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Volume 8 Number 2September 2001
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
CRIME, PUNISHMENT AND INCARCERATION SPECIAL ISSUE
- Elovitz, P. H. (2001). Fantasies and realities of crime, courts, and prison. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 49-55. https://doi.org/10.70763/de9621d4c6fa69ce8aaa90f00e9110c5
- McCamant, K. J. (2001). In the penal colony: Sadomasochistic dynamics inside the walls. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 55-58. https://doi.org/10.70763/197f76fe309657064dbec74d9eea4be4
- Alford, C. F. (2001). Prisoners: Milgram experiments are about sadism. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 58-59. https://doi.org/10.70763/d785bf9067f8af9e078b93cf26de2b54
- Lieberman, J. D., & Greenberg, J. (2001). The rational irrationality of punishment – A terror management perspective. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 60-62. https://doi.org/10.70763/ba053350fe56ed93e64b3e769062b680
- Vilhena, J., & Zamora, M. H. (2001). Reflections on police violence in Brazil. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 62-63. https://doi.org/10.70763/310614fca8fb8e5491295336298c340f
- Lassiter, G. D. (2001). The psychology of videotaped interrogations and confessions. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 63-65. https://doi.org/10.70763/30c0a496a57bcc2c7c6c481342526729
- Young, J. A. B. (2001). Women victims’ emotion in the courtroom. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 65-66. https://doi.org/10.70763/b04c387c8384ca083a71b8da516f65f6
- Brock, M. (2001). The dangers of invalid “scientific” evidence. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 66-68. https://doi.org/10.70763/598a90004bace6540f0e2230bdc47c09
- Bright, D. A., & Williams, K. D. (2001). When emotion takes control of jury verdicts. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 68-70. https://doi.org/10.70763/761b42cfff120aac30045f7a110d0256
- Stein, H. F. (2001). The execution of Timothy McVeigh: Psychohistorical clues amidst cultural mystification. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 70-74. https://doi.org/10.70763/92ae5cfef57d9ef9a523753e45fc9b0b
- Rogers, H. J. (2001). The prison band. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 74-76. https://doi.org/10.70763/a4d5fad84ee90c1308cc37b52135d5db
- McCamant, K. J. (2001). Comments in response to “The Prison Band.” Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 76-77. https://doi.org/10.70763/3bf07985bf8a5a37fcf65989269e8edc
- Salla, F. (2001). Sexual visitation reduces prison rape in Brazil. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 77. https://doi.org/10.70763/a47072176bca825aadacf648034e124b
- Jacobs, A. (2001). America’s prisons: Corrections or rehabilitation? Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 78-80. https://doi.org/10.70763/2eacc82231f2e62f9acb38bece54635e
- Reynolds, E. (2001). The effects of education on recidivism. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 80-82. https://doi.org/10.70763/26d4b4313a7e5828856bc0791fca39a2
- de St. Aubin, E. (2001). Using the reality of myth to reduce recidivism. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 82-84. https://doi.org/10.70763/08ad21c6f9da6bdf51ae0b971f43d96d
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- McLaughlin, M. (2001). Law in America [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 84-85. https://doi.org/10.70763/ac1ae6a547bf25a11284c7595eff6df7
INTERVIEW
- Lentz, B., & Elovitz, P. H. (2001). A conversation with Charles B. Strozier on Heinz Kohut [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 49, 85-90. https://doi.org/10.70763/fa3060edb66e6ff4507886f9912e1ab9
BOOK REVIEWS
- Miliora, M. T. (2001). Strozier’s Kohut [Review of the book Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Charles B. Strozier (2001)]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 90-93. https://doi.org/10.70763/5bf73bc6c6e6775d472621264309a88b
MEMORIALS
- Brink, A. (2001). The creativity of Anthony Storr (1920-2001) [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 93-97. https://doi.org/10.70763/6aaba9a124857622930ca4e50f5afed2
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Scielzo, C. (2001). Drinking in Russia: One for the soul. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 97-99. https://doi.org/10.70763/a6e4f250fb5c56aaf215a236c64e5b0a
BOOK REVIEWS
- Sherry, J. (2001). In search of butterflies [Review of the book Psychology Underground: From Politically Correct Orthodoxies to a New Century of Inquiry by Jerry Kroth with Marvin Forest (2001)]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 99-101. https://doi.org/10.70763/2d5951d1e3b31dfb7fd2dcc172df17fd
FILM REVIEWS
- Kroth, J. (2001). Keyword for Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial [Review of the film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence directed by Steven Spielberg (2001)]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 101-102. https://doi.org/10.70763/36452e720502e4da486d2f9f6b48a7bb
MEMORIALS
- Elovitz, P. H. (2001). In Memoriam: Chaim F. Shatan (1924-2001) [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 8(2), 102-103. https://doi.org/10.70763/4249a84bdaf63c34332d1988244fb089
BULLETIN BOARD
The next PSYCHOHISTORY FORUM WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR is on September 29, 200l (note the date change) when Michael Britton (Private Practice, Psychotherapy), Paul Felder (Architect), and Carol Freund (Psychotherapist) will present “Freud, Architecture, & Urban Planning.” On or about 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). Details will follow.
CONFERENCES: The annual conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) is on November 2-4, 2001, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Paul Roazen is giving the keynote address and Patrick Kavanaugh is one of the many presenters. See <www.ifpe.org>. The International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) announced the locations and dates of its next two annual meetings as July 16-19, 2002, in Berlin, Germany, and July 6-9, 2003, in Boston, Massachusetts. Next year’s In-
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ternational Psychohistory Association (IPA) meeting is in New York City on June 5-7, 2002.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Congratulations to Jacques Szaluta on giving the Distinguished Academic Lecture, “Spielberg’s Creativity and the American Unconscious,” at the IPA meetings on June 6-8 in New York City. 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 gave separate papers in the panel, “Electoral Deadlock and Ambivalence: The Prospects for the Bush Administration.” Sander Breiner, Lloyd deMause, Dan Dervin, Richard Harrison, Jerry Kroth, Henry Lawton, David Lee, Richard Morrock, Geraldine Pauling, H. John Rogers, Vivian Rosenberg, Robert Rousselle, Norman Simms, and George Victor were other Forum members or Clio’s Psyche subscribers among the IPA presenters. Congratulations to Howard Stein on the recent publication of Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey into Organizational Darkness. His organizational play, Irv, or the Consultant, was performed at the Second International Conference on Critical Management Studies, at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, on July 13. Lawrence Friedman of Indiana University has been named to the Fulbright Distinguished Chair to Germany in American Studies for the academic year 2001-2002. One of his assignments is at Humboldt University in Berlin. Last April on Holocaust Memorial Day, Flora Hogman was the guest of honor who spoke to the New York State Supreme Court on rescuers in the Holocaust. On August 16-19 Norman Simms chaired a program of the Waikato Jewish Studies Seminar at Waikato University in New Zealand.
EMERITUS STATUS: Herbert Barry has been named Professor Emeritus upon retirement after 38 years at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named Professor Emeritus. At the July 15-18 ISPP convention in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Professor Barry presented the paper, “Customs of Communities Where Violence Is Infrequent.” Robert Jay Lifton moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, upon being named Director Emeritus of the Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of CUNY that he founded after leaving Yale. J. Lee Shneidman was named Professor Emeritus upon retiring in August from Adelphi University where he will continue as an adjunct professor. At the Columbia University Seminars he will carry on as Director of the History of Legal and Political Thought and Institutions Seminar.
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 Rudolph Binion and David Felix; and Members Suzanne Adrion, Michael Britton, Flora Hogman, Geraldine Pauling, Anne Marie Plane, Rita Ransohoff, Vivian Rosenberg, Roberta Rubin, Lee Shneidman, Richard Weiss, and Isaac Zieman. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to C. Fred Alford, David Bright, Michael Brock, Ed de St. Aubin, Jeff Greenberg, Alan Jacobs, Jerry Kroth, Daniel Lassiter, Joel Lieberman, Kevin McCamanat, Margaret McLaughlin, Maria Miliora, Edryce Reynolds, H. John Rogers, Fernando Salla, Caroline Scielzo, Norma Shatan, Jay Sherry, Howard Stein, Charles Strozier, Junia Vilhena, Kipling Williams, Julie Anne Blackwell Young, and Maria Helena Zamora. Thanks to Tim Hamilton, Katie Moore, and Rebecca Elwood for assisting with proofreading, editing, and doing research. Finally, our thanks to Geri Kirschner Elovitz and Anna Lentz for their assistance, support, and understanding over an eight-year period
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as we turned Clio’s Psyche from an eight-page newsletter into a well-respected 48-60 page academic quarterly.
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Call for Papers
Psychobiography
Special Theme Issue
December, 2001
December, 2001
Some possible approaches include:
- Original psychobiographical vignettes
- Psychobiography-focused mini-interview with distinguished psychobiographers such as George, Mack, McAdams, Solomon, Strouse, and Tucker
- Symposium on Erikson’s Young Man Luther
- Your experience in researching, writing, and publishing psychobiography
- Developments in psychobiography in the last 15 years
- Issues in doing psychobiography:
- 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
- Reviews / review essays of psychobiographies by others
- Woman’s (or Feminist) psychobiography
- Your choice(s) for exemplary psychobiography(ies)
- Oral history as psychobiography
- Film and docudrama psychobiographies
- Anecdotes and legends about historical figures and the group fantasies they reveal
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