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Volume 16 - Number 2 - September 2009,
Pages: 107 - 219
Section: THE VALUE OF PSYCHOHISTORY
Elovitz, P. H. (2009). How will you use psychohistory? Clio’s Psyche, 16(2), 201-203. https://doi.org/10.70763/e84401ad27c4cfb9815776eb9432ff17
How Will You Use Psychohistory? (article)
Keywords: David Beisel, Denis O’Keefe, Evan Brown, International Psychohistorical Association (IPhA), Matt Heitman, Nancy Kobrin, psychohistory, psychotherapy, Ravi Gurumurthy
Individuals derive different benefits from psychohistory. Denis O’Keefe was an accounting major at SUNY-Rockland when he was inspired by David Beisel’s psychohistory courses to turn to psychological knowledge and human services. Today he is a psychotherapist in private practice beginning his doctoral dissertation and delivering yearly
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annual professional presentations to the International Psychohistorical Association (IPA).
Nancy Kobrin was a psychoanalyst in private practice in Minneapolis who was moved by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to research and publish on the subject in Clio’s Psyche before writing a book on the psychology of terrorism. In the summer of 2009 she gave up her therapy practice to train with the U.S. Army in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for four to six months prior to being assigned to Afghanistan as a private contractor using her unique psychological and linguistic skills.
Evan Brown, Ravi Gurumurthy, and Matt Heitman are three Ramapo College students who decided to do a psychological independent study on the first 100 days of Barack Obama’s presidency. This led them to present on a special student panel of the IPA’s 2009 meetings at the Fordham University Law School in Manhattan, leading them to win an award with a monetary stipend. The paper they wrote on the subject is currently being anonymously refereed for publication, along with articles by professors from a dozen major universities.
How you will use the knowledge in these pages and in our field is a choice you must make. You can integrate it into your general knowledge, adding a valuable perspective. You can become a psychohistorical scholar and teacher—researching, teaching, and writing. If you are entering business you can use psychological insight to help you achieve success, as has been the case with a number of individuals who also made significant contributions to psychohistory. Perhaps you would like to become a popularizer for the subject, bringing our unique and valuable knowledge to the general public, just as Rachel Carson (1907-1964) popularized the global environmental movement and Carl Sagan (1934-1996) popularized astronomy and astrophysics.
How you will use psychohistorical knowledge is up
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to you. Why not consider using it to open new perspectives on the world around you and the people in it, and finding a role in a valuable movement?
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Authors:
Paul H. Elovitz
Joan Wynn is a Research Fellow at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, an applied policy research center. She is currently on leave to pursue her interests in photography and metal constructions.
How to Cite This:
Elovitz, P. H. (2009). How will you use psychohistory? Clio’s Psyche, 16(2), 201-203. https://doi.org/10.70763/e84401ad27c4cfb9815776eb9432ff17PDF downloads:
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