually on ZOOM) $30 – General Admission $20 – Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members and students Register HERE,  visit    nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

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Unconscious factors undoubtedly play a role, and most likely a major role, in matters of global democracy. This meeting will entail a presentation by Dr. Vamik Volkan focused on the intertwining of shared external events and individual and large-group psychology. Starting with Sigmund Freud psychoanalysts have written about cultural, historical and religious topics. But these topics were avoided by most classical psychoanalysts while they were sitting behind their analysands. This situation has changed. Dr. Volkan will present cases to illustrate how shared traumas at the hand of Others influence a person’s internal world. Then he will describe how members of an ethnic, national, religious or ideological large group, under certain situations, are obliged to protect and maintain their large-group identity and their borders. Dr. Volkan’s presentation will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Henry Nunberg on what is conscious and what is unconscious in this arena. Also to be explored is the question of whether what is unconscious can be modified by experience and how we might characterize the relationship between psychodynamic factors and relations between nations.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered.

References of Interest
1. Volkan, V. D. (2020). Large-Group Psychology: Racism, Societal Divisions, Narcissistic Leaders and Who We Are Now. London: Phoenix Publishing.

2. Volkan, V. D. (2019). Large-group Identity, Who Are We Now? Leader-Follower Relationship and Societal-Political Divisions. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79: 139-155.

3. Volkan, V. D. (2019). A Study of Ghosts in the Human Psyche: Story of a Muslim Armenian. London: Phoenix Publishing.

4. Volkan, V. D. (2018). International Societal Movements, the Other, Psychological Border, and Large-scale Voter Behavior During the 2016 United States Presidential Election. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 23 (1):28-42.5. Volkan, V. D. (2018). Refugees as the Other: Large-group Identity, Terrorism and Border Psychology. Group Analysis, 51: 343-358.
6. Volkan, V. D. (2015). A Nazi Legacy: A Study of Depositing, Transgenerational Transmission, Dissociation and Remembering Through Action. London: Karnac.

Vamik Volkan, M.D. received his medical education at the School of Medicine, University of Ankara, Turkey. He is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia; an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute; and an emeritus Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Mass. He is the emeritus president of the International Dialogue Initiative [www.internationaldialogueinitiative.com] and a former president of the Turkish-American Neuropsychiatric Society, the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, and the American College of Psychoanalysts.

Dr. Volkan was the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI) at the School of Medicine, University of Virginia; a member of the International Negotiation Network (INN) under the directorship of former President Jimmy Carter; a temporary consultant to the World Health Organization in Albania and Macedonia; a member of the International Advisory Board, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; an inaugural Yitzhak Rabin Fellow, Rabin Center for Israeli Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel; a visiting professor of psychiatry, University of Ankara in the Turkish capital, Ege University in Izmir and Cerrahpașa Medical School in Istanbul, Turkey; a visiting professor of political psychology, Bahceșehir University, Istanbul, Turkey; an honorary supervisor and consultant, Società per lo studio dei disturbi della personalità in Milan, Italy; a visiting professor of law, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; a Fulbright/Sigmund Freud-Foundation visiting scholar of psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria; a visiting professor of political science at the University of Vienna; aboard member of the Freud Foundation in Vienna; a member of the Working Group on Terror and Terrorism, International Psychoanalytic Association, and a visiting professor at El Bosque University, Bogota, Colombia.

Dr. Volkan was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times with letters of support being sent from twenty-seven countries. He has been a recipient of the Nevitt Sanford, Elise Hayman, Bryce Boyer, Hans Strupp, Sigmund Freud (given by the city of Vienna), and Mary Sigourney awards, and the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from Kuopio University (now called the University of Eastern Finland), Finland; Ankara University, Turkey; the Eastern European Psychoanalytic Institute, Russia; Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, and Kyrenia-American University, North Cyprus.

The author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of sixty psychoanalytic and psycho-political books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Finnish, German, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish, Dr. Volkan has written hundreds of published papers and book chapters and has served on the editorial boards of sixteen national or international professional journals.

Henry Nunberg, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard University Law School and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.  He is a member of and on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  Dr. Nunberg, formerly on the voluntary faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College, has a particular interest in neuropsychoanalysis and is a member of the Neuropsychoanalysis Society.  He is Professional Director of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund, Inc. Dr. Nunberg’s publications have most recently focused on trauma not emanating from childhood.

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1) explain the significance of cultural and historical context for the analytic situation
2) explain the meaning of cultural and historical context for both analyst and analysand when their cultural contexts are different
3) describe the role of large-group identity, border psychology and related unconscious factors in global democracy

Licensed Psychologists

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Disclosure: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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Licensed Physicians

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (2) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important disclosure information for all learners: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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Lois Oppenheim, PhD,
Chair of Scientific Program Committee

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