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Volume 5 Number 4March 1999
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
ACADEMIA, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND PSYCHOHISTORY: 17 AUTHORS EXPLORE THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
- Elovitz, P. H. (1999). The prospects for psychohistory and psychoanalysis. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 117-124. https://doi.org/10.70763/1fdc0ee9d95c71d73df82ac8f0721459
- Hartman, J. J. (1999). My formative experiences in academia and psychoanalysis. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 124-125. https://doi.org/10.70763/885cb47f87718a2cd8641ae79113eeea
- Sloan, T. (1999). A Freudian in middle American academia. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 125-126. https://doi.org/10.70763/1fc30b9d4319760b04fab735fbfed9a9
- Orfanos, S. D. (1999). Psychoanalysis in the American Psychological Association. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 126-128. https://doi.org/10.70763/4a5cfa9281924139db466a8a19291aff
- Breiner, S. J. (1999). What it takes to be a psychoanalyst. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 128. https://doi.org/10.70763/405075699f065e43581f27d67bb68478
- Dervin, D. (1999). Why was Freud so hung-up on sex? Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 128-131. https://doi.org/10.70763/154f596a0e4aec4cf23ee4b76ae3d34a
- Clark, H. (1999). Research as autobiography. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 131-132. https://doi.org/10.70763/d82a1853da4df5edcfc6f0e3159c23be
- Goldberg, J. (1999). Why I left academia: The psychoanalyst as artist. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 132-133. https://doi.org/10.70763/b4edda67f0f57e218a8e766927e3e5c5
- Varney, S. (1999). Impossible knowledge: On teaching psychoanalysis. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 133-134. https://doi.org/10.70763/21f4c3b5591da245af90a2fd52fa1a55
- Simon, L. (1999). Biography and the use of psychoanalysis. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 134-135. https://doi.org/10.70763/c783eed3cfc1c978fe76e15af007e0d0
- Petschauer, P. W. (1999). On the margins of psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 135-136. https://doi.org/10.70763/0801a457294fafbd8fe3116176252636
- Kren, G. (1999). Pioneering psychohistory in Kansas. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 136-137. https://doi.org/10.70763/2e3ae207832305b6a0bff2dbc8a18b90
- Sun, L.-K. (1999). From Erikson to Lacan in Chinese history. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 137-138. https://doi.org/10.70763/e6a4f65e7355bb8b7671c3a18003b146
- Alford, C. F. (1999). A conversation in praise of the subjective [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 138-139. https://doi.org/10.70763/bcb7c13ff9746a60fa8c3e748acd054d
- Baker, L. (1999). An Australian psychohistory group. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 139-141. https://doi.org/10.70763/947018640bf36a2bb609d3557a285329
- Simms, N. (1999). A psychohistorian in New Zealand. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 141-143. https://doi.org/10.70763/9ac1382fd8fc4b631594aa135d16ad75
- Young, R. M. (1999). Psychoanalysis and academia in the United Kingdom. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 143-144. https://doi.org/10.70763/fe74074593f21197b7b7be3c08678616
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Elovitz, P. H. (1999). Special session on understanding the impact of impeachment. (1999). Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 117, 144. https://doi.org/10.70763/b691334ccf10d4ab144d672f7783c8a3
- Immelman, A. (1999). Bill Clinton: The dual character of a president impeached. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 144-147. https://doi.org/10.70763/8617f303dd11780c5d48aedf0bd90823
- Lee, D. D. (1999). An American in Amsterdam: Arthur Mitzman [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 147-151. https://doi.org/10.70763/eeea8c180c5dff16f68a6b7e2606b430
BOOK REVIEWS
- Lotto, D. (1999). Showalter on hysterical diseases [Review of the book Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern by Elaine Showalter (1997)]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 151-153. https://doi.org/10.70763/a87c11b9100c608b7f8e98cfa316ff7b
- Brink, A. (1999). Analyst on the couch: Part III: John Bowlby [Review of the book John Bowlby: His Early Life, A Biographical Journey into the Roots of Attachment Theory by Suzan van Dijken (1998)]. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 153-156. https://doi.org/10.70763/d4cd91e80f36f8f3103617ded9128560
MISCELLENOUS ARTICLES
- Amundson, G. W. (1999). Roots of the Jonesboro schoolyard killings: Envy of the feminine. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 156-158. https://doi.org/10.70763/97ffcbd95363387c7e371563057eb02f
- Simms, N. (1999). Good parenting in the 14th century: Christine de Pisan. Clio’s Psyche, 5(4), 158-160. https://doi.org/10.70763/99503bdd3c5a4c4671ada72d6fd81433
BULLETIN BOARD
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The next SATURDAY WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOPS seminar will be Saturday, March 6, 1999, on “The Impact of Impeaching President Clinton on America and Its Politics.” Participants include Herbert Barry (University of Pittsburgh), Paul Elovitz (Ramapo College), Betty Glad (University of South Carolina), Ted Goertzel (Rutgers), and Aubrey Immelman (St. John’s University). On April 24, the Forum will have the “Judith S. Kestenberg Commemorative Meeting” with a presentation, “Generations of the Holocaust,” on the intergenerational transmission of the trauma of the Holocaust, by Flora Hogman (Psychohistory Forum Research Associate) and commemoration by Eva Fogelman and others.
CONFERENCES AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES: “Encore: The Formation of the American Lacanian Link” is a conference to be held at UCLA, March 5-7, 1999. For information, call (310) 825-9581, fax (310) 206-7617, or e-mail <>. On March 26 to 28, 1999, the 13th Annual Convention of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychohistorische Forschung will be held at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main. For information, write Ralph Frenken, Ginnheimer Landstr. 121, 60431 Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The American Historical Association’s (AHA) Year 2000 Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago, Illinois, January 6 to 9, 2000, with the theme of “History for the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change.” The AHA Web site is <http://www.theaha.org/>. “Literature, Aesthetics, and Psychoanalysis: The Legacy of British Object Relations” is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College Teachers which will be directed by Mary Jacobus, Anderson Professor of English, June 14 to July 24, 1999, at Cornell University. For further information, including application procedures for the NEH awards of $3,700 each for 15 participants, contact <>. Marquette University will host a conference on the “History of Children in 19th- and 20th-Century American Cities” on May 5 & 6, 2000. Papers on the upper Midwest and Milwaukee are particularly welcome. Submit proposals (one page and brief vitae) for complete panels and single papers, as well as offers to comment, by July 1, 1999, to Professor Thomas Jablonsky, Institute for Urban Life, Marquette University, P. O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI, 53201-1881, (414) 288-5300, e-mail <>. Peter Petschauer, <>, is organizing a September conference on childhood at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
PUBLICATIONS: Congratulations to Dan Dervin whose book of short stories, Home Is Another Country, was chosen by Mary Washington College Press to launch its publishing venture in 1998. Congratulations to Charlotte Kahn and the family of the late Judith Kestenberg on the fall, 1998, publication of Children Surviving Persecution.
TRAVEL: Herbert Barry (University of Pittsburgh) was in Santa Fe giving the paper, “The Choice of Spouse by Adolescent or Adult Relatives,” on February 6, 1999, to the Society for Cross-Culture Research of which he is a former president.
AWARDS: Norman Doidge, MD, won the Second Annual CORST Essay Prize presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association at the Waldorf Astoria. His public lecture was “Diagnosing The English Patient: Contributions to Understanding the Schizoid Fantasies of Being Skinless and of Being Buried Alive.”
DEATHS: Our condolences to the family of Judith Kestenberg, a long-time member of the Psychohistory Forum and a distinguished child psychoanalyst and student of the Holocaust, who died in January at the age of 88.
OUR THANKS: To our members and friends for the support which makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry and Ralph Colp; Patron Jerome Wolf; Supporting Members Mary Lambert, Peter Loewenberg, Peter Petschauer, and Hanna Turken; and Contributing Members Charles Fred Alford, Sander Breiner, Alan Elms, Roberta Rubin, and Nanette Sachs. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Charles Fred Alford, Garth Amundson, Lyn Baker, Sander Breiner, Andrew Brink, Hilary Clark, Daniel Dervin, Jonathan Goldberg, John Hartman, Aubrey Immelman, George Kren, David Lee, David Lotto, Arthur Mitzman, Spyros Orfanos, Peter Petschauer, Norman Simms, Linda Simon, Tod Sloan, Lung-kee Sun, Susan Varney, and Robert Maxwell Young. Thanks for proofreading to Jennifer Taylor.
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Hayman Fellowships
The University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium announces two $5,000 annual fellowships to aid psychoanalytically informed research on the literary, cultural, and humanistic expressions of genocide, racism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, inter-ethnic violence, and the Holocaust.
The Endowment supports studies in the psychodynamics of personal, group, and international crisis management, de-escalation, conflict resolution, and peace processes. The fellowships are intended to provide for dissertation research in scholarly resources, archives, libraries, academic contacts, and to provide support for the final writing for publication of a project whose major research has been completed. Applicants should be advanced to candidacy for the doctorate in their graduate studies or be in a psychiatric residency or fellowship program.
Contact: : Hayman Administrator, The Director’s Office, NPI&H, B8-248, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1759.
The Endowment supports studies in the psychodynamics of personal, group, and international crisis management, de-escalation, conflict resolution, and peace processes. The fellowships are intended to provide for dissertation research in scholarly resources, archives, libraries, academic contacts, and to provide support for the final writing for publication of a project whose major research has been completed. Applicants should be advanced to candidacy for the doctorate in their graduate studies or be in a psychiatric residency or fellowship program.
Contact: : Hayman Administrator, The Director’s Office, NPI&H, B8-248, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1759.
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The History of Psychohistory
Clio’s Psyche’s interviews of outstanding psychohistorians (see “An American in Amsterdam: Arthur Mitzman,” page 146) have grown into a full-fledged study of the pioneers and history of our field. Psychohistory as an organized field is less than 25 years old, so most of the innovators are available to tell their stories and give their insights. Last March, the Forum formally launched the Makers of the Psychohistorical Paradigm Research Project to systematically gather material to write the history of psychohistory. We welcome memoirs, letters, and manuscripts as well as volunteers to help with the interviewing. People interested in participating should write, call, or e-mail Paul H. Elovitz (see page 119).
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Next Psychohistory Forum Meeting
Saturday, March 6, 1999
“Understanding the Impact of Impeachment”
- Herbert Barry (University of Pittsburgh)
- Paul Elovitz (Ramapo College)
- Betty Glad (University of South Carolina)
- Ted Goertzel (Rutgers)
- Aubrey Immelman (St. John’s University)
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Call for Nominations
Halpern Award for the Best Psychohistorical Idea in a Book, Article, or Computer Site
This Award may be granted at the level of Distinguished Scholar, Graduate, or Undergraduate.
Contact: the Editor at .
This Award may be granted at the level of Distinguished Scholar, Graduate, or Undergraduate.
Contact: the Editor at .
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Forthcoming in the June Issue
- Interview with a Distinguished Featured Psychohistorian
- “The Insane Author of the Oxford English Dictionary”
- “Jews in Europe After World War II”
- “A Psychohistorian’s Mother and Her Legacy”
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Call for Papers
Special Theme Issues
1999 and 2000
- Our Litigious Society
- PsychoGeography
- Meeting the Millennium
- Manias and Depressions in Economics and Society
- The Psychology of America as the World’s Policeman
- Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
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