The Making of Psychohistory: Origins, Controversies, and Pioneering Contributors by Dr. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD (2018) – follow the link to order from the publisher (ISBN # 978-1-138-58749-6, use FLR40 code to get a 20% discount).
Read Excerpts from Ch. 1 and Ch. 2 and Table of Contents from The Making of Psychohistory.
Volume 3 Number 4March 1997
ISSN 1080-2622
Editorial Board
David Beisel, PhD RCC-SUNY • Rudolph Binion, PhD Brandeis University • Andrew Brink, PhD Formerly of McMaster University and The University of Toronto • Ralph Colp, MD Columbia University- Retired • Joseph Dowling, PhD Lehigh University • Glen Jeansonne, PhD University of Wisconsin • George Kren, PhD Kansas State University • Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA • Peter Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University • Leon Rappoport, PhD Kansas State University
IMMIGRANT PSYCHOLOGY ISSUE: PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FORTHCOMING FORUM-SPONSORED BOOK
- Marlin, O. (1997). An emigrant’s journey between Europe and America. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 97-100. https://doi.org/10.70763/4ddb5b8d603f88e9de689f3230234b47
- Kahn, C. (1997). The sadness of emigration without leaving home. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 100-104. https://doi.org/10.70763/2ea1202aed1e0ce30d41be4919b0cc99
- Elovitz, P. H. (1997). My motivation: Patterns and secrets of an immigrant family. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 104-109. https://doi.org/10.70763/d1ff1ec86b62cd5f3903ff19c3a326b2
- Simms, N. (1997). Immigrants and the mother tongue. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 109-110. https://doi.org/10.70763/ad554d8c3b06d6b97ee76a2448bd7913
MISCELLANIOUS ARTICLES
- Hogman, F. (1997). A hidden child’s response to Goldhagen. [Review of the book Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jay Goldhagen (1996)]. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 110-112. https://doi.org/10.70763/ad067202f83b4b1483f05bf382c22c1e
- Elovitz, P. H. (1997). Free associations. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 112-116. https://doi.org/10.70763/59587bffec1c7846f3e34230141556ae
- Caulfield, M. A. (1997). The journeys of life and death. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 116-117. https://doi.org/10.70763/32fcc8cfe1fa4c77b5c58dafd36d1a98
- Rogers, H. J. (1997). Clinton’s pattern of success and failure. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 117-119. https://doi.org/10.70763/e987eff4a7c7b7e580d659feb6f60c1a
- Lotto, D. (1997). Psychohistorical enactments. [Review of the book Enactments: American Modes and Psychohistorical Models by Daniel Dervin (1996)]. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 119-120. https://doi.org/10.70763/9823c9091899dc6f227f9133ba2dfd30
- Elovitz, P. H. (1997). A conversation with Charles B. Strozier [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 97, 120-126. https://doi.org/10.70763/f29e2360ef277f77595dfae0aab78138
- Rogers, H. J. (1997). Response to “The Unabomber.” Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 126-127. https://doi.org/10.70763/7790583c0d8d74e930a4441ad75ebc64
- Elovitz, P. H. (1997). Paul Elovitz responds. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 127. https://doi.org/10.70763/1e8a19426224ca89e83cef47f1e7f53b
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Barry, H. III. (1997). Clinton’s paternally partisan presidency [Letter to the editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 127-128. https://doi.org/10.70763/228e338fddcdf62a8065110d0b5f87fb
MEETING REPORTS
- Goertzel, T. (1997). Loss and achievement [Meeting Report]. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 128. https://doi.org/10.70763/602443a3d6907117d8b4a308844e963e
- Elovitz, P. H. (1997). Men’s fear of women [Meeting Report]. Clio’s Psyche, 3(4), 129. https://doi.org/10.70763/b7ab1aac36b6428d3b7a3860a0d7a74f
BULLETIN BOARD
FORTHCOMING PSYCHOHISTORY FORUM PRESENTATIONS: On Saturday, March 8, the Forum will formally launch its research project on the Makers of the Psychosocial Paradigm with Paul Elovitz (Ramapo College) as the presenter. On Saturday, April 12, David Redles of the University of Texas at San Antonio is tentatively scheduled to present on “Hitler and the Apocalypse Complex: Perceptions of Chaos and the Reconstruction of Order.” On Saturday, May 3, we have scheduled “Oedipus and the Fathers: A Workshop on the Autobiographies of Psychohistorians.” Charles Strozier (CUNY Graduate Center), Lee Shneidman (Adelphi), Ralph Colp (Columbia), and Paul Elovitz (Ramapo College) will be presenters. Our tentative fall schedule is September 20, Stanley Renshon (CUNY Graduate Center and Political Psychology) on the psychological assessment of Presidents and Presidential candidates, and November 8, Michael Flynn (Center on Violence and Human Survival) on “Apocalyptic Hope, Apocalyptic Thinking.”
NOTICES: Mary Lambert, a New York psychoanalyst, and Ted Goertzel, a Rutgers sociologist, have joined the Forum’s Program Committee to which Ralph Colp is serving as a consultant. The Psychohistory Review and Clio’s Psyche have agreed to print notices of each other’s publications.
NEWS OF RESEARCH GROUPS: The Communism: The Dream That Failed researchers met on February 7 and are scheduled to meet next on March 29 to discuss Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.
PSYCHOHISTORICAL CONFERENCES: Psychohistorians Peter Loewenberg and Peter Gay will be among the distinguished presenters at the March 15 all day conference (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) sponsored by the New York Psychoanalytic Association at the New York Academy of Medicine. The meeting title is “Psychoanalysis and Culture: What Does Psychoanalysis as a Theory Contribute to the Understanding of Culture? What Impact Does Culture Have on the Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thought?” The IPA (International Psychohistorical Association) has a full program planned for its June 4-6 20th Annual Convention. For information, write Henry Lawton at 266 Monroe Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481 or e-mail him at <>. The Group for the Use of Psychology in History (GUPH) had a good winter meeting at the AHA (American Historical Associations) annual meeting in New York. The revival of these yearly psychohistorical meetings in a fairly conservative organization is a most promising sign.
TRAVEL: Lee and Conalee Shneidman recently visited Nepal and India.
AWARDS: Peter Petschauer was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award by Appalachian University’s graduate school. He is one of a number of Forum members who have had their pedagogical excellence noted and rewarded. Peter is continuing as Chair of the University of North Carolina’s system-wide Faculty Assembly. Last summer he spent two weeks teaching, along with his wife Joni, in the Czech Republic. Among his many projects is a chapter he is writing with a colleague from Ossetia, Russia.
PUBLICATIONS: Congratulations to Montague Ullman on the publication of Appreciating Dreams: A Group Approach (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996). Ullman’s next Experiential Dream Group Leadership Training Workshop will be June 28-30 in Ardsley, New York. Biographers should speak to Don Hughes (University of Denver) or Paul Elovitz about its historical application. This month Praeger is releasing Peter Petschauer’s Human Space, a tiny portion of which was published in these pages (September, 1995). Jay Gonen of Chicago, a psychologist, is very much at work on his book on Hitler and Nazi Germany.
WELCOME to new member, George Victor, who just sent a book on Hitler off to the publisher. He is looking forward to presenting to the Work-in-Progress Seminars on the causes and effects of Hitler’s masochism after he becomes more familiar with our organization. Among our new subscribers is Terence Ripmaster, recently retired from William Paterson College and currently of the New Jersey Jazz Society. Terry, who wrote his doctoral dissertation at NYU on psychohistorical methodologies, is living on a large farm in a beautiful section of northwestern New Jersey.
RETIREMENTS: Some of our colleagues retire from institutional jobs to devote themselves to other important aspects of life. For example, Mary Coleman and Jay Gonen have retired to write books. B.K. Ramanujam, of Bakersfield California, just left his position in psychiatry at the veterans’ hospital to face new challenges and we wish him well.
OUR THANKS to our members and friends for their support which makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To a member of the Board of Trustees for a $200 gift. To Benefactors Herbert Barry and Ralph Colp; Supporting Member Hanna Turken; and Contributing Members Joyce Berkman, Melvin Kalfus, and Jerome Wolf. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Herbert Barry, Marie Caulfield, Ted Goertzel, Flora Hogman, Charlotte Kahn, David Lotto, Olga Marlin, H. John Rogers, Gary Schmidt, Norman Simms, and Charles Strozier. These authors wrote or revised their articles in the Czech Republic, Israel, New Zealand, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, West Virginia, New York City and Pittsburgh. Thanks to Kellie King and Michele O’Donnell for proofreading, and to Anna Lentz and Gary Schmidt for their assistance in producing this periodical.
