Volume 11 Number 1June 2004

BULLETIN BOARD

The next Psychohistory Forum WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR will be on October 23, 2004 when four scholars representing the Forum’s Research Group on the Childhood, Personality, and Psychology of Presidential Candidates and Presidents, will speak on “Psychohistorical Aspects of Election 2004.” The speakers and topics are as follows: Herbert Barry, PhD (University of Pittsburgh), “Differences Between Candidate and President Kerry,” Paul Elovitz, PhD (Ramapo College), “Bush and Kerry as Their Fathers’ Sons,” Ted Goertzel, PhD (Rutgers University), “Ralph Nader: The Political Psychology of a Puritanical Perfectionist,” and Jennefer Mazza, PhD (Ramapo College), “Psychological Explorations of the 2004 Election Rhetoric and Culture Wars.” On behalf of the Presidential Research Group, at the 27^th Annual Convention of the International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) on June 2-4, 2004, there were three papers given on the panel, “Psychobiographical Insights on the 2004 Presidential Election”: Herbert Barry, “The Interaction between the Psychic Needs of Voters and Presidential Candidates,” Dan Dervin (Mary Washington College), “Bush’s Borderline Presidency: Accountability without Consequences,” and Paul Elovitz, “A Psychobiographical Comparison of Bush and Kerry.” These three papers are the basis of the fall issue of The Journal of Psychohistory. Other Forum members presenting at the IPA, held at New York University, were Sander Breiner, Jennifer Eastman, Marvin Eisenstadt, Anna Geifman, Irene Javors, Nancy Kobrin, David Lotto, Ellen Mendel, Richard Morrock, Denis O’Keefe, H. John Rogers, and George Victor. David Beisel had the honor of giving the IPA’s “Distinguished Academic Lecture.” April 2004 Forum seminars were by Barry Shapiro (Allegheny College) on “Conspiracy Thinking in the French Revolution,” Anna Geifman (Boston University) on “Lenin’s Personality Profile,” and Philip Pomper (Wesleyan University) on “Trotsky’s Self-Destructive Ambivalence.”

CONFERENCES: The 32^nd Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) will be held on Saturday, October 9, 2004 at the Marriott Financial Center Hotel. Contact Margery Quackenbush at for details. Avner Falk, Anna Geifman, Nancy Kobrin, Elizabeth Marvick, and Jacques Szaluta are among the Forum members and subscribers presenting papers at the 27^th Annual Conference of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) to be held in Lund, Sweden on July 15-18, 2004.

CONGRATULATIONS to Eva Fogelman on the film “Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust,” which she wrote and co-produced. Flora Hogman presented the paper, “The Press and the Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Reflections on Resilience,” on May 1 at the Annual Conference of the New York State Psychological Association held in Saratoga Springs.

AWARDS: The Psychohistory Forum is open to nominations for the Sidney Halpern Award for the Best Psychohistorical Idea or Accomplishment. This may be granted at the graduate, undergraduate, or postgraduate levels.

RECUPERATION: Our best to Charles Gouaux of St. Louis who is recuperating from surgery and may be e-mailed at or called at (314) 863-6249.

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, H. John Rogers, and Shirley Stewart; Supporting Members Rudolph Binion, Bob Lentz, and Jacqueline Paulson; and Members John Hartman and Maria Miliora. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to David Beisel, Dan Dervin, Peter Jüngst, Peter Petschauer, Philip Pomper, and Joan Wynn. Our appreciation to Dick Booth and Bob Lentz for selected editing and to Jaclyn Dilling for proofreading.

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Psychohistorical Networking

Congratulations to Thomas Blass of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County on the publication of his book, The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram (NY: Basic Books, 2004, Hardcover ISBN 0-7382-0399-8, 360 pages, $26.00). You can see the eye-catching book cover, as well as some readers’ comments, by going to the Milgram website: http://www.stanleymilgram.com. “Readers may remember Professor Blass’ article, “Stanley Milgram and His Obedience Experiments,” (Vol. 4, No. 4 [March, 1998], pp. 109-112), in the special feature, STANLEY MILGRAM AND OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY, with other articles by George Kren, Andre Modigliani, and Francois Rochat. The Library Journal has called the book “among the best biographies of psychologists” and Publishers Weekly deemed it “an important contribution to…science history.”

Recently, the author wrote us a note of thanks that reads as follows: “Clio’s Psyche played a part in helping transform an idea into reality. In 1998, I wrote a brief article on Milgram which was seen by a literary agent, Theresa Park, because a client’s book was reviewed in the same issue Clio’s Psyche. She got in touch with me and the rest is history.” A review of the book is scheduled to appear in these pages before the end of this year.

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Call for Papers