'A new book by Vamik Volkan is always a cause for celebration. His writing takes the reader to the
heart of psychoanalysis - the elucidation and working through of core unconscious fantasies and conflicts. Volkan avoids the pitfalls of parochialism as he cogently describes effective psychoanalytic work. Psychoanalytic Technique Expanded should become the standard textbook of psychoanalysis. Generations of psychoanalysts will be in Volkan’s debt.'
- Richard M. Waugaman, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus, Washington Psychoanalytic
Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.;
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Washington,
D.C. 'In this exciting book, a master psychoanalyst makes his innovative “Field Work” teaching technique available to all of us. We can, figuratively, sit outside the one-way mirror to watch Dr. Volkan treat people with neurotic, borderline, and narcissistic personalities, from start to finish, using both modern and classical psychoanalytic techniques. Not only that, but he explains what he is doing while he is doing it! Dr. Volkan actually answers the perennial questions, "What am I treating?” as well as “What do I say?” and “Why does it work?”. Fascinating and extraordinarily illuminating, Psychoanalytic Technique Expanded is unique in offering a bird's-eye view of d analytic treatment for different types of disorders in the 21st century.'
- Jerome S. Blackman, M.D., DFAPA, FIPA, FACPsa, Training and Supervising Analyst, New York
Freudian Society, Washington, D.C.; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Eastern Virginia Medical School,
Norfolk, VA; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA; Psychiatry
Residency Faculty, Naval Medical Centre, Portsmouth, VA; Author of 101 Defenses: How the Mind
Shields Itself and Get the Diagnosis Right: Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders 'This book - a culmination of 40 years of experience - is one of the finest books I have read for some
years. Dr. Volkan combines his deep and thorough understanding of the individual human psyche with
a profound grasp of large-group psychology, a combination that marks this book as a unique contribution to our psychoanalytic literature and posits Dr. Volkan as a singular professional in our psychoanalytic landscape. Keeping a keen eye on the unconscious and on object relations, without neglecting the intersubjective dimensions of the analytic relationship, Dr. Volkan translates and implements many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, supervisor and teacher in a very open, candid and accessible manner which makes this book a gift to teachers as well as students of psychoanalysis.'
- Michael Shoshani Rosenbaum Psy.D., Training and Supervising Analyst and Founding Chair of the Tel-
Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Faculty member of the New York University Program
for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Author of Dare to Be Human: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic
Journey Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About This Book
Part I - Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Neurotic Personality Organization
Chapter 1 The Therapeutic Setting
Chapter 2 Initial Fantasies and Obstacles
Chapter 3 What Am I Treating, #1 - The Initial Questions
Chapter 4 What Am I Treating, #2 - Making a Formulation
Chapter 5 Initial Therapeutic Communications
Chapter 6 Freud’s List of Resistances
Chapter 7 Updating Freud’s List of Resistances
Chapter 8 Making an Interpretation: An Intertwining of Hanging and Flushing a Toilet
Chapter 9 Years of Two Persons Meeting in a Room
Chapter 10 Therapeutic Play: Let There Be Light
Chapter 11 A Psychoanalytic Process from its Beginning to its Termination, #1 — A Sword Fight Part II - Individuals with Actualized Unconscious Fantasies and Transgenerational Transmissions
Chapter 12 Actualized Unconscious Fantasy
Chapter 13 A Psychoanalytic Process from its Beginning to its Termination, #2 — Bringing a Dead
Mother to Life and Compulsive Masturbation
Chapter 14 Psychological Burdens Visited by One Generation upon Another
Chapter 15 The Intertwining of External and Internal Wars Part III - Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Organization
Chapter 16 What Am I Treating, #3 - Finding “Splitting”
Chapter 17 Introduction to Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Organization
Chapter 18 A Psychoanalytic Process from its Beginning to its Termination, #3 — A Man Who Lived in
an Iron Ball
Chapter 19 What Does Working with a Patient like Brown Teach Us?
Chapter 20 Successful, Masochistic, Sadistic, and Borderline-near Individuals with Narcissistic
Personality Organization Part IV - Who Else Can We Treat on the Analytic Couch?
Chapter 21 A Psychoanalytic Process from its Beginning to its Termination, #4 — The Analysis of a
Southern Belle
Chapter 22 From Analyzing Jennifer to Analyzing Persons with Borderline Personality Organizations
Chapter 23 What am I Treating, #4? Technical Considerations for Analysis of Individuals with
Borderline Personality Organization
Chapter 24 A Story of Pismis Split Transference Reaching a “Crucial Juncture” Coda
Glossary
Institutions and Organizations Mentioned in this Book
References
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Author Notes about the author: Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of
Medicine, 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 was the
Medical Director of the University of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Hospital and director of the University of
Virginia’s Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction. He was a past president of the
International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, the Turkish-American
Neuropsychiatric Association, and the American College of Psychoanalysts. He holds Honorary
Doctorate degrees from Kuopio University, Finland and from Ankara University, Turkey.
He is the author or co-author of forty books and the editor or co-editor of ten more. He has served on
the editorial boards of sixteen professional journals including the Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association. He has published more than 400 scientific papers or book chapters. His
work has been translated into many languages. |
