PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY SPECIAL ISSUE

NADER, POLITICAL NIGHTMARES, AND LEADERS’ MORALITY

BULLETIN BOARD

The next WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR: On March 31, 200l, David Lotto (Private Practice and the University of Massachusetts) will present “Freud’s Struggle With Misogyny: An Exploration of Homosexuality and Guilt in the Dream of Irma’s Injection.”

CONFERENCES: The Nürnberg 2001 psychohistory conference is scheduled at the Evangelische Technische Universität and the Deutsche-Amerika Institüt for July 5-7. Herbert Barry recently presented a paper on names in the novels of Charles Dickens at a conference sponsored by the Modern Language Association. Ted Goertzel, Herbert Barry, and Paul Elovitz of the Psychohistory Forum’s Research Group on the Childhood, Personality, and Psychology of Presidents and Presidential Candidates will present a panel at the International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) Convention on June 6-8, 2001, in New York City.

TRAVEL: Lee and Conalee Shneidman recently spent several weeks in Costa Rica and Rudolph Binion has been touring on the West Coast and in Alaska. Peter and Joni Petschauer are spending March 9-19 in Tokyo.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Flora Hogman presented “Hatred and Reconciliation: The German and the Jewish Journeys Following the Holocaust” at the NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations) Committee on Mental Health at the United Nations on Feb 8, 2001. Norman Simms has organized a Waikato University Jewish Studies Seminar on August 16-19, 2001, in Hamilton, New Zealand. The Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress & Genocide and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies are sponsoring a March 9, 2001, workshop for first- and second-generation survivors of the Ottoman Turkish Genocide of the Armenians. For information, contact Anie Kalayjiana at <>.

OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry III, Ralph Colp, and Mary Lambert; Patrons Andrew Brink, Mary Coleman/Jay Gonen, Peter Petschauer, H. John Rogers, and Jacques Szaluta; Sustaining Member Mel Kalfus; Supporting Members Anonymous, Rudolph Binion, and David Felix; and Members C. Fred Alford, Geof-

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frey Cocks, Alan Elms, Ted Goertzel, George Gouaux, Richard Harrison, Flora Hogman, Jacqueline Paulson, and Caroline Scielzo. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Richard Booth, Kelly Bulkeley, Linda Carlson, Mary Coleman, Jay Gonen, Oakley Gordon, Peter Habenczius, Richard Harrison, Aubrey Immelman, Peter Jüngst, Peter Petschauer, Jerry Piven, Gordon Rumson, Andrea Sabbadini, Lee Shneidman, Norman Simms, Dominicus So, Evelyn Sommers, Howard Stein, and Jacques Szaluta. Thanks to Brett Lobbato and Martha Simms for editing.

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Call for Papers

Psychology and Law

Special Theme Issue
June, 2001

Possible approaches:

  •  The diffusion of law into every aspect of life (i.e., “the legalization of life”)
  •  Emotional uses of law (e.g., legal expression of anger, law as intimidation)
  •  Jury psychology
  •  Law as a system of gridlock
  •  Insanity and the law
  •  Dysfunctional family courts
  •  Legal rights of children
  •  The law and individual freedom
  •  Humor in the law and lawyer jokes

500-1500 words, due April 10

Contact: Paul Elovitz,

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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 (full-time academic scholar-teachers) 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. Payments will be made over three years of training in installments of $3500, $3500, and $3000 directly to the candidate.
The application is: a) A brief statement of 1000 words about 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 (3) copies by April 1, 2001, to Professor Paul Schwaber, 258 Bradley Street, New Haven, CT 06511.

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