Symptom Formations and Character Changes Due to Upheavals of War: Examples from Cyprus

Vamik D. Volkan, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 33, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.239

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This article offers a review of the psychoanalytic and psychiatric literature on symptom formation and individual and collective character changes triggered by war or by similarly violent civil upheaval. It is suggested that each such event should be studied by itself since many different circumstances can bring man to acts of aggression. The effects of the war on Cyprus, where group narcissism developed to compensate for hurt, constitute a case example of such focused study.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 33 • Number 2 • 1979, pp. 159–327

Pages: 239 - 262

PubMed: 377997

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Published in print: 1979, pp. 159–327

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Vamik D. Volkan, M.D.^†

Charlottesville, Va.

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Presented at the 14th National Scientific Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, May 6-7, 1978, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Medical Director, Blue Ridge Hospital Division of the University of Virginia, Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901.

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Symptom Formations and Character Changes Due to Upheavals of War: Examples from Cyprus

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