The Need to Have Enemies & Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships

By Vamık D. Volkan

Book Overview

This text contributes to the understanding of what determines the nature and quality of our social and political involvements. It is concerned with the psychological need to have enemies and allies... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876689993
• ISBN13: 9780876689998
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Why we always will have someone who we want to take distance?

In this book Volkan give a valuable tool to understand both foreing relations and personal enmity from a psychological/psychoanalytic perspective.