Elizabeth Wirth Marvick

Elizabeth Wirth Marvick, PhD, is in the process of a book on the Virginia Founders and has recently published “Beyond the Narcissistic Leader: Toward Comparing Psychopolitical Roles” in Mind and Human Interaction, 8, 1997, and “Family Imagery and Revolutionary Spirit: Washington’s Creative Leadership” in Mark J. Rozell, et al, eds., George Washington and the Origins of the American Presidency (2000). She has taught political science at CUNY, the University of Bordeaux, Cal Tech, the American University in Paris, and UCLA, and has served on the councils of the Western Society for French History and the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and on the editorial boards of The Psychohistory Review and Political Psychology. Dr. Marvick is one of the founders and past chair of the Research Committee on Psychopolitics of the International Political Science Association and the author of the psychobiographies, The Young Richelieu: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Leadership (1983) and Louis XIII: The Making of a King (1986). She may be contacted at .