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Volume 9 Number 3December 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
Articles (14)
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT SPECIAL ISSUE
- Gonen, J. Y. (2002). The impossible Palestinians and Israelis. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 125-127. https://doi.org/10.70763/c09b1eadea0efc7914f73ac698494b5e
- Isaacs, M. (2002). Psychological reflections on the Palestinian mindset. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 127-129. https://doi.org/10.70763/27b09e189a405b6cca6ddd7ec869c143
- Hazani, M. (2002). Using Lifton’s “Symbolic Immortality” to predict Arab violence. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 129-131. https://doi.org/10.70763/5460b9ea1986ec386cb64df22dff37be
- Van Assche, T. (2002). Yasser Arafat’s personality and leadership style. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 131-133. https://doi.org/10.70763/721e049e9903c3a740c4902878c99923
- Rogers, H. J. (2002). The myth of return. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 133-134. https://doi.org/10.70763/0b6a27e2bfcb010e762109f0d2e042dc
- Slivko, L. (2002). Israeli and Palestinian Psychoanalysts Struggle to Understand the Conflict. Review of the book Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology: Critical Essays on the Israel/Palestine Case edited by John Bunzl & Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (2002). Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 134-136. https://doi.org/10.70763/0af854284f4ab0cfea8fcfd889cbb41a
- Sarsar, S. (2002). Jerusalem and peacemaking in Palestinian Arab and Israeli Jewish relations. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 136-138. https://doi.org/10.70763/75c58d36157505a600e0695ed0b3a22d
- Oman, D., & Myers, D. (2002). Ghaffar Khan: A Muslim advocate of nonviolence. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 138-140. https://doi.org/10.70763/c77cfd5563c8ec4bfcde94c09098ba84
- Elovitz, P. H. (2002). Perspectives on teaching about war-making in 2002 America. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 125, 140-144. https://doi.org/10.70763/082a8bbf2c357c09f26675f9cf5bcba3
- Tritle, L. (2002). The largely ignored trauma of war. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 144-146. https://doi.org/10.70763/84e2d85ac232c681a641da1ec663888c
INTERVIEWS
- Elovitz, P. H. (2002). Psychohistorian of the Islamic Near East: Norman Itzkowitz [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 146-150. https://doi.org/10.70763/1755c118e8859eb000eb6eca25369407
BOOK REVIEWS
- Stein, H. F. (2002). Exploring the emotional life of nations [Review of the book The Emotional Life of Nations by Lloyd deMause (2002)]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 150-152. https://doi.org/10.70763/7bb7a62681a8a0f94ab424b06d172ca3
- Anderson, R. D. (2002). Forger Mark Hofmann and his Joseph Smiths [Review of the book The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall (2002)]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 152-154. https://doi.org/10.70763/cfa258af990f9cb188d36ddb5c6eb650
- Lotto, D. (2002). Stein’s study of trauma in the workplace [Review of the book Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey into Organizational Darkness by Howard F. Stein (2001)]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(3), 154-156. https://doi.org/10.70763/03fcd68e5673f08be96d2b6bb5be8261
BULLETIN BOARD
The next Psychohistory Forum WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR will be on February 1, 2003, when Robert Quackenbush (Liberty Avenue Project) will present “Understanding Children and Adolescents Through Their Symbolic Communications.”
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT: Congratulations to Irene Javors on being appointed Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at New Jersey City University for 2002-2003.
CONFERENCES: The Call for Papers for the July 6-9, 2003, Boston meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) is now online at <http://ispp.org/ISPP/2003conf/2003call.html>. Contact Henry Lawton at <> for information on the June 6-8, 2003, International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) New York City meeting.
SPECIAL ISSUES: July 31, 2003, is the deadline for the special issue on authoritarianism of Psychology. The editor of the issue may be reached at <>.
TRAVEL: Andrew and Helen Brink have recently been traveling in France. Mary Coleman and Jay Gonen have been in France, Italy, and Switzerland, while Flora Hogman was in Portugal and Spain.
NEW MEMBERS: We welcome Michael Nielsen, Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Southern University and the author of Psychology of Religion Pages on the Internet at <www.psywww.com/psyrelig>, and Shirley Stewart, a writer, who recently retired as the editor of the quarterly of the UN/NGO Association for World Education.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, Ralph Colp, and Mary Lambert; Patrons Peter Petschauer, H. John Rogers, and Jacques Szaluta; Sustaining Members Kevin McCamant and Connee and Lee Shneidman; Supporting Members David Felix and Shirley Stewart; and Members James Booth, Sander Breiner, Charles Gouaux, Flora Hogman, Harry Keyishian, Peggy McLaughlin, Geraldine Pauling, Margery Quackenbush, and Roberta Rubin. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Robert Anderson, Jay Gonen, Moshe Hazani, Michael Isaacs, Norman Itzkowitz, David Lotto, Dennis Myers, Douglas Oman, John Rogers, Saliba Sarsar, Leah Slivko, Howard Stein, Lawrence Tritle, and Tobias Van Assche.
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Call for Papers
Emotions in History
Some possible approaches include:
- Changing Emphasis on Emotions Over Time
- What Emotions Are Acceptable / Unacceptable in Different Classes, Cultures & Periods
- The Interplay of Emotions and Ideology
- Attempts to Use Science to Deny Emotion
- Probing and Trusting the Emotions Expressed in Autobiography and Biography
- Case Studies of Emotion, for example:
- Darwin’s Love of Nature and Humility
- Anger and Hatred in the Life of Marx
- Gender Variations in Emotions
- Group Fantasies Generated by Fear (Anthrax, Nuclear Terrorism, the Sniper)
- The Expression of Emotion in Dreams
Length: 500-1500 words
Deadline: January 10
Contact: Paul Elovitz, Editor
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Interview with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, the Author of The Making of Psychohistory (conducted by Ken Fuchsman, EdD, week of July 2, 2018) – View it here https://youtu.be/noYaOoC3Lig
