WAR WITH IRAQ SPECIAL FEATURE

CLASSICS AND PSYCHOHISTORIANS SPECIAL FEATURE

THE CHILD PSYCHOLOGY OF MR. ROGERS

BULLETIN BOARD

The next Psychohistory Forum WORK IN­PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR will be on September 20, 2003, when Lawrence Friedman (Indiana University) will speak on “Erik Erikson and Erich Fromm.” For the fall and winter seminars we are working to schedule Vamik Volkan (Center for Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia) and Omer Bartov (Brown University).

CONFERENCE: On April 12, 2003, in Manhattan, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) held its 31st annual conference on the topic of “Analytic Positions in the Exploration of Emotional Memory.” The keynote speaker was Lawrence Friedman, who spoke on “Addressing the Common Denominator of Thought, Action, and Emotion.” Names especially familiar to our readers among the many people making it a successful conference were Ellen Mendel, Margery Quackenbush, and Alan Roland.

MEMBERS CITED AS AUTHORITIES: When George Victor and David Beisel were recently shown on television as authorities for a History Channel program on Hitler and Stalin, they joined a growing list of members who have been called upon for their expertise.

AWARDS: Congratulations to Paul Elovitz on receipt of a lifetime achievement award as the founder and advisor to the Ramapo College History Club which was hailed as an outstanding student organization.

MOVED: Rita Ransohoff has moved to a retirement community in Connecticut. To contact her, call 203­315­1406 or write her at Evergreen Woods, North Branford, CT.

DEATHS: In March, of two who contributed to psychohistory: Elliott Jaques (age 88), psychoanalyst and management theorist, and Frank Manuel (age 92), historian and psychobiographer. Clio’s Psyche welcomes obituaries on these individuals for our next issue.

CORRECTION: In the March 2003 Clio’s Psyche (Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 163­164) article by Flora Hogman, “The Effects of Strong Emotions on Memory and the Re­creation of History,” it was the French school teacher rather than the Germans who asked the first grade students who was Jewish.

OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, Andrew Brink, and Ralph Colp; Patrons Peter Petschauer, H. John Rogers, and Jacques Szaluta; Sustaining Members David Beisel, Mary Coleman, Jay Gonen, Robert Pois, and Connalee and Lee Shneidman; Supporting Members C. Fred Alford, Rudolph Binion, Peter Loewenberg, and Jacqueline Paulson; and Members Richard Harrison, Nancy Kobrin, Maria Miliora, Dom and Mena Potts, Vivian Rosenberg, Hanna Turken, and George Victor. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Herbert Barry, Rudolph Binion, Sander Breiner, Kelly Bulkeley, Dereck Daschke, Geri Kirschner Elovitz, David Felix, Juhani Ihanus, Laura Levine, David Lotto, Sergio Medeiros, Thomas Plante, Bob Pois, Leon Rappoport, H. John Rogers, J. Lee Shneidman, Hanna Turken, Nancy Unger, Junia Vilhena, and Victor Wolfenstein.

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Call for Papers

The Psychology of America as an Imperial Power

Special Theme Issue, Dec. 2003

Some possible approaches to this topic include:

  • The “Why” of imperialism
  • Why other countries and peoples see America as imperialistic
  • Emotions aroused by words such as “occupation,” “world’s policeman,” and “empire”
  • The “imperial personality”
  • George W. Bush as imperial president
  • Psychodynamics of the neo­conservatives who advocate imperialism
  • Comparing modern America with Roman and British empires

Length: 500­1500 words

Deadline: Oct. 15 Contact Bob Lentz, Associate Editor

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