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Kevin Volkan

Kevin Volkan is a psychoanalytic psychologist and a Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands who also teaches in the clinical psychology doctoral programs at California Lutheran University and Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of Dancing Among the Maenads: The Psychology of Compulsive Drug Use (1994), Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, & Culture (2022), and How the Mind Works: Cases & Concepts in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (2023).

Haunted by Innovation: Technology, Psychoanalysis, and Growing Up in Palo Alto

Recently, I visited my hometown of Palo Alto, California. Sitting in the gentle sunshine outside Philz Coffee, watching well-heeled Stanford students studying f...

Kevin Volkan

“Why War?” Revisited: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Human Aggression

This essay is a preview of a new book Human Aggression and War which will be released in 2024. In 1933 Freud wrote a letter to Einstein later titled “Why War?...

Kevin Volkan

Critica is an inclusive and transdisciplinary publishing platform that focuses on offering a reflective and aesthetic space to consider social and cultural issues through a psychoanalytic and creative lens. It is also a forum for ideas at the intersection of psychoanalysis, creativity, philosophy, and the social sciences.

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