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Books
(1976). Primitive Internalized Object Relations: A Clinical Study of Schizophrenic, Borderline, and Narcissistic Patients
(1979). Cyprus: War and Adaptation: A Psychoanalytic History of Two Ethnic Groups in Conflict
(1981). Linking Objects and Linking Phenomena
(1982). Primitive Internalized Object Relations: A Clinical Study of Schizophrenic, Borderline, and Narcissistic Patients
(1984). What Do You Get When You Cross a Dandelion with a Rose?
(1985). Depressive States and Their Treatment
(1986). Vamik Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz. The Immortal Ataturk: A Psychobiography
(1988). The Need to Have Enemies & Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships
(1990). Vamik D. Volkan, Demetrios A. Julius, and Joseph V. Montville. The Psychodynamics of International Relationships: Concepts and Theories (Psychodynamics of International Relationships)
(1990). Vamik D. Volkan and Charles W. Socarides. The Homosexualities: Reality, Fantasy, and the Arts
(1991). Vamik D. Volkan, Demetrios A. Julius, and Joseph V. Montville The Psychodynamics of International Relationships: Unofficial Diplomacy at Work
(1992). Charles W. Socarides and Vamik D. Volkan. The Homosexualities and the Therapeutic Process
(1993). Vamik D. Volkan and Elizabeth Zintl. Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief
(1995). Six Steps in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Organization
(1995). The Infantile Psychotic Self: Understanding and Treating Schizophrenics and Other Difficult Patients. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
(1996) Vamik D. Volkan and Salman Akhtar. The Seed of Madness: Constitution, Environment, and Fantasy in the Organization of the Psychotic Core
(1997) Siblings in the Unconscious and Psychopathology: Womb Fantasies, Claustrophobias, Fear of Pregnancy, Murderous Rage, Animal Symbolism
(1997). Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
(1999) Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, Andrew W. Dod. Richard Nixon
(2002). Volkan, V. D., Ast, Gabriele, and Greer, William. The Third Reich in the Unconscious: Transgenerational Transmission and its Consequences. New York: Bruenner-Routledge.
(2004). Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror
(2004) Salman Akhtar and Vamik D. Volkan Mental Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and Its Pathology
(2006). Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts. Pitchstone Publishing. ISBN 0972887571

Vam?k D. Volkan, M.D. (born 1932) is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He is also the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and a past president of both the International Society of Political Psychology and the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society.

He was born in 1932 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

For nearly three decades, Dr. Volkan has led interdisciplinary teams to various trouble spots around the world and has brought high-level “enemy” representatives together for years-long unofficial dialogues. His work in the field has resulted in his developing new theories about large-group behavior in times of peace and war. He has authored or coauthored more than thirty books and has edited or coedited ten more.

In 1987, Vamik Volkan founded and until 2002 directed Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

His most recent book is Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts (2006).

Mehmet Toner, PhD is a world renowned cryobiologist and a professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Toner first gained prominence for his theory of intra-cellular ice formation while finishing his PhD at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). Since then Prof. Toner has made valuable contributions to the specific fields of cryobiology and biopreservation and to the wider field of biomedical engineering in the form of thirteen patented inventions, numerous book chapters, over 200 journal publications, and over 350 scientific presentations.

Toner was born in Istanbul, Turkey in July, 1958. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University in 1983, and his master’s degree and doctorate in Mechanical Engineering and Medical Engineering at MIT in 1989. Toner worked on his doctorate under Prof. Ernest Cravalhowho is widely known as one of the founders of the field of cryobiology and is still a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.

Currently located at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Hospital for Children, the Center for Engineering in Medicine(CEM)is regarded as one of the finest biomedical research groups in the world. Dr. Toner currently serves as its Associate Director, as well as the Director of the CEM-affiliated BioMEMS Resource Center. The group has produced researchers that occupy prominent positions in academia and industry, and continues to train post-doctoral fellows and graduate students from MIT and Harvard University. Dr. Toner is fondly known to some as the “Turkish Guy”.

Dr Yazici lives in New York with his family.

Dr. Yazici is a Turkish American, in 1988-1994 he attended the Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty of Istanbul University in Istanbul, Turkey where he earned his medical degree. Between 1994-1997 Dr. Yazici completed his internship and residency at Creighton University in Nebraska. He did his fellowship in rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery of Weill Medical College of Cornell University in 1997-2000.

Dr. Yazici is involved in clinical outcomes research, specializing in Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Vasculitic conditions, especially Behcet’s syndrome. He has published over 100 articles and has given over 100 presentations at national and international rheumatology conferences.

Dr. Yusuf Yazici is a rheumatologist and a clinical researcher at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and the Director of the Seligman Center for Advanced Therapeutics and the Behcet’s Syndrome Evaluation, Treatment and Research Center at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.

Widely acclaimed poet Can Yucel and Gazi Ya?argil have been best friends during their years in Ankara Atatürk Lisesi.
Ya?argil’s education in Germany was financed by the Ministry of Education with the help of Hasan Ali Yucel, then-Minister of Education and the father of Can Yücel, acclaimed poet and Ya?argil’s best friend. Yucel had refused to send his son Can Yucel abroad, saying that doing so would be misuse of his office. After seeing his father’s position on this issue, Can Yucel had given the money he saved for his education abroad to Ya?argil.

1957 Vogt-Award of the Swiss Ophthalmological Society
1968 Robert-Bing-Prize of Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
1976 Marcel-Benoit-Prize of Swiss Federation
1980 “Neurosurgeon of the Year”
1981 Pioneer Microsurgeon Award of the International Microsurgical Society, Sydney, Australia
1988 Medal of Honor of Universita di Napoli e della Compagna Naples, Italy
1992 Medical Award of the Republic of Turkey
1997 Gold Medal of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
1998 Distinguished Faculty Scholar, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
1998 Honored as “Neurosurgeon of the Century” by the Brazilian Neurosurgical Society
1999 European Association of Neurological Surgeons Medal of Honor
1999 Honored as “Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950-1999″ by the journal Neurosurgery at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
2000 Fedor Krause Medal, German Neurosurgical Society
2000 Honorary Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons
2000 Medal of the Republic of Turkey
2000 Award of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
2002 International Francesco Durante Award, Italy

1976 Academia Brasileira de Neurocirurgia
1977 Society of Neurological Surgeons, USA
1979 American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas, USA (Honorary Fellow)
1981 Canadian Neurosurgical Society
1986 Congress of Neurological Surgeons
1987 Japan Neurosurgical Society
1989 American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Harvey Cushing Society
1989 Swiss Society of Neuroradiology
1990 Royal Society of Medicine, London, Section of Neurology
1990 Turkish Neurosurgical Society
1990 International Skull Base Society
1993 Swiss Neurosurgical Society
1994 Argentine Neurosurgical Society
1998 American Society of Neuroradiology
1998 Turkish Academy of Sciences
1999 Peruvian Neurosurgical Society
2000 Italian Neurosurgical Society
2002 Hong Kong Neurosurgical Society
2003 Rocky Mountain Neurosurgical Society, USA
2003 Mexican Society of Neurological Surgery
2006 Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurocirurgia

1975 Austin, Texas, USA
1992 Ürgüp, Turkey
1999 Rosario, Argentina