The Making of Psychohistory: Origins, Controversies, and Pioneering Contributors by Dr. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD (2018) – follow the link to order from the publisher (ISBN # 978-1-138-58749-6, use FLR40 code to get a 20% discount).
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Volume 10 Number 2September 2003
ISSN 1080-2622
THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF NATIONS SYMPOSIUM
- Brink, A. (2003). Responding to deMause’s examination of The Emotional Life of Nations. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 33-35. https://doi.org/10.70763/174b39525e01b7542b3ee27ac7251d2c
- Elovitz, P. H. (2003). Editor’s introduction. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 35. https://doi.org/10.70763/28ce9bc954876829eeb56ff46da8e1ab
- Alford, C. F. (2003). How could a famous author get so much wrong and still be right? Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 36-37. https://doi.org/10.70763/803a82dee7e3fbb3438a149508484250
- Dowling, J. (2003). Empirical metahistory? Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 37-39. https://doi.org/10.70763/2751fae77b24c37382cf6464173d145e
- Elovitz, P. H. (2003). A hedgehog’s opus reviewed by a fox. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 39-42. https://doi.org/10.70763/ecb9fe2fbb99c31f567e9823e884dbec
- Felix, D. (2003). Wanted: A book with feeling. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 42-44. https://doi.org/10.70763/44ece762ae7e41e3a0b1301488907eaa
- Petschauer, P. (2003). Modifying deMause. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 45-46. https://doi.org/10.70763/f26ecc6e3bc7f5e9c8cf23a7c7a315dd
- Rappoport, L. (2003). Efforts of a daring innovator. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 47-48. https://doi.org/10.70763/2ba2520186ee376e835ce7bf1554ef7b
- Shneidman, J. L. (2003). The emotions of Lloyd deMause. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 48-49. https://doi.org/10.70763/fc5dda17bef960b7c200e7d8063142ec
- Tritle, L. A. (2003). deMause’s psychology is at odds with history. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 50-52. https://doi.org/10.70763/34ad9bc83e3c72c62281cb2c744ac966
- deMause, L. (2003). My reply to reviewers. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 52-55. https://doi.org/10.70763/94c4dd41f9dddce696557d3717d98d82
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Elovitz, P. H. (2003). The making and makers of psychohistory and psychological society. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 33, 55-58. https://doi.org/10.70763/c55430fdfdac11fc3771a9b94e2bb854
BOOK REVIEWS
- Goertzel, T. (2003). Psychobiography of Brazil’s “son”: Lula da Silva [Review of the book Lula: O Filho do Brasil by Denise Paraná (2002)]. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 58-61. https://doi.org/10.70763/161882dd2d19c716819081aee2c08b98
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Rogers, H. J. (2003). Senator Byrd: From klansman to senate patrician. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 61-64. https://doi.org/10.70763/31a6b5568bbb9c350c1b296d9086acf0
- Dervin, D. (2003). Shooting, rescuing, and mythologizing Private Lynch. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 64-65. https://doi.org/10.70763/a957aa96221d0b7cb99ab072eaed7bf9
BOOK REVIEWS
- Wilson, N. (2003). Psychoanalyzing Israel and the peace process [Review of the book Israel on the Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process by Ofer Grosbard (2003)]. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 65-66. https://doi.org/10.70763/55ed523b2ca4371a31d7dbd7a2877bea
- Gonen, J. Y. (2003). Muhammad and the Islamic community [Review of the book Muhammad and the Rise of Islam: The Creation of Group Identity by Subhash C. Inamdar (2001)]. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 66-69. https://doi.org/10.70763/53edebc543333dfbf7c5933af792c9c4
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Shneidman, J. L. (2003). A response to Nancy Kobrin’s references to Spanish history. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 69-70. https://doi.org/10.70763/77ef24b42fcecae4ba74fa68137f3e43
- Kobrin, N. H. (2003). Kobrin replies to Shneidman. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 70-71. https://doi.org/10.70763/f1b8b7b3ceb65c188dcdc0851634cadf
- Lotto, D. (2003). Psychoanalytic explorations of the other as rationalization of vengeance. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 71-73. https://doi.org/10.70763/c600b4b49faa3a2a165242e90ca21ac3
- Kobrin, N. H. (2003). Kobrin replies to Lotto. Clio’s Psyche, 10(2), 73-74. https://doi.org/10.70763/9cd78264cf2cd821ba651485c111a29a
BULLETIN BOARD
The Lawrence Friedman (Indiana University) Psychohistory Forum WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR presentation, “Erik Erikson and Erich Fromm,” originally scheduled for September 20, will be rescheduled to the late winter or spring. For the fall and winter seminars we are working to schedule Vamik Volkan (Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction of the University of Virginia), who will present “Signs and Symptoms of Large Group Regressions in the World and Post 9/11 America.”
CONFERENCES: At the International Psychohistorical Association 26th annual conference in Manhattan on June 4-6, among the many presenters were Forum members Rudy Binion, Jennifer Eastman, Paul Elovitz, Nancy Kobrin, Richard Morrock, Denis O’Keefe, Edryce Reynolds, H. John Rogers, and George Victor. At the International Society for Political Psychology conference, among the Forum members who participated on the program were Fred Alford, Herbert Barry, Rudy Binion, Alan Elms, Paul Elovitz, and Jacques Szaluta. The Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction is scheduling a November 15-16, 2003, seminar in Charlottesville, Virginia, on “Understanding Traumatized Societies.” Among the presenters are Leo Rangell and Vamik Volkan. For details contact Liz Olmsted by e-mail at <> or by telephone at (434) 982-1045.
HONORS: From September 2003 until March 2004, Vamik Volkan will be the Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
NEW MEMBER: We welcome Dereck Daschke to the Forum’s membership.
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 David Lotto, Peter Petschauer, and H. John Rogers; Sustaining Members David Beisel, Robert Pois, and Connie/Lee Shneidman, and Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Rudolph Binion, Andrew Brink, and Jacqueline Paulson; and Members Suzanne Adrion, Sander Breiner, James Booth, Alberto Fergusson, Ted Goertzel, Geraldine Pauling, Margery Quackenbush, Howard Stein, and Richard Weiss. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Fred Alford, Andrew Brink, Lloyd deMause, Dan Dervin, Joseph Dowling, David Felix, Ted Goertzel, Jay Gonen, Nancy Kobrin, David Lotto, Peter Petschauer, Leon Rappoport, H. John Rogers, Lee Shneidman, Lawrence Tritle, and Neil Wilson.
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Editorial Board Appointment
We are pleased to announce the appointment of James William Anderson to the Editorial Board of Clio’s Psyche. Jim Anderson is a psychologist/psychoanalyst in private practice and Clinical Associate Professor at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, where he has taught since 1981 and was named Outstanding Teacher by the Division of Psychology in 1995. In 1998 he also became a Faculty member of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In 2000 he was appointed Associate Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis (Volume 31) and as such has played a key role in the special issue on psychohistory that will be published later this year. Anderson is author or co-author of 29 publications. Among his subjects are Sigmund Freud, the Jameses (William and Henry and their mother Mary), Henry A. Murray, Woodrow Wilson, and the methodology of psychobiography. His forthcoming article in the Annual of Psychoanalysis is on the relevance of recent psychoanalytic theorists (Kernberg, Kohut, and Winnicott) to psychobiography.
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Call for Papers
America as an Imperial Power? Psychological Implications
Special Theme Issue, Dec. 2003
Some possible approaches to this topic include:
- The psychohistorical/psychological “whys” of American economic, cultural, military, and technological imperialism
- The trauma of September 11 as the impetus for 21st-century American imperialism
- Bush’s Preemption Doctrine as a cover for imperialism
- Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Middle East: images, fantasies, and realities of imperialism
- In what ways is/is not the “American character” imperialistic?
- Religion as a motivation for imperialism
- Contrasting American self-images as democrats and imperialists
- The implications of an American empire in denial
- Emotions aroused by words such as “manifest destiny,” “world’s policeman,” “globalization,” “occupation,” and “em-pire”
- Comparing modern America with the Roman and British empires: The psychodynamics of democracy becoming empire
- The psychology of the “imperial personality” from Cecil Rhodes to George W. Bush
- Psychobiographic profiles of the Roosevelts and Douglas MacArthur (in Japan) as proto-Caesars
- Psychodynamics of the neo-conservatives who advocate imperialism
- Psychologically oriented review essays of recent relevant books such as Clyde Prestowitz, Rogue Nation, and Warren Zimmerman, First Great Triumph
- Symbols of American imperialism/empire
- Using “presidential theater” and “stage-craft” on television to promote an imperial presidency
- In the age of television, does America have the staying power for imperialism?
- Imperialism in literature: Beyond Conrad and Kipling
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