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Volume 12 Number 2September 2005
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 (25)
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Fuchsman, K. (2005). Filial loyalty and rebellion in Watergate: Woodward, Felt and Nixon. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 37-42. https://doi.org/10.70763/99cd3843754d20ec3c5885d805db8a32
- Elovitz, P. H. (2005). Reflections on “Deep Throat.” Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 42-46. https://doi.org/10.70763/169806bb68ccbf5e6f96ddc60c40a044
- Stein, H. F. (2005). Our horror: A psychohistorical meditation. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 46-48. https://doi.org/10.70763/0f7b2bb5d0c7e6209ecff113108f64cf
- Victor, G. (2005). The Sin Against the Blood, Hitler, and the Holocaust. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 37, 48-49. https://doi.org/10.70763/ba3c736667394d5082f86f28aef38107
- Elovitz, P. (2005). Thomas A. Kohut: Historian with a psychoanalytic world view [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 37, 49-56. https://doi.org/10.70763/0428be7495f8f382d0943cdd4738ffbb
DID 1940 VICHY SHAPE 1958 PARIS? A SYMPOSIUM
- Binion, R. (2005). De Gaulle as Pétain. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 37, 56-66. https://doi.org/10.70763/dfc69ee4c48a622e2bcda2c3d2a219d0
- Elovitz, P. H. (2005). Reflections on the Binion symposium. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 66-69. https://doi.org/10.70763/812469e49663025b39e8d25fdaad81a7
- Beisel, D. R. (2005). Repeat performances. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 69-71. https://doi.org/10.70763/e143c01e314f7b950daca31188cb5d0f
- Felix, D. (2005). Pétain as de Gaulle. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 71-72. https://doi.org/10.70763/ced92d38d8fec10f1da779dfa44f8bbe
- Fisher, D. J. (2005). Personal trauma or traumatic reliving. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 72-74. https://doi.org/10.70763/c4bfbf68f5d8d0f8b9a0752ca08ea01d
- Golsan, R. J. (2005). History does not repeat itself. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 74-76. https://doi.org/10.70763/696186d1596721cb6e79013d4655c5d9
- Hellman, J. (2005). Memory and the sense of self in time of crisis. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 76-79. https://doi.org/10.70763/84cdde86a4560c17d00c9c437fc2f0da
- Kalman, S. (2005). From Vichy to Algiers. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 79-82. https://doi.org/10.70763/ab4c389364232588a6680ad92ec170c7
- Klenbort, D. (2005). National trauma and history. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 82-83. https://doi.org/10.70763/6495cf7ca745a9443508b86951b8e33a
- Pomper, P. (2005). De Gaulle, collective trauma, and Oedipal drama. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 83-85. https://doi.org/10.70763/6cf75a28ed72a43ef7ca1b66ff345859
- Shapiro, B. (2005). What was relived in 1958? Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 85-87. https://doi.org/10.70763/68a15b5278e4f7c4c056df9d5f1d3b1f
- Shneidman, J. L. (2005). Pétain and De Gaulle: Recollections of 1940. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 87-90. https://doi.org/10.70763/76d7c0780ceb8fbf964c102ebc16d75f
- Szaluta, J. (2005). Pétain and De Gaulle: A contrast in personality and leadership. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 90-94. https://doi.org/10.70763/88340338e0a0cdc54350c05cf056dca8
- Winkler, H. R. (2005). Commentary on Binion. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 94-95. https://doi.org/10.70763/57e5cb96e22546001f1d6520ff11d9ba
- Zaretsky, R. (2005). Thoughts on Binion’s “De Gaulle as Pétain”. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 95-97. https://doi.org/10.70763/1109f8734e117143a570a8bf9f8c47b2
- Binion, R. (2005). Rudolph Binion Replies. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 97-100. https://doi.org/10.70763/abc99d6b9938aa86d1f30f8ee0fd169f
BOOK REVIEWS
- Massimo, V. S. (2005). The changing world of children [Review of the book Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than 700 Famous Men and Women by Ted George Goertzel & Ariel Hansen (2004)]. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 100-103. https://doi.org/10.70763/83187550749e6b8024a097630f9d4722
MEETING REPORT
- Elovitz, P. H. (2005). The next assignment of psychohistory [Meeting Report]. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 103-106. https://doi.org/10.70763/08f0efebb1c51aada9430a089a2050cc
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Pagter, C. R. (2005). My collaboration with Alan Dundes. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 106-107. https://doi.org/10.70763/059d9e01176ab2f0892fe2215835bf19
MEMORIALS
- Elovitz, P. H. (2005). John E. Mack (1929-2004): In memoriam [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 12(2), 107-111. https://doi.org/10.70763/29e11ea8ec6c7804a7f939e8e78e9c18
BULLETIN BOARD
The next Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Saturday Seminar will be on September 17, 2005 when Donald Carveth (York-Canada), Paul Elovitz (Ramapo), and Ken Fuchsman (University Connecticut) will present “Watergate and the 1970s as the Age of Permissiveness-Narcissism.” Subsequent 2005/2006 presentations will include Thomas Ferraro, Christine Silverstein, and Paul Elovitz on the psychology of sports and David Lotto on vengeance. We are also planning a session on suicide and on suicidal terrorism.
CONFERENCES: The National and International Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) is having its annual conference on October 15, 2005 in New York City with the central theme being love and loss. “Psychoanalysis and the Stories of Our Lives: Memory, Narration, Discovery” is the theme of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) at its meeting on October 21-23, 2005 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “Psychoanalysis and Community” is the focus of the Association for Putting Psychoanalysis on the Couch (APCS) at its meeting on November 4-6, 2005 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. At the International Society for Political Society meetings in Toronto on July 2-6, 2005 David Beisel, Donald Carveth, Anna Geifman, Paul Elovitz, and Jacques Szaluta were among the presenters. (Next year’s ISPP will be in Barcelona on July 12-16, 2006.) At the June 8-10, 2005 International Political Psychology meetings at Fordham Law School the presenters included Forum members among the Forum members who presented were Herbert Barry III, David Beisel, Dan Dervin, Paul Elovitz, John Hartman, Richard Morrock, Denis O’Keefe, Lynn Somerstein, and Charles Strozier. (Next year’s IPA will meet on June 7-9 in New York City).
AWARDS: Congratulations to David S. Barry of Bradenton Florida on the award of his doctoral degree in psychology from Argus University and marriage. He has been nominated and received a Psychohistory Forum Young Scholar Award. (Some members may remember David attending several of our meetings in the 1990s.)
NOTES ON MEMBERS: Congratulations to Suzanne Adrion on being appointed to a full time-tenure-track position at Monroe Community College in Rochester New York. Herbert Barry spent part of June following in the steps of Charles Darwin in touring the Galapagos Islands. Dan Dervin will be spending September in Italy. On June 18th Alan Strachan taught a seminar on “Healing the American Psyche: George Bush, the War on Terror, and the Mythic Dimensions of American Identity.”
DEATHS: Norman Cantor, a distinguished medievalist and professor at NYU, Princeton, and Columbia universities who participated in our Group Process Symposium (December 2000), died of heart failure on September 14, 2004. He wrote of his life in Inventing Norman Cantor: Memoirs of a Medievalist (2002). Welcome to new member Donald Carveth.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry and Ralph Colp; Patrons David Beisel, Andrew Brink, Mary Lambert, Peter Loewenberg, David Lotto, and Shirley Stewart;
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Sustaining Member Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Rudolph Binion, David Felix, Jacqueline Paulson, Edryce Reynolds, the Shneidmans, and Hanna Turken; and Members Suzanne Adrion, Ben Brody, Goeffrey Cocks, Ted Goertzel, John Hartman, Margaret (Peggy) McLaughlin, Geraldine Pauling, Howard Stein, and Richard Weiss. Our thanks for thought provoking materials to David Beisel, Rudolph Binion, Geoffrey Cocks, David Felix, David James Fisher, Kenneth Fuchsman, Richard, Golsan, John Hellman, Samuel Kalman, Daniel Klenbort, Thomas Kohut, Valerie Massimo, Carl Pagter, Philip Pomper, Barry Shapiro, J. Lee Shneidman, Howard Stein, Jacques Szaluta, George Victor, Henry Winkler, and Robert Zaretsky. Our thanks to: Dick Booth and Bob Lentz for selective editing, Nancy Dobosiewicz for proofing/Publisher 2003 software application, Tom Ossa for proofing/researching/computer instruction, and to Gary Schmidt for editing/proofing. We wish to thank our numerous referees, who must remain anonymous.
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Call for Papers
Teaching and Learning Psychohistory, Political Psychology, and with Psychological Insight
Some possible approaches to this topic include:
- Your Experience Teaching Psychohistory/Psychobiography/Political Psychology/ or a
- Psychohistorical Component of a Course
- Learner Centered Pedagogy
- Case Studies of Learning and Teaching
- Teaching Theory and Theorists
- The Dynamics and Limits of Online Pedagogy
- Resistances in Learning Psychohistory
- The Psychology of Home Schooling
- Interviews on Teaching with Professor/Authors on Pedagogy: Beisel, Eichholz, Elovitz, Illick,
- Loewenberg, Renshon, Strozier, et al
- An Analysis and Survey of Current and Past
- Psychohistory Teaching
- A Pedagogical Bibliography & Collection of Syllabi
- Teaching Psychohistory Around the World
- Covering Controversial Issues
- Adult Education/Elderhostel Instruction
- Dual Teacher/Student Articles
- Your Experience Providing Psychological Insight
- into Subjects Such as Death and Dying, German
- History, the Holocaust, Presidential Personality,
- Trauma,/War/Peace/Conflict Resolution, and
- Women’s Studies
- Teaching the Eriksonian Life Cycle
- Psychoanalysis as a Teaching/Learning Experience
Length: 500-1500 words
are due October 1
Please Send an Abstract or Outline ASAP
All Articles Will be Refereed. These and Longer
Articles May be Used in a Book on the Subject
Contact: Paul H. 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
