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Call for Papers:
“The Psychohistory of Comic Heroes/Villains” (Due October 1, 2019)
“Lotto Symposium: Sex and Power in the Age of #MeToo” (Due October 1, 2019)
(Companion papers and comments welcome. Email Clio’s Psyche editor at cliospsycheeditor@gmail.com for Lotto’s paper.)
“Psychohistorical Insights on Election 2020 and the Candidates” (Due April 1 and June 15, 2020)
Additional Call for Papers are on caregiving; altruism; service; and generativity.
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
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).
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.
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2019
Paul H. Elovitz, PhD
Editor, Clio’s Psyche
Announcements and Forthcoming Events
Fall 2018, Volume 25 Number 1, of Clio’s Psyche is now available. See Table of Contents below. To join/subscribe, see Membership. Back Issue Winter 2018, Volume 24 Number 2, can be viewed online.
Most Recent Tables of Contents
Clio’s Psyche
Understanding the “Why” of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society
Spring 2019 Volume 25 Number 3
The Flame of Trauma Symposium
The Flame of Trauma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Peter Petschauer
Trauma with a Silver Lining in the Middle Ages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Samuel Cohn
How My Greatest Trauma Helped to Shape My Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
Paul H. Elovitz
Response to Peter Petschauer’s Paper: “The Flame of Trauma”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246
Ruth M. Litjmaer
Considering Childhood Acute Stress and Adult Trauma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250
Jean Oggins
Trauma in Late-Life Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Paul Salstrom
Managing after the Loss of Trust in the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255
Sverr Varvin
The Influence of Trauma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259
Neil Wilson
Moral Injury as Moral Trauma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261
Fred Alford
Conclusion of the Psychology of Trauma Symposium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265
Peter Petschauer
PTSD and Moral Injury as the Consequences of War Trauma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Jamshid Marvasti
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Jacques Szaluta: Witness to History, Psychohistorian, and Psychoanalyst. . . . . . . . .279
Ken A. Fuchsman and Paul H. Elovitz
Lincoln
A Dialogue on the Psychology of Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291
Charles B. Strozier and James W. Anderson
Lincoln’s Grandiosity in Saving the Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Christopher N. Breiseth
An Ego Ideal of My Youth: Lincoln’s Foreshadowing Dream and Guilt . . . . . . . . . . . .309
Paul H. Elovitz
Thomas Lincoln’s “Goodness of Fit” with His Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Paul C. Holinger
Psychologizing Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Paul Salstrom
Strozier’s Final Thoughts on the Lincoln Commentaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
Charles B. Strozier
Anderson Responds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
James W. Anderson
Abraham Lincoln’s Maternal and National Affiliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Herbert Barry III
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Two Young American Male Murderers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Ken Fuchsman
Jair Bolsonaro Is a Brazilian Bovarist, Not a Trump Clone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Ted Goertzel
Ralph Colp: My Darwinian Psychohistorian and Psychiatrist Father. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Judith Colp Rubin
Trauma and Blame in the Israel-Palestine Conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Barry Shapiro
Meeting Report: The Male Perspective in the Age of #MeToo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .354
Paul H. Elovitz
Book Reviews
Imagining Mary: A Major Contribution to the Psychohistory of Religion . . . . . . . . . 359
Dan Dervin
Kleinian Wild Psychoanalytic Speculations on Trump. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Paul H. Elovitz
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Complex Quest for Identity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Marian W. Margulies
Reflections, Reverie and Analytic Meditation: Eigen’s Way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Shomer Zwelling
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Letter to the Editor: Puzzles of Brexit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
Samuel Cohn
Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Call for Papers by Journal of Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Call for Papers by Clio’s Psyche for Future Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229
Winter 2019 Volume 25 Number 2
Gender and Sexuality
H.G. Wells: A Case Study of Sex Addiction… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Ted Goertzel
Bestiality and Zoophilia: On Sexual Abuse and Sexual Orientation. . . . . . . . . 137
Juhani Ihanus
Some Reflections About German Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Peter Webb Petschauer
The Pedophile and His Penis: Is “Anatomy Destiny”?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Jamshid A. Marvasti
Women in Psychohistory: A Short Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Peter Webb Petschauer
The Psychohistorian and the Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Dan Dervin
Commentaries on The Making of Psychohistory
Indispensable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Dan Dervin
Elovitz as a Leader of Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Herbert Barry
Praise for the First History of Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
William Meyers
An Exuberant Voice among Many Psychohistorical Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Juhani Ihanus
Thoughtful People Do Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Marcia Anne Newton
A Medievalist’s Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Christina Stern
Methodology and Subjectivity in Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
David R. Beisel
The Opposition and Resistance to Psychohistory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Joyce M. Rosenberg
Psychohistory Has Many Rooms and Riches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Kenneth Rasmussen
For the Second Volume of The Making of Psychohistory
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Geoffrey Cocks
Some Thoughts on History Plus Psychoanalysis Equaling Psychohistory . . . . 194
Jay Einhorn
A Professional and Personal History of Psychohistory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Nick Duffell
The Struggle for British Psychohistory and the Value of Elovitz’ Making. . . . 201
Brett Kahr
Commentaries by the Makers and Psychohistory’s Next Assignment. . . . . . . .204
Paul H. Elovitz
Book and Film Reviews
A Film Review of RBG: Changing the Landscape of Gender Equality . . . . . . 209
Ingrid Geiger & Joseph G. Ponterotto
A Proposed Methodology to Save Humankind from Self-Destruction. . . . . . . 214
Michael Britton
Memorials
In Memory of Philip Roth (1933-2018). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Ken Fuchsman
A Presidential Psychobiographer Remembers Bush and McCain . . . . . . . . . . .223
Paul H. Elovitz
Letter to the Editor: Puzzles of Brexit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Samuel Cohn
Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228
Call for Papers by Journal of Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Call for Papers by Clio’s Psyche for Future Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Call for Papers by Clio’s Psyche on “Your History of Psychohistory” . . . . . . 231
Fall 2018 Volume 25 Number 1
Awakening from the Nightmare of the Subjugation and Violation of Women Symposium
Awakening from the Nightmare of the Subjugation and Violation of Women. . . 1
Paul H. Elovitz
Women’s Lives and Struggles over Purity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Dan Dervin
A Latina Immigrant’s Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Ruth M. Lijtmaer
A Response from Finland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Virva Liski
Recurring Nightmares and Twilight Sleep. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Frann Michel
Elovitz’ Response to the “Awakening” Symposium Commentaries. . . . . . . . . . 22
The Psychology and History of Sexual Violation and Its Condemnation
Special Issue
They’re Mad as Hell… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Tom Ferraro
Can We Talk Here? A Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Rachel Worrell & Susan Gregory
Adam and Eve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Peter W. Petschauer
MeetTwo: Psychoanalytic Encounters with the Hashtag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Manya Steinkoler
“Carried Away by a Fantasy of Such Pure Ego”: “Cat Person” and Consent. . . 37
Erica D. Galioto
Matilda Joslyn Gage on Christianity’s Role in the Suppression of Women. . . . 44
Mark I. West
The #MeToo Movement, the Repression of Rape, and Otto Gross . . . . . . . . . . .47
Philip Højme
Power in Sport: Social and Gendered Contexts of Harassment and Assault. . . . 50
Stephen Alomes
Where Is the Foul in the Sexualization/Commodification of Women?. . . . . . . . 55
Joseph Baumstarck Jr.
Sexual Abuse in Sport and Ethical Dilemmas for the Sport Psychologist. . . . . .58
Kimberly Wernerspach & Sandra S. Lee
Organizational Dynamics in Failed Mitigation of Sexual Violation. . . . . . . . . . 63
John Heil
Boundary Violators: Three Women Therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Brenda Solomon
Treating Sexual Offenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ….. . . . . . . 76
Neil Wilson
Whose Dissociation Following Sexual Harassment?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Joyce M. Rosenberg
Men Killing Women. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Ken Fuchsman
Interview
Todd Schultz: Psychobiographer of Creative Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Paul H. Elovitz
Film & Book Reviews
In My Brothers’ Shadows: A Review of the Film Chappaquiddick . . . . . . . . . .97
Joseph G. Ponterotto & Ingrid Grieger
The Amazing Life of Joel Kovel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Gilda Graff
Digital Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
John Jacob Hartman
The Influence of Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology. . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
John Jacob Hartman
The Importance of The Making of Psychohistory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Peter W. Petschauer
Excerpts from The Making of Psychohistory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Paul H. Elovitz
Poetry
Cloud Chambers and Geiger Counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Howard Stein
A Day in the Life of Peter Petschauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Howard Stein
Cloud Scraper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Peter W. Petschauer
Letter to the Editor: False Memory Inquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Candace Orcutt
Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Call for Papers by Clio’s Psyche. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119, 127, 129
Call for Papers by Journal of Psychohistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Spring 2018 Volume 24 Number 3
The Psychohistory of Dependency and Autonomy Symposium
The Psychology of Dependence and Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Marilyn Charles
Charles Misses the Middle Ground. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
C. Fred Alford
Navigating between Opposite Extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Herbert Barry III
Autonomy and Interrelatedness through the Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Donna Crawley
Reflections on the Psychology of Dependence and Independence. . . . . . . . . . .273
Jay Einhorn
Family, Self-Regulation, and Autonomy in the Contemporary United States. .277
Ken Fuchsman
Promoting Interdependence in the Intellectually Disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Christine Jensen
Dependence, Independence, and American Politics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Paul Salstrom
Marilyn Charles Analyzes and Expands on the Commentaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Reflections on Dependency in the Life Cycle, History, and Society . . . . . . . . 293
Paul H. Elovitz
Interview
Marilyn Charles: Featured Clinician and Scholar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301
Paul H. Elovitz
Additional Articles
Reflections on Spielberg’s The Post and Comparing Nixon and Trump . . . . . 315
Ken Fuchsman
Reading and Teaching Citizen: An American Lyric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321
Gail M. Newman
On White Racism: The Dehumanization of People of Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328
Burton N. Seitler
The False Memory Inquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332
Candace Orcutt
Infant Depravity in Children’s Literature in Puritan America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Mark I. West
The Jailing and Disillusionment of “Red” Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346
Paul H. Elovitz
Book Reviews
The Effects of the Holocaust on Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Ira Brenner
The Value of Psychoanalytically Trained Consultants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .358
Peter Petschauer
The Costs of World War II to German Soldiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362
Jacques Szaluta
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Logos for the Psychohistory Forum and Clio’s Psyche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .366
Letters to the Editor
Freud’s Death Instinct Applied to Hitler’s Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .367
Dorothea Leicher
No More Hand Holding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .367
Jessica Mara
Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369, 370, 371