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).
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Volume 6 Number 4March 2000
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
THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOHISTORY
- Elovitz, P. H. (2000). The partial success and bright prospects of psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 133-138. https://doi.org/10.70763/5905aa3361a00b7d9356fa6cf222396d
- Binion, R. (2000). Psychohistory’s false start. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 133, 138-139. https://doi.org/10.70763/6a130f1dc6f0c829f874e92e5458dced
- Scheff, T. J. (2000). Freud’s understanding of repression [Review of the book Freudian Repression: Conversation Creating the Unconscious by Michael Billig (1999)]. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 139-142. https://doi.org/10.70763/e9de722f5fee30a9bb44216eaa70ae09
- Klenbort, D. (2000). The civilizing process and long-term historical change. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 142-143. https://doi.org/10.70763/7a2b33c672ce223b2aa5789171ddde2f
- Clarke, S. (2000). A psychosocial approach to racism and ethnic hatred. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 143-144. https://doi.org/10.70763/f4f1f13c8289ac1b1ee0ff176b56fc60
- Piven, J. S. (2000). Fathoming the weirdness of history. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 144-146. https://doi.org/10.70763/21e8cadba9839cd22bc29597866632e3
- Simonton, D. K. (2000). Psychohistory from a historiometric perspective. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 146-148. https://doi.org/10.70763/475cc020a2dc98e1bd061ddfdf162fdc
- Kalfus, M. (2000). Keeping the psychohistorical flame burning. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 148-150. https://doi.org/10.70763/96f0a190986ed55124c246fd4c7e412f
- deMause, L. (2000). The electronic future of psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 150-151. https://doi.org/10.70763/3d0236a18121ec86eff612e3b26bf7b9
- Lawton, H. (2000). Reflections on the future of psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 151-152. https://doi.org/10.70763/4b2ae7d938d2edc52ee760535f0003e2
- Dietrich, A. (2000). What brought me to psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 152-153. https://doi.org/10.70763/64697505ab8add3aa07f761321d06014
- Lee, D. D. (2000). Twenty-first-century psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 153-154. https://doi.org/10.70763/16105fb9cc614fc29e1bda00dab60d41
- Rosenberg, V. (2000). Empathy, Kohut, and intellectual history. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 154-156. https://doi.org/10.70763/054ab897023645cd7ad69525c46992a0
- Stein, H. F. (2000). Resistance and reconciliation: Some personal thoughts on psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 156-159. https://doi.org/10.70763/b7c13b0a474277d7f6c6d6ba8a0ed678
- Dervin, D. (2000). Psychohistory 2000 and beyond. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 160. https://doi.org/10.70763/1e44fdf9c44d7328fecc02d677ed704d
- Ihanus, J. (2000). Interdisciplinary futures. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 161-162. https://doi.org/10.70763/161c5c5ad51fcc884157890511b3c8b0
- Petschauer, P. W. (2000). Howard Stein: An intellectual odyssey [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 162-172. https://doi.org/10.70763/760abe2f7ea403a5c8ac329f72e4d42e
- Stein, H. F. (2000). Holocaust poems [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 172. https://doi.org/10.70763/2c29d89cc56cdb191c60db2f0bae796b
- Simms, N. (2000). Holocaust denial in New Zealand. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 173-174. https://doi.org/10.70763/a3c36d0c741ddabbdb44b35a4fbebcb4
- Victor, G. (2000). Playing God: Churchill and Coventry, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 175-177. https://doi.org/10.70763/a45a1d12ee0fb7f1f872ab91da18f899
- Rousselle, R. J. (2000). Dreams of infanticide I: Dancing for Dionysus. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 177-178. https://doi.org/10.70763/cf98f1617165bf975b4dd57ab90269cf
- Petschauer, P. W. (2000). The virtual reality of the web landscape. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 178-181. https://doi.org/10.70763/4493f5351e66c44bc87515f72d07aec2
- Dervin, D. (2000). The family origins of creativity [Review of the book The Creative Matrix: Anxiety and the Origin of Creativity by Andrew Brink (2000)]. Clio’s Psyche, 6(4), 181-183. https://doi.org/10.70763/e698959e9b93e4de823526327ffed84a
BULLETIN BOARD
The next SATURDAY WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOP is scheduled for March 4, 2000, when Jacques Szaluta (U.S. Maritime Academy) with Richard Harrison (New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training) will present “Steven Spielberg’s Creativity and Connection to the American Unconscious.” As soon as possible, we will send the paper for the April meeting. In the fall, we will have our usual Presidential election year psychobiographical presentations on the victorious Democratic, Independent, and Republican party candidates who will face each other in November.
CONFERENCES: Last December 7, George Victor participated in a Washington colloquium on Pearl Harbor sponsored by the Naval Historical Association.
POSITIONS: Paul Ziolo has moved from Warsaw to teach at Liverpool University.
TRAVEL: Jay Gonen and Mary Coleman welcomed in the new millennium in Paris. Lee and Conalee Shneidman visited the historic sites of Egypt, and, as usual, Jerry Kroth is spending the winter in Mexico. Norman Simms is spending the spring semester at the Sorbonne.
CORRECTION: Judith Hughes has pointed out that Charles Evans Hughes was Chief Justice of the United States rather than of the Supreme Court as was incorrectly stated in the obituary of H. Stuart Hughes in our last issue.
AWARDS: Congratulations to Vivian Rosenberg of Drexel University on the award of a sabbatical to research on empathy. Anne Dietrich recently had a two-month competitive research fellowship in Tallahassee, Florida. The Robert J. Stoller Foundation announces its annual $1000 essay prizes, one pre-doctoral, one post-doctoral, for essays on psychoanalytically informed research in the biobehavioral sciences, social sciences, or humanities. The essays should be of publishable quality, 25 pages in length, and not yet accepted for publication. Send three copies of each essay to Maimon Leavitt, M.D., President, Robert J. Stoller Foundation, 210 Woodruff Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024. The deadline is June 30 and the award is announced on or before August 1, 2000. See <www.stoller-foundation.org>.
WEB SITES: Free Association Books’ Web site includes a chapter of each new book it publishes. See, for example, Evelyn Heinemann, Witches: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Killing of Women. Click “New Books” at <www.fa-b.com>. Histsex is an e-mail list for historians of sexuality, found at <http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah/listinf.htm> or by blank e-mail to <>.
NEW MEMBERS (Research Associates): Welcome to Laurie Adams, and to Anie Kalayjian of Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry and Ralph Colp; Patrons Andrew Brink, Peter Petschauer, H. John Rogers, and Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Anonymous, Rudolph Binion, and Hanna Turken; and Members: Eva Fogelman, Florian Galler, Michael Hirohama, Richard Morrock, Geraldine Pauling, and Nannette Sachs. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Rudolph Binion, Simon Clarke, Lloyd deMause, Dan Dervin, Anne Dietrich, Juhani Ihanus, Melvin Kalfus, Daniel Klenbort, Henry Lawton, David Lee, Peter Loewenberg, Peter Petschauer, Jerry Piven, Vivian Rosenberg, Robert Rousselle, Dean Keith Simonton, Thomas Scheff, Norman Simms, Howard Stein, Charles Strozier, and George Victor. Thanks to Jon Battaglia for computer help and to Anna Lentz and Brett Lobbato for proofreading.
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Call for Papers
Clio’s Psyche of the Psychohistory Forum
Call for Papers
- Violence in American Life and Mass Murder as Disguised Suicide
- The Future of Psychoanalysis in the Third Millennium (June, 2000)
- Assessing Apocalypticism and Millennialism Around the Year 2000
- PsychoGeography
- Election 2000: Psychobiographies of Bradley, Bush, Gore, McCain, Buchanan, et al
- The Psychology of Incarceration and Crime
- Legalizing Life: Our Litigious Society
- Psychobiography
- Manias and Depressions in Economics and Society
- The Role of the Participant Observer in Psychohistory
- Psychohistorical Perspectives on Loneliness
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a Model for Healing
- The Processes of Peacemaking and Peacekeeping
- The Psychology of America as the World’s Policeman
- Entertainment News
- Elian Gonzales Between Two Worlds
- Television, Radio, and Media as Object Relations in a Lonely World
- Kevorkian’s Fascination with Assisted Suicide, Death, Dying, and Martyrdom
- The Psychobiography and Myth of Alan Greenspan: The Atlas Who Has Not Yet Shrugged
Many of these subjects will become special issues. Articles should be from 600-1500 words with a biography of the author. Electronic submissions are welcome on these and other topics. For details, contact Paul H. Elvoitz, PhD, at or (201) 891-7486.
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Call for CORST Grant Applications
The Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST) of the American Psychoanalytic Association announces an American Psychoanalytic Foundation research training grant of $10,000 for CORST candidates (academic scholars) who have been accepted or are currently in training in an American Psychoanalytic Association institute. The purpose of the grant is to help defray the costs of psychoanalytic training. The grant is to be administered by the local institute to be paid over three years of training at $3,500, $3,500, and $3,000 per year, or as needed.
The application is: a.) A brief statement of 1000 words of the research proposed, b.) A letter from a scholar in the field (e.g., department chair, colleague, or dissertation advisor) attesting to the validity and significance of the research, c.) A letter of endorsement by the Education Director of the institute certifying the candidate is in, or has been accepted for, full clinical psychoanalytic training at an institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and d.) An up-to-date Curriculum Vitae.
Applications are to be submitted in three copies by May 1, 2000, to Professor Paul Schwaber, 258 Bradley Street, New Haven, CT 06511.
The application is: a.) A brief statement of 1000 words of the research proposed, b.) A letter from a scholar in the field (e.g., department chair, colleague, or dissertation advisor) attesting to the validity and significance of the research, c.) A letter of endorsement by the Education Director of the institute certifying the candidate is in, or has been accepted for, full clinical psychoanalytic training at an institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and d.) An up-to-date Curriculum Vitae.
Applications are to be submitted in three copies by May 1, 2000, to Professor Paul Schwaber, 258 Bradley Street, New Haven, CT 06511.
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