Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Children and Childhood Special Theme Issue

Some possible approaches include:

• Changing Childhood
• What Is It Like to Grow Up in the Modern World?
• Growing Up With a Single Parent, With an Immigrant Parent, As a Refugee
• The Effects of Television or Video Games on Children
• Why American Students See High School as a Type of Prison
• Sonograms as a Prelude to Female Feticide (China, India, America, etc.)
• The Effects of Custody Disputes
• Children of Divorce
• Children in the Courts
• Children and Childhood Through the Ages
• Are Children Better or Worse Off in the Modern World?
• Cross-Cultural Childhood Comparisons

500-1500 words, due April 15

Contact: Paul Elovitz, PhD, Editor

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Call for Papers

Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience Special Theme Issue

Some possible approaches include:

• Personal Accounts by Ministers, Priests, Rabbis, Members of Religious Orders, and Scholars of Religion on How Your Perspectives Have Been Changed by Psychoanalysis
• Reconsidering Classic Thinkers Such as Freud and Weston LeBarre
• Interviews with or Profiles of William W. Meissner, Ana-Maria Rizzuto, or Edward P. Shafranske
• Therapists as Secular Priests
• Spirituality’s Role in Clinical Practice
• Religious Development in Childhood
• Using Object Relations Theory to Understand Religion
• Psychoanalytic Approaches to Martyrs and Saints
• Religious Dreams and the Use of Dreams by Religious Leaders
• Theophonies in the Modern World
• America’s Religious Identity Today
• When Politics and Religion Mix: The Christian Right
• Terror in the Name of God (e.g., anti-abortionism, jihad)
• Psychobiographic Sketches of Modern Preachers, Prophets, Messiahs (e.g., Robertson, Farrakhan, Koresh)
• Cults and Anti-cult Movements
• Psychogeography of Religion
• Resiliency of Religion Despite Scientific Advances and Technological Transformations
• Religion on Radio and Television and in Cyberspace

500-1500 words, due June 15

Contact: Bob Lentz, Associate Editor

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