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Volume 9 Number 1June 2002
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
CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN THE 21ST CENTURY SPECIAL ISSUE
- Elovitz, P. H. (2002). Children, childhood, and childrearing dilemmas. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.70763/dfccdb8b1cc7e4dab6d33db0fef12b88
- Brisson, U. (2002). Tomboy [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.70763/47e51e9d11cf800ff08674dbb68a48ab
- Coleman, M. (2002). Childhood in Ancient Mesopotamia. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 7-8. https://doi.org/10.70763/444b0d9a802792791bb9a2da568b463d
- Barry, H., III. (2002). Culture and corporal punishment. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 8-9. https://doi.org/10.70763/7d5430cf85f78c4b7aa09813b14bce0d
- Quackenbush, R. (2002). Learning from playing with children in psychotherapy. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 9-11. https://doi.org/10.70763/c0172ea66506f59c8c435eb66176fb67
- Heidenreich, F. (2002). Children of immigrants carrying the sadness of their parents. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 11-13. https://doi.org/10.70763/5ee5605917626676f6a285fa4c10f7b0
- Medeiros, S. (2002). From swan to ugly duckling. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 13-14. https://doi.org/10.70763/e382f91e2c82c3853aeb0d3948275232
- McCamant, K. J. (2002). Genocidal childhood in the ghetto? Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 14-16. https://doi.org/10.70763/083b65c888b720c920dcaead304c5989
- de Vilhena, J., & Zamora, M. H. (2002). Being a child in a Brazilian slum. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 16-18. https://doi.org/10.70763/8f4d94fa779cb6b74225a9e26c700a39
- Lawton, H. (2002). The myth of altruism revisited. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 18-20. https://doi.org/10.70763/ee492a6c8f567fb3100b7dc9d3600cbe
- Gonpu, G. (2002). An African child’s servitude, sufferings, and success. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 20-23. https://doi.org/10.70763/8d1f1aac0dd8a76b49e8bbdda0c7c98c
- von Buchler, E. (2002). Growing up in the high-tech world. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 23-24. https://doi.org/10.70763/fa40b3850046b362217c121a274720fd
- Levine, L. E., & Waite, B. M. (2002). Television and the life of the American child. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 24-26. https://doi.org/10.70763/320e4df890a1a620573db8170f39a093
INTERVIEW
- Elovitz, P. H., & Lentz, B. (2002). Elizabeth Wirth Marvick: Half a century of childhood [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 1, 26-36. https://doi.org/10.70763/8b519f198dd26772e3e82874826b04aa
SLAVERY AND SERFDOM SPECIAL ISSUE
- Kalfus, M., & Colp, R., Jr. (2002). Genius and empathy: Darwin, Olmsted, and slavery. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 1, 36-37. https://doi.org/10.70763/53253027fef2ab5162a602f2acfed431
- Colp, R., Jr. (2002). Darwin and slavery. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 37-41. https://doi.org/10.70763/a7d9277053b8355e69db079f52d274e9
- Kalfus, M. (2002). Olmsted and slavery. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 41-45. https://doi.org/10.70763/7cc5a75432e9a547200e3668c3761ae7
- Rousselle, R. (2002). Parental debt and the enslavement of children in Ancient Athens. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 45-46. https://doi.org/10.70763/d5c8e1ab6fc0bfeb5f29aafa999cdb29
- Elovitz, P. H. (2002). Serfs in North America? Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 46-49. https://doi.org/10.70763/82138b11a724b94d18df2e083d8b7b55
MEMORIALS
- Elovitz, P. H. (2002). In Memoriam: Melvin Kalfus (1931-2002) [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 48-51. https://doi.org/10.70763/85dfba75bcadb576723264b5986f2ac2
- Beisel, D. (2002). Mel Kalfus remembered [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 51-52. https://doi.org/10.70763/ffa9b486ad206c638c657b7ed335635c
- Colp, R., Jr. (2002). Mel Kalfus remembered [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 52. https://doi.org/10.70763/fbb5d2cf4558b47551ad4a26ce3f11a0
- Prince, C. (2002). Mel Kalfus remembered [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 52-53. https://doi.org/10.70763/ede529dfcbb2907e9760eea0875cdd12
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Rogers, H. J. (2002). A psychohistorical view of anti-Semitism after September 11. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 53-54. https://doi.org/10.70763/135593dd9bc3d98e8d8e71d788c9dda6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Hogman, F. (2002). Rage and victimization in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 54-56. https://doi.org/10.70763/b943325cc7b7422d2871b345bf9b067f
MEETING REPORT
- Quackenbush, M., & Izinicki, G. (2002). Trauma and change: Psychoanalysis in a time of crisis [Meeting Report]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 56-57. https://doi.org/10.70763/564127c03caab942e503ee6f810f54fd
BULLETIN BOARD
The next Psychohistory Forum WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR will be on September 21, 2002 when Paul H. Elovitz (Ramapo College), will present “Psychoanalytic and Psychohistorical Approaches to the American Presidency.” On November 9, 2002, Mary Coleman (Emeritus, Georgetown University School of Medicine) will present “Some Thoughts on Violence and War,” a chapter from her forthcoming book on the origins of war. Forum members are reminded that the annual program consists
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of five or six seminars, normally held in mid-September, early November, late January, early March, and once or twice in April. Specific dates, presenters, papers, and locations are announced by mail, e-mail, and sometimes this Bulletin Board.
CONFERENCES: The Research Group on Trauma, Mourning, and Clinical Practice of the Psychohistory Forum is presenting a panel at the International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) June 5-7, 2002, meetings at New York University with papers by Nancy Kobrin, Irene Javors, Ted Goertzel, and Paul Elovitz. Jacques Szaluta is the chair. Some of the other members and subscribers presenting at the IPA are Charles Strozier, Howard Stein, Robert Rousselle, Denis O’Keefe, Henry Lawton, David Lotto, Anie Kalayjian, Daniel Dervin, Lloyd deMause, and Sander Breiner. Among members and subscribers presenting at the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) Berlin July 16-19, 2002, conference are Herbert Barry, Paul Elovitz, Aubrey Immelman, and Nancy Kobrin. At the July 4-7, 2002, international conference on “Hierarchy and Civilization” in St. Petersburg, Russia, sponsored by the Russian Academy of Science, Herbert Barry is presenting “Community Customs Associated with Political Subordination.” Last February, Barry presented “Cultural Customs Associated with a Genital Operation on Adolescent Boys” to the Santa Fe Society for Cross-Cultural Research. The meetings of the University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium on May 3-5, 2002, focused on “Memory, Terror, and Generations: The Enduring Impact of Trauma.” Anne Marie Plane was the coordinator. The Kestenberg Holocaust Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Training Institute for Mental Health and Child Development Research, was held at the CUNY Graduate Center on May 6, 2002. Eva Fogelman served as moderator. Judith Kestenberg, the late advocate for children caught up in the Holocaust, child analyst, and member of the Psychohistory Forum, was memorialized at the meetings. Montague Ullman will be offering a Leadership Training Workshop in group dream work on July 19, 2002, in Ardsley, New York. For information, call (914) 693-0156.
PUBLICATIONS: Congratulations to C. Fred Alford on the publication of Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Frankfurt School (Middletown and London: Wesleyan University Press and Continuum Books, 2002) and to Norman Simms on Sir Gawain and the Knight of the Green Chapel (scheduled for release by the University of America Press on June 28).
AWARDS AND VISITING LECTURES: Jacques Szaluta received the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) 2002 Gradiva Award in the category of Best Book-Psychohistory for Psychohistory: Theory and Practice and Charles Strozier received the Gradiva Award for Best Book-Biography for Heinz Kohut, The Making of a Psychoanalyst. Forum member Robert Quackenbush was among those serving on the NAAP selection committee. Rudolph Binion is on a European lecture and research tour. In May he lectured at the University of Glasgow’s Department of Medieval History on “The Black Death and the Dance of the Dead.” He is the Distinguished Speaker on “Traumatic Reliving” at a July psychohistory mini-conference in Vichy, France. Later in the summer, Professor Binion will speak at Clermont-Ferrand on the subject of European identify in psychohistorical perspective, under the patronage of Giscard d’Estaing.
CONDOLENCES: To Fred Alford on the recent death of his father.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, David Beisel, Andrew Brink, Ralph Colp, and Mary Lambert; Patrons Peter Petschauer and H. John Rogers; Sustaining Members Kevin McCamant and Robert Pois; Supporting Members C. Fred Alford, Peter Loewenberg, and Jacqueline Paulson; and Members Ted Goertzel, Anie Kalayjian, Nancy Kobrin, Maria Miliora, Richard Morrock, Mena Potts, Howard Stein, Charles Strozier, and George Victor. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Herbert Barry, Ulrike Brisson, Elizabeth von Buchler, Mary Coleman, Ralph Colp, George Gonpu, Felicia Heidenreich, Flora Hogman, Genevieve Izinicki, Alma Kalfus, Michael Kalfus, Henry Lawton, Laura Levine, Kevin
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McCamant, Sergio Medeiros, Carl Prince, Margery Quackenbush, Robert Quackenbush, Carol Raphan, John Rogers, Robert Rousselle, Junia de Vilhena, Bradley Waite, and Maria Helena Zamora. Our appreciation to Monika Giacoppe for style editing and to Anna Lentz and Vikki Walsh for proofreading.
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Call for Papers
Psychology of the Arab-Israeli Conflict & Terrorism in the Middle East Special Theme Issue
December 2002
Some possible approaches include:
- The Nature and Causes of Terrorism: Comparative Middle Eastern Examples
- Applying Psychodynamic Concepts to the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle
- Factual, Historical Survey of Israeli-Palestinian Relations
- Finding Chosen Traumas and Chosen Glories in Israeli and Palestinian Histories
- Israeli Uses of the Holocaust in the Perpetuation of Trauma
- Identification and Ethnic Rituals in Large Groups
- Comparative Suffering and Victimization: Violence in the Name of Suffering
- Getting Beneath & Beyond Recrimination
- The Relationship Between Childrearing Practices and Political Behavior
- Women in Palestinian Society and the Intifada
- Unconscious Sadomasochistic Elements
- Mutual Self-destructive Behavior of Israelis and Palestinians
- Psychobiographical Studies of Arafat, Barak, Sharon, and Other Leaders
- The Changing Identity of Arab Israelis
- Leader-Follower Dynamics
- Orthodox Jews and Fundamentalist Muslims
- Internecine Clashes—Violence Against One’s Own
- Cycles of Violence and Exhaustion, War and Peace, Conflict and Resolution
- Journeys to Peace: Crossing the Psychological Borders to Conflict Resolutions
- Implications of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute for the U.S. War on Terrorism
- Changing Views of Israel and the Palestinians in Europe and America
- Book Reviews, for example, Sharon’s Warrior
500-1500 words, due September 15
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Call for Papers
Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience Special Theme Issue
September 2002
Some possible approaches include:
- Personal Accounts on How Your Perspectives on Religion Have Been Changed by Psychoanalysis
- Reconsidering Classic Thinkers Such as Freud and Weston LeBarre
- Religious Development in Childhood
- Religious Dreams and the Use of Dreams by Religious Leaders
- Terror in the Name of God (e.g., anti-abortionism, jihad)
- Sexual Abuse of Children by Priests
- Psychobiographic Sketches of Modern Preachers, Prophets, Messiahs (e.g., Robertson, Farrakhan, Koresh)
500-1500 words, due June 15
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Professor Charles Strozier recently established a new Center on Terrorism and Public Safety at John Jay College, CUNY. The purpose of the Center is to study terrorism in ways that are familiar and appropriate for a university but also to search for concrete applications of that research to make the world a safer place. Professor Strozier’s own particular area of research is a psychological study of the World Trade Center Disaster through interviews with witnesses and survivors; his special concern is with the apocalyptic meanings of the disaster. The Center on Terrorism, in other words, seeks to blend scholarship and commitment in the context of traumatic historical memory. Professor Strozier may be contacted at .
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Comments on the March Special Issue on Terrorism and “Home”
[Editor’s Note: We do not normally keep track of comments on Clio’s Psyche by readers. However, after the first half dozen e-mail or in-person remarks on our March issue, we kept a record of the next 10 which are listed below.]
- “The recent issue of Clio’s Psyche was indeed great, especially [the article on] mourning … superb.” -A distinguished eastern professor
- “Clio’s Psyche is absolutely what I was looking for to help me understand better the goings-on in this world. The recent issue … is very illuminating. What amount makes one a Benefactor?” -From a new subscriber on the West Coast
- “Clio’s Psyche always looks great! I like the shorter format articles because that means I at least have a fighting chance of reading some of them.” -A West Coast professor
- “We all loved it.” -A southern professor
- “Kudos on the issue … the articles are very good.” -A Midwestern psychoanalyst
- “I did want to let you know how valuable I found your issue on terrorism, bin Laden, etc. It is really helping me on my [IPA] paper.” -A West Coast professor and psychologist
- “I thought the last issue of Clio was excellent. I especially enjoyed Nancy Kobrin’s article on bin Laden and political violence.” -A Midwestern professor
- “[The] article was very good and the issue in general was the same. Thank you for your hard work.” -A history professor at a western university
- “…how much I’ve enjoyed Clio’s last issue. The whole discussion about “home” interested me greatly.” -An overseas subscriber
- “I am so impressed with the issue on terrorism that just came out and am looking forward to the [Psychohistory Forum] meeting [on terrorism] on April 13.” -A New York City member of the Forum who is also a therapist
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