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Volume 5 Number 2September 1998
ISSN 1080-2622
Editorial Board
C. Fred Alford, PhD University of Maryland • James W. Anderson, PhD Northwestern University • David Beisel, PhD RCC-SUNY • Rudolph Binion, PhD Brandeis University • Andrew Brink, PhD Formerly of McMaster University and The University of Toronto • Joseph Dowling, PhD Lehigh University • Glen Jeansonne, PhD University of Wisconsin • Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA • Peter Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University • Leon Rappoport, PhD Kansas State University
Articles (15)
PSYCHOHISTORICAL DREAMWORK
- Bulkeley, K. (1998). Introduction. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 41-42. https://doi.org/10.70763/20ba7f85c05c5e5b75abced9ece67ac9
- Ullman, M. (1998). A sociology of dreams? Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 41-43. https://doi.org/10.70763/f7fbc4bafcc80cbf690acbef25f2ce1c
- Rousselle, R. J. (1998). The maternal incest dream of Hippias. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 43-45. https://doi.org/10.70763/5d8c6ee0d8964e66a3225458f981522d
- Hughes, J. D. (1998). Dreams and dream interpretation in the Middle Ages. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 45-48. https://doi.org/10.70763/c9f029a6a1b20a8408f372351b321dd8
- Bakan, D. (1998). Maimonides on visions and dreams. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 48-50. https://doi.org/10.70763/89d3d7800304002cd469f0c402bd3ea0
- Colp, R., Jr. (1998). Trotsky’s dream of Lenin. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 50-54. https://doi.org/10.70763/1f87a3f9a9053ffc7ebfb8b779b010f7
- Bulkeley, K. (1998). A dreamer’s eye view of American politics. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 54-55. https://doi.org/10.70763/d8ad9beba48de682e6accacba8cdbe2d
- Elovitz, P. H. (1998). Editor’s conclusion. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 55-56. https://doi.org/10.70763/9df81829c4ebc9c427b9afe0438dce5a
MISCELLENOUS ARTICLES
- Rogers, H. J. (1998). The Kennedy tapes and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 56-58. https://doi.org/10.70763/e1fe6165cad3f7f3f57d409f78e4415f
BOOK REVIEWS
- Barry, H. III. (1998). Clinton as target of displaced rage [Review of the book The Politics of Denial by Michael A. Milburn and Sheree D. Conrad (1996)]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 58-60. https://doi.org/10.70763/32c47400d002aa2e9608f262414b4aba
- Lawton, H. (1998). Richard Milhous Nixon [Review of the book Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography by Vamık Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, & Andrew W. Dod (1997)]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 60-61. https://doi.org/10.70763/3487596cf54cb393afddaa965714ab1f
- Brink, A. (1998). Analysts on the couch part I: Donald W. Winnicott [Review of the book D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait by Brett Kahr (1996)]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 61-63. https://doi.org/10.70763/ff0abbcc0227c9124a804b084d161a2d
- Strout, C. (1998). Painting William James with a fine pencil [Review of the book Genuine Reality: A Life of William James by Linda Simon (1998)]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 63-65. https://doi.org/10.70763/42d02bd0c73cb27e4ffc7862910ea1f4
- Dufresne, T. (1998). Reflections of David Bakan [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 65-67. https://doi.org/10.70763/1dffefa65e27e7187c6c052be0ae02b0
- Colp, R., Jr. & Hughes, J. D. (1998). Books shaping psychohistorians. Clio’s Psyche, 5(2), 67-68. https://doi.org/10.70763/a0608743660c09feb35a28905143a085
BULLETIN BOARD
Our SATURDAY WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOPS schedule includes Eva Fogelman (CUNY Graduate Center and private practice) on “The Rescuer Self in the Holocaust,” September 19; George Victor (psychologist in private practice and Psychohistory Forum Research Associate), Nobuko Meaders (psychoanalyst in private practice) and others, “From Japanese Mythology to the Origins of World War II, November 7; and Charles Strozier (Center on Violence and Human Survival, CUNY Graduate Center, and private practice) on “Putting the Psychoanalyst on the Couch: A Biography of Heinz Kohut” on January 30, 1999.
CONFERENCES: At the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch Meeting in August, Don Hughes chaired a session on environmentalism, Richard Weiss presented on Alfred Adler, and Paul Elovitz presented “Sulloway’s Flawed Study of Birth Order.” Among the Forum members who presented at the International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) Conference at Fordham Law School in New York City on June 3-5 were Herbert Barry, David Beisel, Brian D’Agostino, Paul Elovitz, Michael Hirohama, and David Lotto. At the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) meeting July 12-15, 1998, in Montreal Herbert Barry, Peter Loewenberg (“The Bauhaus as a Creative Institution”), and Jacques Szaluta were among the presenters. This July, Ramapo College hosted the International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA) conference.
IPA AWARDS: 1998 Committee Chair Paul H. Elovitz announced the following recipients: Roger Lorenz Graduate Student Award to Ruth Dale of England, teacher and graduate student; Evelyn Bauer Award for Women’s Studies to Andrew Brink of Ontario; Casper Schmidt Award for Fantasy Analysis to Kenneth Alan Adams of the University of Alabama; Emilio Bernabei Undergraduate Student Award shared for separate presentations by Laura Burgoyne (Ramapo College) and Richard Kotchmer (RCC of SUNY). Albert Schmidt won a 1998-1999 dissertation fellowship at Brandeis University and David Lee, who is in the final stages of completing his doctoral dissertation for the UCLA History Department, has a four-year fellowship at the Netherlands’ University of Groningen’s Psychology Department.
JOBS: Congratulations to Todd Dufresne on his new position in the Philosophy Department at Lakehead University.
NEW PUBLICATIONS: Another new publication announced, which will do some psychohistory, is Psychoanalytic Studies, Geraldine Shipton, Editor, University of Sheffield, 16 Claremont Crescent, Sheffield S10 2TA, UK.
TRAVEL: Herbert Barry spent much of August at the American
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Psychological Association conference in San Francisco and a second conference in Portland, Oregon, while David Beisel spent two weeks touring Ireland. In July, Rudolph Binion was in Sydney, Australia, addressing a conference, while currently he is a fellow of the Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques in Paris to conduct research on the French introduction of birth control in marriage, 1780-1830. Flora Hogman has been bicycling in France while Don Hughes has traveled to Alaska and to a UNESCO conference in Paris.
GRANT SUPPORT: The Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST) of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APA) announces two new research training grants of $10,000 each for CORST candidates as well as two $5,000 training grants to be matched by local institutes. The purpose of the four grants is to train academics in psychoanalysis. Contact Professor Paul Schwaber, 258 Bradley Street, New Haven, CT 06511.
OUR THANKS: To our members and friends for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry and Ralph Colp; Patron Jerome Wolf; Sustaining Member Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Rudolph Binion and Margaret McLaughlin; and Contributing Members Suzanne Adrion, David Felix, Geraldine Pauling, Lee Shneidman, and Richard Weiss. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to David Bakan, Herbert Barry, Andrew Brink, Kelly Bulkeley, Ralph Colp, Todd Dufresne, Don Hughes, Henry Lawton, John Rogers, Robert Rousselle, Cushing Strout, and Montague Ullman. Thanks to Michele O’Donnell for scanning and to Jeanne Richardson for proofreading.
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Interview with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, the Author of The Making of Psychohistory (conducted by Ken Fuchsman, EdD, week of July 2, 2018) – View it here https://youtu.be/noYaOoC3Lig
