Dr. Kevin Volkan holds two doctorates in psychology, is a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, and a former Harvard Medical School faculty member. Dr. Volkan has testified before the United States Senate on pathological and dangerous fetishes. He has a new book, How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and some therapy tips. Take a listen!
The authors' aim is to improve psychoanalytic psychotherapists' professional identities as well as their approaches to patients. The wide-ranging subjects discussed include therapeutic principles; key psychoanalytic concepts; psychotherapeutic identity; the clinician's office; making formulations and interpretations; psychosocial development; individual and large-group identity; trauma and transgenerational transmission; dreams and unconscious fantasies; therapeutic play; personality organizations; cultural considerations; and psychoanalysis in organizations and groups.