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Volume 8 Number 1June 2001
ISSN 1080-2622
Editorial Board
C. Fred Alford, PhD University of Maryland • 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 • 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
PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LAW SPECIAL ISSUE
- Elovitz, P. H. (2001). The legalization of life. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.70763/d19a006fd6d25d23c93d3bf4e48eb25f
- Behnke, S. H., & Saks, E. R. (2001). Psychoanalytic contributions to humanizing the law. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 4-6. https://doi.org/10.70763/21c3134ee5edcb618c4f9aae358d73a7
- Bakan, D. (2001). Choice, compulsion, and the legal system. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.70763/f0282b5ff85e7c9c66200d780bd7e72e
- Campbell, K. (2005). Justice, Freud, and international law. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 7-8. https://doi.org/10.70763/46ba59a6994802347d659680875fb173
- Woody, W. D. (2001). Revenge and punitive damage awards. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 9-11. https://doi.org/10.70763/7c9e9afa5a9dc68ccaf27d9effeb9383
- Victor, G. (2001). Subversion of the law. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 11-14. https://doi.org/10.70763/3dde11a7673e90ad96fafd0b3b27a477
- Sachs, N. P. (2001). Sentencing children to live with abusers. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 14-16. https://doi.org/10.70763/3f8e8bb571cc086ca44e9605ad23ffde
- O’Keefe, D. (2001). Accountability and liability rather than child welfare. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 16-17. https://doi.org/10.70763/46dce5f2f0e61edb70931a00d00a464e
- Potts, D. J. (2001). Judges: Neither politicians nor kings. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 17-19. https://doi.org/10.70763/5c22590152f4f53f3c05cf7cc6aa0b6b
- Rogers, H. J. (2001). In defense of our legal system. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 19-21. https://doi.org/10.70763/8b78af9b5b1ac2745410ef836e697a1c
- Landau, H. I. (2001). The road from lawyer to psychologist. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 21-22. https://doi.org/10.70763/11f38f8ecd71867b42433548d1078e38
- Bloom, L. (2001). Conflicts of a psychotherapist trained in the law. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 22-25. https://doi.org/10.70763/112e9d677c7483747f216a1470bed734
- Loewenberg, P. (2001). Legalizing and advancing psychoanalytic academic research training. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 1, 25-31. https://doi.org/10.70763/9a093d729036a5bd4736e03c5d634501
- Elovitz, P. H. (2001). Eli Sagan: Scholar of aggression and sociologist [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 31-39. https://doi.org/10.70763/cdaeb1282d614772beb1e74c192bebda
BOOK REVIEWS
- Collins, R. (2001). Keynes: The man and the economist [Review of the book. Keynes: A critical life, by David Felix (1999)]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 39-40. https://doi.org/10.70763/efb3d8be0319721ef751da0b05d9f6a5
- Brink, A. (2001). A self-psychological approach to O’Neill [Review of the book Narcissism, the Family, and Madness: A Self-Psychological Study of Eugene O’Neill and His Plays by Maria T. Miliora (2000)]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 41-42. https://doi.org/10.70763/f880d0d6a01ba52fcfe6475defc13e0f
- Barry, H. III. (2001). The sociability and leadership of presidents [Review of the book The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton by Fred I. Greenstein (2000)]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 42-43. https://doi.org/10.70763/76fabdc82dd649afd7efa2d6894e568d
- Rosenberg, V. (2001). Abram de Swaan: Using sociology, history, and psychoanalysis [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(1), 43-47. https://doi.org/10.70763/2475c20d9e9a1aaee80dcbc4e6316157
BULLETIN BOARD
PSYCHOHISTORY FORUM WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINARS: On September 15, 200l, Michael Britton (Psychologist in Private Practice), Paul Felder (Architect), and Carol Freund (Psychotherapist) will present “Freud, Architecture, & Urban Planning.” On November 10, the Forum is planning a panel session of artistic and creative psychoanalysts discussing the nature and process of creativity, in conjunction with the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP).
CONFERENCES: H. John Rogers and Michael Isaacs presented on April 28 in Manhattan at the Psychohistory Forum session, “Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and the Law.” “Psychoanalysis Across The Disciplines,” will be held on November 9-11, 2001, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It is sponsored by the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) and the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. Ralph Colp spent April 26 in Malvera, England, as one of a number of Darwin biographers who wrote on the great naturalist’s grief at the death of his daughter on its 150th anniversary. Colp’s article, “Insufferable Grief,” appeared in Free Associations.
PRESENTATIONS: Ellen Mendel was a keynote speaker at the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis April 28 conference, “Resistance Revisited: Current Trends in Individual and Group Treatment,” held at the Fashion Institute of Technology. On April 19 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lee Shneidman, accompanied by his wife Connalee, presented the paper, “The Morales Affair: Prelude to Disaster,” at the Society of the Study of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
CONGRATULATIONS: Mary Coleman was honored for her work on autism at a conference in Siena Italy. She also gave two lectures on May 1 at Ramapo College with her honorarium being used to set up an Award for the Furtherance of Peace and Nonviolence. Her husband, Jay Gonen, was nominated for a Gradiva Award in Psychohistory by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for his The Roots of Nazi Psychology. J. Donald Hughes on the completion of his book, An Environmental History of the World: Humankind’s Changing Role in the Community of Life, which is scheduled for publication later in the year. The author recently spent a week in Florence at the European University Institute. Jerry Kroth on the publication of Psychology Underground: From Politically Correct Orthodoxies to a New Century of Inquiry. The paperback price is $29.95 and the ISBN is 1788016881. Peter Loewenberg has been named Chair of the Education Committee and Director of the Training School of the Southern California Psychoanalytic
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Institute (SCPI). David Lotto’s Irma’s Dream paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Maria Miliora on her book, Narcissism, the Family, and Madness: A Self-Psychological Study of Eugene O’Neill and His Plays (see review, page 41). Rita Ransohoff’s Fear and Envy: Why Men Have Needed to Control and Dominate Women will be released in paperback on October 1, 2001. Amazon.com’s price is $12.95 and the ISBN is 1891305646. Portions of this book based on cross-cultural research have been presented at Psychohistory Forum meetings.
RESEARCH NOTES: Andrew Brink has been making good progress on his book on colonial New Netherland. He strongly recommends psychologist Bruce K. Alexander on “The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society” which can be found at <www.policyalternatives.ca>. Margo Kren, George Kren’s widow, says she is doing well. She reports that the diaries of Dr. Edmund Bloch, George’s grandfather who treated Hitler’s mother for breast cancer, have been translated into English and are awaiting publication. Our Special Issue on Psychogeography (Vol. 7, No. 4, March, 2001) caught the attention of Marcus Lynch of Psychogeography Publications in Southampton, United Kingdom. Their Web site, <www.psychogeography.co.uk>, indicates that they do not share our concept of psychogeography, but it is interesting to see the dissemination of the term.
TRAVEL: Flora Hogman spent two-and-one-half weeks in May bicycling in Japan and the Beisels are currently vacationing in Tuscany.
RECUPERATION: Our best to Herbert Barry on his recovery from surgery.
CONDOLENCES: To Pam Hughes on the death of her mother.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry III, Andrew Brink, Ralph Colp, and Mary Lambert; Patrons Mary Coleman/Jay Gonen, Peter Petschauer, and H. John Rogers; Sustaining Member Mel Kalfus; Supporting Members David Beisel, Rudolph Binion, John Hartman, Peter Loewenberg, and Jacques Szaluta, and Members Harry Keyishian, Maria Miliora, Richard Morrock, Nannette Sachs, Hanna Turken, and George Victor. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to David Bakan, Herbert Barry III, Stephen H. Behnke, Leonard Bloom, Joy Bossevain, Andrew Brink, Kirsten Campbell, Robert Collins, Harriet I. Landau, Peter Loewenberg, Denis O’Keefe, Dominic J. Potts, H. John Rogers, Vivian Rosenberg, Nannette Sachs, Eli
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Sagan, Elyn R. Saks, Abram de Swaan, George Victor, and William Douglas Woody. To Richard Ranaudo for doing the rough transcription of the interview of Eli Sagan as well as to Rebecca Elwood, Anna Lentz, and Darlenson Roldan for proof-reading.
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Call for Papers
Psychobiography
Special Theme Issue
December, 2001
December, 2001
Some possible approaches include:
- Original psychobiographical sketches
- Reviews / essay reviews of psychobiographies by others
- Interviews of distinguished psychobiographers (e.g., Elms, George, Mack, Solomon, Strouse, Tucker)
- Developments in psychobiography in the last 15 years
- Issues in doing psychobiography:
- personality, pathology, and creativity
- the use of empathy
- evidence and interpretation, reconstruction, and reductionism
- countertransference
- assessing childhood’s influence
- interpreting dreams
- assessing living individuals
- alternative approaches
500-1500 words, due October 10
Contact Bob Lentz, Associate Editor
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Volkan Honored
In honor of the retirement of Vamik Volkan and the work of the Center he created, the University of Virginia Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI) conducted a major conference entitled “Identity, Mourning and Psychopolitical Processes” on May 25-26. The featured presentations and discussions were on the human processes that lead to ethnic tension, conflict resolution, and the healing process. The speakers came from several disciplines—psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology, political science, history, and anthropology—and hail from the U.S and abroad. Peter Loewenberg of UCLA presented “The Psychodynamics of a Creative Institution: The Bauhaus, Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, 1919-1933” and Howard Stein of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, “Mourning and Society: A Study in the History and Philosophy of Science.”
Volkan, who will retire later this year after 38 years on the University of Virginia staff, is currently the director of the CSMHI and a former president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). Volkan founded CSMHI in 1987 as an interdisciplinary center to specialize in conflict resolution and peace work, primarily in Eastern Europe and subsequently the newly independent countries from the former Soviet Union. He has developed theories for caring for severely traumatized populations in the wake of ethnic tension. “At the Center, we study preventive medicine for ethnic issues. In that sense, the Center is very unique,” Volkan said. “When large groups are in conflict, people die, they become refugees, they lose homes and their loved ones, and so they have to mourn. Without mourning, they cannot adjust. Ethnic identity is related to mourning. When people do not mourn, their identity is different.” The Center is on the forefront of studies in large-group dynamics and applies a growing theoretical and field-proven base of knowledge of issues such as ethnic tension, racism, national identity, terrorism, societal trauma, leader-follower relationships and other aspects of national and international conflict.
For further information on Dr. Volkan and the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, visit the Web site, <http://hsc.virginia.edu/csmhi/>;.
Volkan, who will retire later this year after 38 years on the University of Virginia staff, is currently the director of the CSMHI and a former president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). Volkan founded CSMHI in 1987 as an interdisciplinary center to specialize in conflict resolution and peace work, primarily in Eastern Europe and subsequently the newly independent countries from the former Soviet Union. He has developed theories for caring for severely traumatized populations in the wake of ethnic tension. “At the Center, we study preventive medicine for ethnic issues. In that sense, the Center is very unique,” Volkan said. “When large groups are in conflict, people die, they become refugees, they lose homes and their loved ones, and so they have to mourn. Without mourning, they cannot adjust. Ethnic identity is related to mourning. When people do not mourn, their identity is different.” The Center is on the forefront of studies in large-group dynamics and applies a growing theoretical and field-proven base of knowledge of issues such as ethnic tension, racism, national identity, terrorism, societal trauma, leader-follower relationships and other aspects of national and international conflict.
For further information on Dr. Volkan and the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, visit the Web site, <http://hsc.virginia.edu/csmhi/>;.
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