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Perdigão, H.G. (1986). The Immortal Atatürk. A Psychobiography: By Vamik D. Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. 374 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 55:681-688.

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(1986). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 55:681-688

The Immortal Atatürk. A Psychobiography: By Vamik D. Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. 374 pp.

H. Gunther Perdigão Author Information

History and psychoanalysis have certain affinities. Both disciplines study human thoughts, actions, and motives, sharing the difficulties inherent in retrospective studies. Both examine a multiplicity of possible explanations, and each historian and psychoanalyst emphasizes different causal connections. The epistemological problem is similar in both fields. The historian attempts to recreate objective reality and the psychoanalyst to recreate psychological reality.

The Immortal Atatürk, the result of a collaboration between a historian and a psychoanalyst, blends the Turkish historical milieu with a wealth of information about the psychological life of an outstanding man of the twentieth century, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The book covers much new ground, resulting from extensive interviews with those who had first-hand contact with Atatürk and with the formation of the new government in Ankara and the last gasps of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul. It abound

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