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Notice of the new Psychobiography Research and Publication Group of the Forum:

This link will describe a definition of psychobiography and the following: our vision, mission statement, membership benefits, and methodology.

If you are or becoming a psychobiographer, to join, fill out this membership questionnaire.

The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory was published on November 9th and is available from ORI Academic Press in ebook ($19.99) and softcover ($24.99) formats.

Call for Papers:

Call for Papers due on October 1, 2022, are on:
Psychobiography
Music and Musicians

Call for Papers due on January 1, 2023, are on:
The Psychoanalysis and Psychology of Fear

Additional Call for Papers are on a variety of special issues. Some upcoming Call for Papers are on The Psychology of Film and Screens Our Anxious Digitally Connected World.

Links enabling you to view some recent Psychohistory Forum meetings.
Lawrence Friedman Psychohistory Forum Meeting, “Erik Erikson Retrospective” 4-13-19
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Brian D’agostino Psyohistory Forum Meeting 3-9-19 (TBA)
David Lotto Meeting, “The Male Perspective on Sex and Power in the Age of #MeToo Meeting Report” 1-26-2019
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

Welcome to Clio’s Psyche and the Psychohistory Forum

Our mission is to enlarge and disseminate the related paradigms of applied psychoanalysis, political psychology, psychobiography, and psychological history. We seek to do this in non-technical language.

Our goal is always to stimulate psychohistorical thought, publications, research, and teaching. Some specific objectives are as follows:

To encourage the general public to think psychohistorically
To disseminate psychohistorical knowledge
To communicate with Psychohistory Forum members and Clio’s Psyche subscribers
To assist the networking of colleagues, especially in the Forum research groups
To grow the psychohistorical community and the larger group of people interested in what we do
To help clinicians focus on history and current events
To assist academics in all disciplines — history, literature, political science, psychology, sociology, anthropology — to utilize the insights and tools of psychoanalysis, psychobiography, and psychology
To foster psychohistorical debate, discussion, listening, publication, research, and thought
To help transmit the knowledge of an older generation of psychohistorians to those just entering the field
To research and publish the history of our field, honoring the work of those who have built it
To make available online obituaries of those who die, memorializing their work

In conclusion, we welcome others joining with us to achieve the goals articulated in this mission statement.

1994 2019

Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Clio’s Psyche (CliosPsycheEditor@gmail.com)
Inna Rozentsvit, MD, Associate Editor (inna.rozentsvit@gmail.com)
Peter W. Petschauer, PhD, Book Review Editor (petschauerpw@appstate.edu)

Editorial Board
C. Fred Alford, PhD University of Maryland • James William Anderson, PhD Northwestern University • David R. Beisel, PhD RCC-SUNY • Donald L. Carveth, PhD York University • Marilyn Charles, PhD Austen Riggs Center • Lawrence J. Friedman, PhD Harvard University • Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut • Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA • Denis O’Keefe, PhD New York University • Peter W. Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University • Vamık Volkan, MD University of Virginia

Membership of the Monthly Meeting Leadership Team of Clio and the Psychohistory Forum
Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, Chair Ramapo College and the Psychohistory Forum • James W. Anderson, PhD Northwestern University and Private Psychoanalytic Practice Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut • Juhani Ihanus, PhD University of Helsinki • David Lotto, PhD Journal of Psychohistory and Private Psychoanalytic Practice • Claude-Hélène Mayer, PhD University of Johannesburg • Denis O’Keefe, PhD New York University • Peter W. Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University • Inna Rozentsvit, MD Object Relations Institute • Vamık Volkan, MD University of Virginia

Psychohistory

What happened why is the historian’s
Agenda. What potentially extends
To every action of the common man’s,
So that the controversy never ends
Concerning which bits of the human past
To privilege. The stakes are high because
The what can shape the why. Why empires last,
Or birth rates fall, or tools emerge, or laws,
Are loaded questions that construe the what
As empires, birth rates, tools, or laws—that float
These as the active entities and not
The people doing what those terms denote.
All whats come down to human doings. See:
All whys thus end in psychohistory.

Rudolph Binion
Written for the annual compendium of Clio’s Psyche

Announcements and Forthcoming Events

Spring 2022, Volume 28 Number 3, of Clio’s Psyche is forthcoming. See Table of Contents below. To join/subscribe, see Membership. Back Issue Fall 2021, Volume 28 Number 1, can be viewed online.

Jim Anderson’s (Northwestern University/psychoanalyst) “Heinz Kohut’s Vulnerable Self, His Reaction to the Holocaust, and his Break with the Psychoanalytic Establishment” presentation will be held in person on September 17, 2022. Additional seminars will be announced online.

Interview with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD

Author of The Making of Psychohistory

(Conducted by Ken Fuchsman, EdD,

week of July 2, 2018)

Read Excerpts from Ch. 1 and Ch. 2 and Table of Contents from The Making of Psychohistory.

NOW AVAILABLE: The Making of Psychohistory: Origins, Controversies, and Pioneering Contributors by Dr. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD – Ordering information through the publisher (as a paperback ISBN # 978-1-138-58749-6, it is reduced at checkout at the Routledge publisher’s site with the code FLR40 from $38.95 to $31.16).

Most Recent Tables of Contents

Clio’s Psyche

Understanding the “Why” of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society

Fall 2022 Volume 29 Number 1

Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma and Resilience: Part I
Transgenerational Phenomena and its Relationship to Psychohistory . . . 1
                 Inna Rozentsvit
The Transgenerational Influence of My War-Traumatized Mother. . . . . .8
                 Martin Miller
Forever Haunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
                 Howard F. Stein
Do Not Say We Have Nothing: The Chinese Cultural Revolution . . . . .14
                 Jun Lu
Intergenerational Transmission in the Elovitz Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
                 Paul H. Elovitz
Can Resilience Be Transmitted Intergenerationally? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                 Burton Norman Seitler
Transgenerational: A Hole in the Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
                 Inna Rozentsvit
Our Emotions Projected onto Television, Podcasts, Movies, Electronic Devices (Media as Object Relations)
The Transformative Nature of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
                 Juhani Ihanus
Probing Some of My Emotional Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
                 Paul H. Elovitz
Emotional Engagement with Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
                 Susan Kavaler-Adler
I Love My Pet Rock: Attachment to People and Things . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
                 Richard Booth
For the Love of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
                 Peter W. Petschauer
Holding on to My Loved Ones Through Beautiful Objects . . . . . . . . . . 66
                 Brenda Solomon
Fluido Con Affetto: The Role of Flow and Emotion in Music . . . . . . . . .69
                 Michael A. Faber & Julie M. Licata
The Power of the Film Medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
                 Marilyn Fabe
Emotional Attachment to Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
                 Donna Crawley & Alexandra E. Gibson
Howard Stein Festschrift: Part II
The Temporary Eclipse of Place in Ancient Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
                 Charles W. Nuckolls
A Book of Healing Musical Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
                 Inna Rozentsvit
Howard Stein: A Kindred Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
                 David Lotto
A Psychohistorical Namaskar for Howard F. Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
                 Kenneth Alan Adams
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Authoritarianism vs. Democracy: Poland After 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
                 Krystyna Sanderson
Leaders’ Lies Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
                 Peter W. Petschauer
Interview with Thomas Ferraro: Sports Psychoanalyst . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
                 Paul H. Elovitz
First Year Report of the Psychobiography Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Book Review
Growing Up as the Daughter of Annie and Wilhelm Reich . . . . . . . . . 116
                 Peter W. Petschauer
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Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109, 110, & 121

Spring 2022 Volume 28 Number 3

Howard Stein Festschrift
Listening with Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
                 David R. Beisel
Professor Howard Stein: Intellectual, Psychohistorian, Writer, Poet . . . . . . . . 265
                 Peter W. Petschauer
Howard Stein’s Contribution to the Analysis of Culture & Its Discontents . . . 272
                 Juhani Ihanus
Stein’s Contributions to Group Process, Judaism, and Psychogeography . . . . 280
                 Paul H. Elovitz
Bearing Witness to Terror: A Meditation on Stein’s “Disposable Youth” . . . . 286
                 Nathan Gerard
Listening Deeply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
                 Michael A. Diamond
Howard Stein’s Invaluable Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
                 Michael Britton
You Can’t Make Up Howard Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .295
                 Seth Allcorn
A Personal Tribute to Howard Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
                 Avner Falk
Tribute to Howard Stein: Compassionate, Creative, Erudite, and a Friend . . . .298
                 Susan Hein
Putin and Ukraine
Putin, Ukraine, and Fratricide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
                 Juhani Ihanus
Ihanus’ Fine Synthesis on Putin and Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
                 David R. Beisel
Russian National Identity Quest as Motivation for Policymaking . . . . . . . . . . 313
                 Anna Geifman
Mother Russia’s Savior, Traumatic Reenactment, and the Atrocities of War . .320
                 Paul H. Elovitz
Tragedy Without Catharsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
                 Juhani Ihanus
The Emotions of Facing Death, Dying, and Life in the Era of COVID
Life and Death in Personal and Cultural Retrospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
                 Claude-Hélène Mayer
To a Branch Felled by Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
                 Claude Barbre
Dying (Not Only) in Times of COVID-19: Transfer of Dying Patients . . . . . . 335
                 Karsten Weber & Wolfgang M. George
Red Coat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
                 Ted Kooser
Death and the Pandemic: A Poem by Ted Kooser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
                 Judith Harris
Photo from the Funeral Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .348
                 Harrison Bae Wein
Religion, Meaning, and Fear of Death in the Time of COVID . . . . . . . . . . . . .349
                 Donna Crawley
November Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
                 Claude Barbre
Edvard Munch, the Spanish Flu, and COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
                 James L. Kelley
Neither Practically Dead nor Exactly Alive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
                 Mohammad Memarian
A Doctor’s Reflections on Death and Dying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363
                 Jamshid A. Marvasti
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Psychobiographical Reflections on Heidegger’s “Turn” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .367
                 Robert D. Stolorow
Why the World Loves Flaubert’s Parrot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
                 Tom Ferraro
————————————————————————————————————Meeting Report
Fuchs’ “The Childhood Origins of Political Violence and Extremism” . . . . . .375
                 Paul H. Elovitz & Metin N. San
Book Reviews
Beisel and Javors’ New Visions of Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
                 Dan Dervin
Peter Longerich’s Meticulously Researched Biography of Hitler . . . . . . . . . . .381
                 Peter W. Petschauer
Putting Pop Culture on the Couch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .384
                 Jack Schwartz
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Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 & 389

Winter 2022 Volume 28 Number 2

Human Space in our Modern, Virtual, and COVID World
COVID-19 and the Changing Spaces We Inhabit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Peter W. Petschauer
COVID-19, Psychoanalysis, and Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Krystyna Sanderson
Spaces We Create, Enjoy, Fear, and Live in During a Pandemic . . . . . . . . . 141
Paul H. Elovitz
Abe Isaac’s Ode to Melanie Klein’s Breast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Howard Covitz
Some Reflections on Using and Altering Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Richard Booth
Inner Spaces During COVID-19: Mount Meru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Padmavathy Desai
Space and Transcultural Identity Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Claude-Hélène Mayer
Mean Girls Go Online while Invading the Psychological Space of Others . 159
Karyne E. Messina
The False Neutrality of Corona Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Peter W. Petschauer
Cinema: The Art of Psychogeography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
Holger Schumacher
Space in a Time of Pandemic and Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Norman Simms
Recuperative Spaces in African American Children’s Literature . . . . . . . . 176
Mark I. West
Symposium on the Paranoid Tradition in American History and Politics
An Introduction to Paranoid Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
Paul H. Elovitz
The Paranoid Style in American History and Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Ken Fuchsman
Degrees of Suspicion and Paranoia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Paul H. Elovitz
Sources on the Psychology of Conspiracy to Supplement Fuchsman . . . . . 196
Ted Goertzel
Targeting the Foreign Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Juhani Ihanus
Some Psychodynamic Interpretations of the Paranoid Tradition . . . . . . . . 202
Dorothea Leicher
Mass Psychosis and the Paranoid Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205
David Lotto
The Geographical “Solution”: A Source of National Paranoia? . . . . . . . . . . .208
Candace Orcutt
Seeking to Understand the Fears Leading to Paranoia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Pamela Steiner
The French: European Champions of Anxiety and Mistrust? . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Brigitte Demeure
The Paranoid Style Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
Ken Fuchsman
————————————————————————————————————From Suspicion to Paranoia: The General Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Richard Booth
Donald Trump & the Paranoid Style in the 2020 Presidential Campaign . 226
Roderick P. Hart
The Anatomy of Paranoia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Michael Maccoby
America’s Paranoid Fear and Denigration of Indians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234
Howard F. Stein
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Claude-Hélène Mayer: A Multifaceted Psychobiographer in Two Cultures . 235
Paul H. Elovitz
Meeting Report
Petschauer’s Fine Online Presentation on Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Paul H. Elovitz
Book Review
Anne Sebba’s Psychologically Astute Account of Ethel Rosenberg . . . . . . . 248
Paul Salstrom
Announcing the Psychobiography Group of the Psychohistory Forum . . . 251
Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252
Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228, 253, 255

Fall 2021 Volume 28 Number 1

David Beisel Festschrift Essays in Honor of David R. Beisel
David R. Beisel: Extraordinary Psychohistorian and Colleague . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Paul H. Elovitz
The Unique Approaches of Two Authoritarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Peter W. Petschauer
The Tyrant’s Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Peter W. Petschauer
David Beisel: A Scholar’s Scholar in Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Howard F. Stein
Resistance and Transformation in Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Juhani Ihanus
David Beisel is Also a Psychohistorian of the Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Ken Fuchsman
Beisel Appreciations
Passionate Journeys to Psychohistory: Honoring the Brilliant Psychohistorian . 31
Olga Shutova
Collaborating With Dave: New Perspectives/New Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Irene Javors
Celebrating My Friendship with a Splendid Human Being: David Beisel . . 35
Tom Artin
Doing Psychohistory with David Beisel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Gerhard Bliersbach
Toasting Dave Beisel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Kenneth Alan Adams
Enjoying Jazz with David Beisel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Martin Quitt
Coping in Our Anxious World
Coping with Anxiety in Our Fearful Digital World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Paul H. Elovitz
Anxiety, Help, and Helplessness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Matthew H. Bowker
Virtual Anxiety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Juhani Ihanus
Coping In Our Anxious World: Implementing Mentalization . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Karyne E. Messina
The Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Howard H. Covitz
Our Anxieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Peter W. Petschauer
Our Anxiety Can be Reduced by Addressing the World’s Problems . . . . . . . 65
Pamela Steiner
Music as a Powerful Reducer of Anxiety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Julie Jaffee Nagel
The Psychology of Teaching: Part II
Psychoanalytic and Psychohistorical Pedagogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Judith Harris
Psychoanalysis and Education: A Developmental Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Burton Norman Seitler
Psychoanalytic Pedagogy in the Works of Bracher, Berman, and Alcorn . . 80
Judith Harris
Teaching Therapeutic Imagination: A Neglected Competency in Psychology . 85
Claude Barbre
A Psychoanalytic Literary Pedagogy: Practices for Identity Development . 91
Mark Bracher
Learning and Helping People Learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Paul H. Elovitz
Education and Learning: Strangers to Psychoanalysis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Juhani Ihanus
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Danielle Knafo: The Psychology of Creativity and Perversion . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Paul H. Elovitz & Peter W. Petschauer
Our Virtual Psychohistory Forum Meeting on Paranoid Politics . . . . . . . . . 117
Paul H. Elovitz
The Journey of History to Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Peter W. Petschauer
Book Review
The Armenian Genocide: Can Conciliation Replace Denial ? . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Harold Takooshian
Memorial
Remembering Richard L. Rubenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Howard F. Stein
Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119, 129