Friday, November 18, 2022

Social Cognitive Research, Cultural Issues, and Schizophrenia: Implications for Psychoanalysis
presented by Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. and Kevin Volkan Ed.D., Ph.D, M.P.H.
ON ZOOM: 527-999-5540
6:00 PM to 6:30 PM socializing
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM presentation
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM Q&A

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About our speakers
Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia; Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis; and Emeritus Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is also Emeritus President of the International Dialogue Initiative and 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 a member of the International Negotiation Network under the directorship of former President Jimmy Carter, an Inaugural Yitzhak Rabin Fellow, Rabin Center for Israeli Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel; Visiting Professor of psychiatry at four universities in Turkey, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; Fulbright/Sigmund Freud-Foundation Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria; a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna and Visiting Professor at El Bosque University, Bogota, Colombia. He was also a board member of the Freud Foundation in Vienna and a member of the Working Group on Terror and Terrorism, International Psychoanalytic Association.

Dr. Volkan is the author, coauthor, editor or coeditor of sixty-two psychoanalytic and psychopolitical books. His book, Large-Group psychology: Racism, Societal Divisions, Narcissistic Leaders and Who We Are Now, received the Gradiva 2021 Best Book Award. He has written hundreds of published papers and book chapters. He is 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 was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times; letters of support were sent from twenty-seven countries.
Kevin Volkan Ed.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. is a founding faculty member and Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands, where he researches and teaches courses on severe psychopathology, culture-bound disorders, and Nazi Germany. Dr. Volkan also currently serves on the Graduate Medical Education faculty for the Community Memorial Hospital System in Ventura, California, where he teaches and conducts research with medical residents. He is also an adjunct faculty member for California Lutheran University’s clinical psychology doctorate program.

Dr. Volkan holds doctorates in clinical and quantitative psychology, is a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, and a former Harvard Medical School faculty member and administrator.

Dr. Volkan has testified before the United States Senate on pathological and dangerous fetishes and has made numerous appearances on television, radio, and podcasts as a psychological expert.

Dr. Volkan’s clinical training and proficiency is in psychodynamic psychotherapy, though he also has experience using several other clinical practice modalities. He supported himself through college by working as a psych tech in a locked-in facility where he interacted (and practically lived) with over 100 residents who suffered from schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders.

After completing graduate school and obtaining his psychology license, he opened a private practice and worked as a staff psychologist in a state hospital. Dr. Volkan’s private patients have included a diverse population, including all socioeconomic strata and levels of psychological distress: drug addiction, neuroses, personality disorders, autism, dementia, organic brain injury, and schizophrenia.

Dr. Volkan was awarded the Sustained Superior Accomplishment Award from the State of California for his clinical work.

His publications include:
Dancing Among the Maenads: The Psychology of Compulsive Drug Use, one of the few psychoanalytic works examining drug addiction. Recently he has published on delusional misidentification syndromes, hoarding, narcissism, and demonic possession.

His latest book was co-written with his father, Dr. Vamik Volkan: Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture (UK: Phoenix Press).

SUMMARY:
Dr. Kevin Volkan will discuss how neurobiological research on social cognition can inform psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapies for patients suffering from schizophrenia. Social cognition research will also be examined in light of certain cultural practices, especially those related to early object relations, which could play a role in determining resilience to schizophrenia.

Dr. Vamik Volkan will discuss several cases he treated that illustrate the theoretical points of the lecture.

Objectives:
Objective 1: Gain an understanding of the neurobiology underlying social cognition
Objective 2: Understand social cognition deficits among people suffering from schizophrenia
Objective 3: Learn how social cognitive research could be related to early object relations via cultural practices
Objective 4: Gain insight into which psychoanalytic techniques are likely to be applicable to schizophrenic populations
Objective 5: Examine possible adaptations of psychoanalytic techniques that might be useful in working with more general schizophrenic populations

References:
Green, M. F., Horan, W. P., Lee, J., McCleery, A., Reddy, L. F., & Wynn, J. K. (2018). Social disconnection in schizophrenia and the general community. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 44(2), 242–249

Green, M. F., Lee, J., & Wynn, J. K. (2020). Experimental approaches to social disconnection in the general community: Can we learn from schizophrenia research? World Psychiatry, 19(2), 177–178.

Horan, W. P., Pineda, J. A., Wynn, J. K., Iacoboni, M., & Green, M. F. (2014). Some markers of mirroring appear intact in schizophrenia: Evidence from mu suppression. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(3), 1049–1060.
Volkan, K., & Volkan, V.D. (2022). Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, & Culture. Phoenix Publications: Oxfordshire, UK.

Volkan, V. (1995). The Infantile Psychotic Self and Its Fates Understanding and Treating Schizophrenics and Other Difficult Patients. Jason Aronson.

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