Books

Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach (1969); reprinted four times.

Fantasy and Reality in History (1995).

100 Years of the IPA: Centenary of the International Psychoanalytical Association, 1910-2010 Evolution and Change (2011, with Nellie Thompson as co-editor).

Articles, Chapters in Books, and Interviews

(In addition to the 67 publications originally published in English and listed below, Loewenberg has published 19 articles in German and two in French.)

“Clinical and Historical Perspectives on the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma,” in M. G. Fromm, ed., Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations (2012), pp. 55-68.

“Remembering Victor Wolfenstein,” Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 18, No. 2 (September 2011), pp. 242-245.

“Psychoanalysis as a Creative Therapy,” Chinese Psychotherapy in Dialogue, 2 (2009), pp. 171-173.

“The IPA in China,” International Psychoanalysis: News Magazine of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 17 (December 2008), pp. 18-19.

“Cultural History and Psychoanalysis,” Psychoanalysis and History, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2007), pp. 17-37.

“Remembering Fawn McKay Brodie (1915-1981),” Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 13, No. 1 (June 2006), pp. 1-34. Reprinted.

“Freud as a Cultural Historian,” The American Psychoanalyst, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2006), pp. 25-35.

“The Bauhaus as a Creative Play Space: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, 1919-1933,” The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. XXXIII (2005), pp. 209-226.

“A Correspondence on Teaching Emotion and Politics” (with Mark Fisher), Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 12, No. 3 (December 2005), pp. 113-118.

“Wild Analysis: A New Freud Translation,” Journal of the American Psychoana-

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lytic Association, Vol. 53, No. 3 (2005), pp. 973-979.

“Lucian and Sigmund Freud,” American Imago, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 89-99.

“The Psychology of Creating the Other in National Identity, Ethnic Enmity, and Racism,” in Nancy M. Wingfield, ed., Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe (2003), pp. 243-256.

“Postmodern Psychoanalytic Theory,” Historiography Quarterly 4 (2002), pp. 98-104.

“Aggression in World War I: The Deepest Part of Sigmund Freud’s Self-Analysis,” in Günther Baechler and Andreas Wenger, eds., Conflict and Cooperation: The Individual Between Ideal and Reality (2002), pp. 81-92.

“Freud as a Cultural Subversive,” in Jerome Winer and James W. Anderson, eds., The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 39 (2001), pp. 117-130.

“Legalizing and Advancing Psychoanalytic Academic Research Training,” Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 8, No. 1 (June 2001), pp. 1-31.

“John Muir and the Erotization of Nature,” Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2: 4 (2000), pp. 365-381.

“Violence and Health: Personal, Social, National, Ethnic and Racial Issues,” in Violence and Health (2000), pp. 360-367.

“Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutic Science,” in Peter Brooks and Alex Woloch, eds., Whose Freud: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (2000), pp. 96-115, 130-137.

“A Stoic Death: Sigmund Freud, Max Schur, and Assisted Dying in Contemporary America,” in Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle, eds., Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture (2000), pp. 360-486.

“The Construction of National Identity,” in Nancy Ginsburg and Roy Ginsburg, eds., Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium (1999), pp. 37-63.

“Herzl Between Fantasy and Reality,” in Gideon Shimoni and Robert S. Wistrich, eds., Theodor Herzl (1999), pp. 3-14.

“The Nation at Arms: Concepts of Nationalism and War in Germany, 1866-1914. Comment,” in Hartmut Lehmann and Hermann Wellenreuther, eds., German and American Nationalism in Comparative Perspective (1999), pp. 263-269.

“Review essay of The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi,Vol. 2, 1914-1919,” in Psychoanalytic Books, 9: 3 (1998), pp. 273-280.

“Forward” to Geoffrey Cocks, Treating Mind and Body: Essays in the History of Science, Professions, and Society Under Extreme Conditions (1998), pp. vii-xvii.

“Professional and Personal Insights,” Clio’s Psyche, 4:2 (Sept. 1997), pp. 33-36. “The Pagan Freud,” in Stephen Barker, ed., Excavations and Their Objects: Freud’s Collection of Antiquity (1996), pp. 13-32, 130-134.

“Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology and Object Relations and Their Uses for the

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Historian,” Psychohistory Review: Studies of Motivation in History and Culture, 25: 1 (Fall 1996), pp. 21-46.

“Germany, the Home Front: The Physical and Psychological Consequences of Home Front Hardship,” in Hugh Cecil, ed., Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced (1996), pp. 554-562.

“In California’s Universities Research Psychoanalysts Prove Their Interdisciplinary Mettle,” The American Psychoanalyst, 30:1 (1996), pp. 19-20.

“Psychoanalysis, Sexual Morality, and the Clinical Situation,” in Michael S. Roth, ed., Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche (1994), pp. 61-82.

“The State, National Hatred, and its Transcendence,” Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 1, No. 3 (December, 1994), pp. 4-7.

“Sigmund Freud’s Psycho-Social Identity,” in André Haynal and Ernst Falzeder, eds., 100 Years of Psychoanalysis: Contributions to the History of Psychoanalysis (1994), pp. 135-150.

“The Psychological Reality of Nationalism: Between Community and Fantasy,” Mind and Human Interaction, Vol. 5, No. 1 (February 1994), 6-18. “Psychoanalytic Research Training: A California Success Story,” The American Psychoanalyst, 27: 2 (1993), pp. 11-12.

“The Psychodynamics of Nationalism” History of European Ideas, Vol. 15, No. 1-3 (August 1992), pp. 93-103.

“The Pagan Freud,” in Robert Wistrich, ed., Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century (1992), pp. 124-141.

“Karl Renner and the Politics of Accommodation: Moderation versus Revenge,” Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 22 (1991), pp. 35-56.

“The Uses of Anxiety,” Partisan Review, Vol. 58, No. 3 (1991), pp. 514-525. “Anxiety in History,” Journal of Preventive Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 4: 2-3 (1990), pp. 143-164.

“The Social Psychoanalytic Contributions of Bruno Bettelheim,” Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Bulletin (Fall 1990), pp. 30-32.

“Psychoanalytic Models of History: Freud and After,” in William M. Runyan, ed., Psychology and Historical Interpretation (1988), pp. 126-156.

“The End of Analysis,” Partisan Review, Vol. 55, No. 1 (1988), pp. 82-96.

“An Historical, Biographical, Literary, and Clinical Consideration of Freud’s ‘Analysis Terminable and Interminable’ on its Fiftieth Birthday,” International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 69 (1988), pp. 273-281. Repr. in German.

“Psychodynamics of the Holocaust,” in Yehuda Bauer, ed., Remembering for the Future, Vol. III: The Impact of the Holocaust and Genocide on Jews and Christians (1989), pp. 284-297.

“The Kristallnacht as a Public Degradation in Ritual,” Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 32 (1987), pp. 308-323. Reprinted six times, including in Chinese, English, and German.

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“Historical Method, the Subjectivity of the Researcher, and Psychohistory,” in Rapports, II, XVIe Congres International des Sciences Historiques (1985), pp. 634-640.

“A Creative Epoch in Modern Science: Psychiatry at the Burgholzli, 1902-1912,” American College of Psychoanalysts Newsletter, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 1-2.

“Subjectivity and Empathy as Guides to Progress in Counselling,” Counsellor: Journal of the Institute of Educational & Vocational Guidance in Pakistan, Issue 2-84 (July-December 1984), pp. 31-42.

“Psychohistory,” in Michael Kammen, ed., The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States (1980), pp. 408-432.

“Walter Rathenau and the Tensions of Wilhelmine Society,” in David Bronsen, ed., Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933: The Problematic Symbiosis (1979), pp. 100-127.

“History and Psychoanalysis,” in Benjamin B. Wolman, ed., The International Encyclopedia of Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology (1977), Vol. 5, 363-374. Reprinted in Spanish.

“Psychohistorical Perspectives on Modern German History,” Journal of Modern History, 47: 2 (June 1975), pp. 229-279.

“Why Psychoanalysis Needs the Social Scientist and the Historian,” International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 4: 3 (1977), pp. 305-315.

“Racism and Tolerance in Historical Perspective,” in Peter Orleans and William Russel Ellis, Jr., eds., Race, Change, and Urban Society, Urban Affairs Annual Review, Vol. 5 (1971), pp. 561-576.

“Love and Hate in the Academy,” The Center Magazine, Vol. 5 (September-October 1972), pp. 4-11.

“The Psychodynamics of Campus Confrontations,” Bulletin of the Woodview Hospital, I: 1 (July 1972), pp. 1-12.

“Theodor Herzl: A Psychoanalytic Study in Charismatic Political Leadership,” in Benjamin B. Wolman, ed., The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of History (1971), pp. 150-191. Reprinted.

“The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler,” American Historical Review, 76-3 (June 1971), pp. 612-641.

“Sigmund Freud as a Jew: A Study of Ambivalence and Courage,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, VII: 4 (October 1971), pp. 363-369. Reprinted in Spanish.

“The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort,” American Historical Review, 76: 5 (December 1971), pp. 1457-1502. Reprinted seven times, including in English, Norwegian, Chinese, and Polish.

“The Psychology of Racism,” in G. B. Nash and R. Weiss, eds., The Great Fear: Race in the Mind of America (1970), pp. 186-201. Reprinted.

“Problems of the Academic Research Candidate,” Newsletter of the National Candidates Council, 1: 2 (April 1971), pp. 11-13.

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“A Critique of Arno Mayer’s Internal Causes and Purposes of War in Europe, 1870-1956,” Journal of Modern History, 42: 4 (December 1970), pp. 628-636.

“A Hidden Zionist Theme in Freud’s ‘My Son, the Myops…’ Dream,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 31: 1, pp. 129-132.

“An Interview with Richard Drinnon,” Studies On the Left, II: 1 (Summer 1961), pp. 76-81.

Interviews of Loewenberg

“A Conversation with Peter Loewenberg,” The American Psychoanalyst, 24: 3 (Fall 1990), pp. 8-11.

Bob Lentz, “The Praxis of Peter Loewenberg,” Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 1, No. 2 (September 1994), pp. 5-8.

Joshua Hoffs, “Peter Loewenberg Receives Nevitt Sanford Award,” The American Psychoanalyst, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2010), pp. 23-29.

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Authors:

Caitlin Adams

Caitlin Adams is an English graduate of Penn State University and a paralegal who has assisted in the production of Clio’s Psyche for five years. She may be contacted at .

Paul H. Elovitz

Dr. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, began organizing scholarly meetings when he started as a faculty member at Ramapo College and then as convener of the Institute for Psychohistory Saturday Workshops (1975-1982). In 1982 he founded the Psychohistory Forum to nurture psychohistorical research and continues to lead its Executive Council. In 1994 he created Clio’s Psyche (cliospsyche.org) to publish its scholarship, of which he is Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Elovitz is a historian, psychoanalytic researcher, and author of about 400 publications, covering presidential psychobiography, teaching, documenting the field of psychohistory, and much more. After taking his doctoral degree in history, he trained and practiced as a psychoanalyst, and in 2019 was made the first Research Psychoanalyst by the New Jersey Institute for Psychoanalysis. Elovitz is the author of The Making of Psychohistory, editor of The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory, and edited or wrote eight other books. He is a founding member and past president of the International Psychohistorical Association (1978-) who serves on its leadership council and presents at all meetings. Prof. Elovitz is a founding faculty member at Ramapo College who previously taught at Temple, Rutgers, and Fairleigh Dickinson universities. He may be contacted at .

How to Cite This:

Adams, C., & Elovitz, P. H. (2012). A Loewenberg selected bibliography. In P. H. Elovitz & N. Alliegro (Eds.), Loewenberg’s Life and Accomplishment, A Festschrift. Clio’s Psyche, 19(1), 53-57. https://doi.org/10.70763/04c6906524cd877e833fe26ddaddc62f

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