BULLETIN BOARD

BULLETIN BOARD

OUR THANKS to Anna Lentz, Elena Peratikos and Pauline Staines for their assistance in producing this newsletter.

PSYCHOHISTORY FORUM MEETING: Our next regular Saturday meeting is on September 17 when Ted Goertzel (Rutgers), Lloyd deMause (Journal of Psychohistory and Bill Joseph (Shearson Lehman) will discuss political cycles, fantasy analysis and the impact of these factors on the stock market.

NOTES ON MEMBERS: The Forum’s wine and cheese party last fall revealed a zest for food and conversation. Empathy and suffering was the original topic of Joyce Berkman’s paper for our April 23rd meeting, but friendship and empathy were the order of the day when she was reunited with her childhood friend, Vivian Rosenberg. Quite independently of each other, they had been researching empathy at the University of Massachusetts (at Amherst) and at Drexel University. Diane Gross spent part of April using some of her considerable language skills in Russia. In the same month Flora Hogman is reported to have given a moving and brilliant talk on memory and the Holocaust in Dave Beisel’s well-known psychohistory lecture program.

BOOKS: Congratulations to Alex Jasnow who, after years of hard work, has published, Freud and Cezanne: Psychotherapy as Modern Art Al reports he is spending less time doing therapy in New Jersey and more doing art on Cape Cod. We hear that Judith Kestenberg is preparing to co-author another book. In order to spend more time writing, Andrew Brink has left the University of Toronto’s fine Humanities and Psychoanalytic Thought Programme that he built.

CONFERENCES: We are now into the prime season for professional meetings with the International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) on June 8-10 in Manhattan and the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) on July 11-15 in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Paul Elovitz and some other members expect to be at both.

MEMBERSHIP DEATHS: We are saddened to have to pass on the news that Carl Ryant, an oral historian from the University of Kentucky in Louisville and longtime member-at-a-distance, died last December. Our condolences to his family. Last September’s Bulletin of the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society contained a moving tribute to William Niederland who did so much to establish our understanding of survivor’s guilt and psychogeography.

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