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Large Group Psychology and Human Aggression
A Virtual Workshop for the Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
April 26, 2025 9:00am-12:00pm (3 CEUs)
With Vamik Volkan, MD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Washington D.C.
This seminar describes how an individual develops a large group identity, drawing on case material from a long-experienced analyst. Then, psychoanalytic conceptions of aggression, as it is used to protect and maintain a shared large group identity, are considered as potentially relevant to treatment. These individually held, large group identities will also be contextualized socially. People refer to some “real events” as causes of such large-scale conflicts. However, when such conflicts become chronic, large-group psychologies contaminate political, legal, economic, military and other shared issues. The seminar will examine those shared narcissistic investments in large-group identities and the ways they create stubborn obstacles for finding peaceful and satisfactory diplomatic and legal solutions to large-group conflicts, especially if they become chronic.