Volume 10 Number 4March 2004

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The next Psychohistory Forum WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR will be on April 3, 2004 when Barry Shapiro, PhD (Allegheny College) will speak on “Conspiracy Thinking in the French Revolution.” It will be followed on April 24 when Anna Geifman, PhD (Boston University) will present “Lenin’s Personality Profile” and Philip Pomper, PhD (Wesleyan University) on “Trotsky’s Self-Destructive Ambivalence.” (The April 24 meeting is an afternoon seminar from 12:30-3:30.) Herbert Barry and Paul Elovitz will be presenting the Fall 2004 reports of the Forum’s Research Group on the Childhood, Personality, and Psychology of Presidential Candidates and Presidents. Additional psychobiographical presenters will be considered for this panel. Recent Forum seminars have been on March 6, 2004 when David Beisel spoke on “Unfinished Mourning and the Origins of

WWII: Chamberlain as Exemplar” with 16 colleagues in attendance. (Note that Professor Beisel’s book, The Suicidal Embrace: Hitler, The Allies, and the Origins of the Second World War, has finally been published by Circumstantial Productions/6 South Broadway/Nyack, NY 10960/Tel. 845-358-3603.) On December 16 Ralph Colp, Paul Elovitz, Henry Lawton, Jerry Piven, and Robert Quackenbush presented on “The History, Present State, and Next Assignment of Psychohistory.” Jacques Szaluta presented in absentia through the chair, after the snowed-out seminar was rescheduled to a time when he had a previous engagement.

CONFERENCES: The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) is calling for papers on The Many Aspects of Fantasy for its 32nd Annual Conference to be held on Saturday, October 9, 2004 at the Marriott Financial Center Hotel. By May 1, 2004, abstracts should be sent to Margery Quackenbush, PhD, NAAP Administrator at naap72@aol.com. At the International Psychohistorical Association’s 27th annual conference at New York University (June 2-4, 2004) Herbert Barry, Dan Dervin and Paul Elovitz will present under the sponsorship of the Research Group on the Childhood, Personality, and Psychology of Presidential Candidates and Presidents. IPA president Henry Lawton welcomes additional presentation proposals. He may be reached at <>.

CONGRATULATIONS: To Ted Goertzel on the Publication of the second edition of the revised Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than 700 Famous Men and Women (Scottsdale, AZ: Great Potential Press, 2004), originally published by his parents in 1962. Also, to George Victor, who has completed his second book, The Myth of Pearl Harbor, on WWII, which is now under review by a press, and to Mary Coleman, who has completed her long awaited book, Blood of the Beloved, which is in press.

NOTES ON PSYCHOHISTORIANS: In February the City of Vienna, in collaboration with the World Council of Psychotherapy, granted Vamik Volkan the Sigmund Freud Award for “outstanding contributions to psychotherapy worldwide.” Peter J. Loewenberg of UCLA spent part of December teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy supervision in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Hong Kong. Two New York Jewish psychoanalyst members of the Forum have been doing considerable speaking in Germany and the U.S. on the issue of reconciliation of Germans and Jews after the Holocaust. Isaac Zieman, who lost his entire family in Latvia, has been speaking about reconciliation in Germany for the last 30 years. In this country he is associated with the One by One Dialogue Group. Ellen Mendel, who escaped Germany as a child, for the last five years has been going back to the land of her birth speaking under the auspices of the program: Rescuing History; A Project of Dialogue, Reconciliation and Healing. Margo Kren, widow of George Kren, has retired from teaching at the University of Kansas. The sad news of the death of Rita Ransohoff, has just reached us. We hope to have an obituary in the next issue. The International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Alexander L. George Book Award for the best political psychology book in the previous year, to be given at the July 2004 Annual Scientific meeting in Lund, Sweden.

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 Beisel, Andrew Brink, David Lotto, Peter Petschauer, and H. John Rogers; Sustaining Members Connee/Lee Shneidman, Shirley Stewart, and Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Rudolph

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Binion, David Felix, Peter Loewenberg, and Jacqueline Paulson; and Members anonymous, Ted Goertzel, Nancy Kobrin, Richard Morrock, and Hanna Turken. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Donna Crawley, Jaclyn Dilling, Lawrence J. Friedman, Anna Geifman, Carol Gilligan, David Lotto, and Peter W. Petschauer. Our appreciation to Dick Booth and Bob Lentz for editing select articles and to Jaclyn Dilling and Eric Nelson for proof reading. A number of individuals are deserving of credit for technical support for training this editor in Publisher 2000: Jun Chen, Bob Lentz, and, in the Ramapo College Technical Laboratory, Ray Fallon and Tibor Csokasi.

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