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The next Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Saturday Seminar will be on February 4, 2006 when Jean Hantman (private practice-Philadelphia) and Donald Carveth (York University and private practice) will present on “Marriage At-A-Distance.” Subsequent 2006 presentations will include David Lotto on “Vengeance,” Eli Sagan on “The Need for a Secular Sacred Response to Fundamentalism,” and Peter Petschauer et al, “The Search for the Father and Other Explorations in Autobiography” on September 30, 2006. We also hope to finalize plans for a session on suicide and on suicidal terrorism.

CONFERENCES: There is still an open call for papers from the IPA and ISPP: the June 7-9, 2005 International Psychohistory Association meetings will be at Fordham Law School and the International Society for Political Society meetings will be on July 12-16, 2006 in Barcelona.

NOTES ON COLLEAGUES: Maria Miliora retired earlier this year from her professorship at Suffolk University and her private practice of psychoanalysis to recuperate from brain surgery and devote full time to her research and writing. We wish her well and congratulate her on the 2004 publication of The Scorsese Psyche on Screen: Roots of Themes and Characters in the Film (McFarland). Her next book, America’s Old West in Fact and in the Movies, is half completed. Ruth Dale Meyer presented “Clio’s Circle: Historians

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Who Dare to Embrace the Unconscious” in the October 15, 2005 Santa Barbara conference, “When History Wakes: Cultural and Ecological Memory. Montague Ullman gave a November 10, 2005 seminar, “Dreaming as a Natural Healing System,” in Manhattan. On October 10^th, Joseph Held was honored by the Hungarian Academy of Science. Glen Jeansonne is completing the 600-page manuscript for A Time of Paradox: America Since 1890, to be published by Rowman and Littlefield early in 2006. He is also writing Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker. To devote himself to creating art, Joe Illick retired from San Francisco State University. Margo Kren spent five months in China earlier this year. Jerry Piven has taken a position in the Philosophy Department at Case Western Reserve University.

DEATHS: The sad news has come to our attention that Elizabeth Wirth Marvick died of natural causes on the night of April 18^th. Betty Glad is writing an obituary and reminiscences are welcome.

WELCOME: to new member Lee Solomen.

OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry and Ralph Colp; Patrons David Beisel, Andrew Brink, Mary Lambert, Peter Loewenberg, David Lotto, and Shirley Stewart; Sustaining Member Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Rudolph Binion, Paul Elovitz, David Felix, Jacqueline Paulson, Edryce Reynolds, and the Shneidmans; and Members Michael Britton, Charles Gouaux, Michael Isaacs, Maria Miliora, Margery Quackenbush, and Roberta Rubin. Our appreciation to Forum hosts Mary Lambert and Connie and Lee Schniedman. Our thanks for thought provoking materials to Dick Booth, Daniel Burston, Don Carveth, Mark Fisher, Ken Fuchsman, Ted Goertzel, Frank Haney, Judith Harris, Marshall Harth, Glen Jeansonne, Danielle Knafo, Peter Loewenberg, David Luhrssen, Ruth Dale Meyer, Robert Pois, Leah Slivko, Evelyn Sommers, Jacques Szaluta, Ellen Toronto, Kari Vander Weit, and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Our thanks to David Beisel and Dick Booth for selective editing, Nancy Dobosiewicz for proofing/Publisher 2003 software application, Tom Ossa for proofing/web design/computer instruction, and to Theresa Graziano, Laura Greene, and Kari Vander Weit for proofing. We wish to thank our numerous referees, who must remain anonymous.

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