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 14 Number 1-2June-September 2007
ISSN 1080-2622
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Fuchsman, K. (2007). The psychohistory of atrocity in guerilla and civil wars. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.70763/9079ea527e08a24dfad44e3302d5f091
- Lotto, D. (2007). Reflections on Ken Fuchsman’s discussion of atrocity. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 7-8. https://doi.org/10.70763/3a077e8acfc4a2b463c47f2125fdfac5
- Langer, P., & Pois, R. (2007). The psychological roots of Bush’s Iraq War obstinacy. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 8-10. https://doi.org/10.70763/b5200c6107fc3d41d19a2b66835c3974
- Greenberg, D. (2007). The intertwined lives and psyches of Richard Nixon and Alger Hiss. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 1, 11-14. https://doi.org/10.70763/95424358822e753eb993c97ee76a9076
FEATURED SCHOLAR INTERVIEW
- Alford, C. F. (2007). James M. Glass: Listener, teacher, and scholar of psychosis [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 14-20. https://doi.org/10.70763/e8e5f71237c3b05761cda9e029a5b3d2
MEETING REPORT
- Elovitz, P. H. (2007). Jefferson without idealization [Meeting Report]. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 1, 20-24. https://doi.org/10.70763/b1adda14824f50ef24ff1c05bb66faf3
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Dervin, D. (2007). Probing the Don Imus media event. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 24-25. https://doi.org/10.70763/ec26fc2eb2b75aece19c70392dc744c2
- Beisel, D. R. (2007). Thirty years of the International Psychohistorical Association. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 25-28. https://doi.org/10.70763/35fa44c247164c5e1683d18000b0a236
- Elovitz, P. H. (2007). Organizing international psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 28-30. https://doi.org/10.70763/6d1e481bdcf159961818823e652a7725
BOOK REVIEWS
- Rappoport, L. (2007). The heroic myth and impact of Erik Erikson [Review of the book Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics, and Evolution by Daniel Burston (2005)]. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 31-33. https://doi.org/10.70763/023d0a5671efd29e80b4deef8262e297
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Hogman, F. (2007). Facing history and Holocaust education [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 33. https://doi.org/10.70763/cb7c403aa312160380010ee3dd4bfc53
MEMORIALS
- Fogelman, E., & Elovitz, P. (2007). In memoriam: Issac Zeiman [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 14(1-2), 33-36. https://doi.org/10.70763/3ae4f12b897c4bb51327a8e1c921df7d
BULLETIN BOARD
CONFERENCES: The next Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Saturday Seminar will be on September 29, 2007 when Paul Elovitz will present “Presidential Responses to National Trauma: Bush, Carter, and Nixon.” The International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) will hold its interdisciplinary conference, “The Reach of the Mind,” at the Toronto Renaissance Hotel Downtown on October 19-21. The 31st Annual International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) will be held in Manhattan in early June, 2008. The 30th Annual IPA meetings was held in Manhattan on June 6-8, 2007 with Ken Fuchsman and Paul Elovitz presenting at the Forum sponsored panel, “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma and Postwar Decision Making.” The 2008 International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) conference will be held on July 9-12, 2008 at the Sciences Po in Paris. Following that the 2009 conference will be in Dublin at Trinity College and the 2010 at the Mark Hopkins Hospital in San Francisco. The 30th annual meetings of ISPP was held in Portland Oregon on July 3-6, 2007 with David Beisel, Paul Elovitz, and Ken Fuchsman presented in a Forum sponsored session on trauma, as did Aubrey Immelman in another panel. The conference, “Humanistic Psychotherapies for the 21st Century,” cosponsored by the Saybrook Graduate School was held on August 14-16, 2007 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott.
PUBLICATIONS: Congratulations to Jacques Szaluta on the republication of his enlarged March 2006 Clio’s Psyche teaching article in the Spring 2007 issue of the widely distributed Kings Pointer as “Methods and Challenges in Teaching Psychohistory.” To Sophia Richman on the publication of a Greek translation of her 2002 memoir, A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust. To purchase Peter Petschauer’s Der Vater und die SS (The Father and the SS) e-mail .
NOTES: Daniel Burstein’s Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics and Evolution (Jason Aronson, 2007) has been nominated for the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis’ 11th Annual Gradiva Award for best book in the “History and Theory of Psychoanalysis” category. The winner will be announced in October. On June 4-7 Herbert Barry was in Boston celebrating the 55th anniversary of his graduation from Harvard in 1952. Anna Geifman has received the Lady Davis Fellowship in Israel and will be a visiting professor at Hebrew University and will be working on a new conceptual book on the psychology of modern terrorism. She will also be teaching a course on the psychohistory of the Russian Revolution in the first semester and in the second hopes also to lecture at the University of Bar Ilan.
DEATHS: Ben Brody, a psychologist/psychoanalyst and longtime member of the Psychohistory Forum died at age 87 on June 17th after a struggle with cancer. David Felix will be writing a memorial for these pages. Isaac Zieman died at age 86 on April 2. His obituary may be found on page 33.
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 Lee (and the late Connalee) Shneidman; Sustaining Members Andrew Brink, Peter Petschauer, and Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Fred Alford, Dick Booth, Gilbert Frederick, Rudolph Binion, David Felix, Dominic and Mena Potts, Edryce Reynolds, and Lee Solomon; and Members Ted Goertzel, Irene Javors, Bob Lentz, Richard Morrock, Doris Pfeiffer, Vivian Rosenberg, Howard Stein, Chuck Strozier, and Nancy Unger. Our appreciation to Forum hosts Mary Lambert and Lee Shneidman. Our special thanks for thought provoking materials to Fred Alford, Dan Dervin, Paul Elovitz, Eva Fogelman, Ken Fuchsman, Jim Glass, David Greenberg, Flora Hogman, Philip Langer, David Lotto, Bob Pois, and Leon Rappoport. To Colonial historians Karen O’Brien and Martin Quitt for consulting on Thomas Jefferson. To Cathryn Davis for proofing/editing/Publisher 2003 software application. We wish to thank our numerous referees, who must remain anonymous.
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Call for Papers
The Psychology, Experience, and the Art of Aging
Deadline: October 10, 2007
Some possible approaches include:
- Fantasies and realities of the “golden years”
- Changing self-image, body image, and identity
- Coping with disease, dependency, mental and physical decline: the fear of Alzheimer’s
- The search for eternal youth
- The humor of old age and retirement
- Facing narcissistic blows and loss
- Marginalization and infantilization
- Case studies of the aging of famous people
- Intergenerational connections in aging
- Case studies from hospice workers, therapists, and thanatologists
- The impact of small families and geographic dispersion
- Facing the prospect of death
Articles of 500-1500 words (and one long piece) are welcome. Go to our website for a detailed Call for Papers. Cliospsyche.org
Write
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Clio’s Psyche Call for Papers
Presidential Candidates 2008
Papers to be submitted by October 10th for the December 2007 issue
Dear Colleague,
With the 2008 presidential race wide open for both Democrats and Republicans there is a very large field of candidates and an extraordinary amount of interest in the election. This attention is compounded by intense feelings about the war in Iraq and the move to an early selection of the nominees by moving up the primaries to February in major states such as California and New York. The “money race” is so intense that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama together raised over 50 million dollars by the beginning of April 2007. Right now the media is focusing on them as well as John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Mitt Romney – and maybe-candidates, Al Gore and Fred Thompson. Ethnicity, gender, race, and religion are some of the unusual variety of issues in the primaries. Internet fundraising and the blogosphere are newer, unpredictable influences on the election.
We would like to invite you and other colleagues to probe the subject for the December 2007 issue of Clio’s Psyche: Understanding the ‘Why’ of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society. We welcome different types of submissions, including case studies, with psychological insights on a variety of aspects of the election such as:
Dear Colleague,
With the 2008 presidential race wide open for both Democrats and Republicans there is a very large field of candidates and an extraordinary amount of interest in the election. This attention is compounded by intense feelings about the war in Iraq and the move to an early selection of the nominees by moving up the primaries to February in major states such as California and New York. The “money race” is so intense that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama together raised over 50 million dollars by the beginning of April 2007. Right now the media is focusing on them as well as John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Mitt Romney – and maybe-candidates, Al Gore and Fred Thompson. Ethnicity, gender, race, and religion are some of the unusual variety of issues in the primaries. Internet fundraising and the blogosphere are newer, unpredictable influences on the election.
We would like to invite you and other colleagues to probe the subject for the December 2007 issue of Clio’s Psyche: Understanding the ‘Why’ of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society. We welcome different types of submissions, including case studies, with psychological insights on a variety of aspects of the election such as:
- Psychobiographical sketches of Clinton, Edwards, Giuliani, Gore, McCain, Obama, Richardson, Romney, and Thompson
- The narcissism of minor differences: hopes and fears for a woman or a racially or ethnically different presidential candidate
- The relationship between the leader and the led in the 2008 election
- Comparing the impacts of Vietnam and Iraq on presidential politics
- Politics as a family/father-son affair: Bushes, Clintons, Gores, and Romneys
- “Half” perhaps more acceptable than whole?—Obama: black father and white mother; Richardson: Mexican mother and American father
- Religion in the campaign: Romney (Mormon), Huckabee (Baptist minister)
- Which candidate(s) can break through political denial on issues such as Iraq, civil liberty abuses, debt, social security, health care, dependence on oil, and global warming
- Life imitating entertainment “art”? —on “West Wing,” a Hispanic president; on “Commander in Chief,” a woman; and on “24,” two African Americans
- Nostalgia for Bill Clinton and his relationship with Hillary
- Perils of verbal (and non-verbal) slips along the campaign trail – for example, George Romney’s 1968 “brainwashing” on Vietnam comment; why the media forgives some but not others
- Cycles in American politics
- The mood of the voters—the energized and the stay-at-home non-voters
- Psychobiographical insights from candidates’ books and autobiographies
We are seeking articles from 500-1500 words—including your brief biography—by October 10 for our December issue. Expressions of interest and preferably an abstract or outline prior to September 20 are requested to be sent to our Guest Editor for this Special Issue, Bob Lentz, at . Articles should be e-mailed as attached Microsoft Word documents or rich text format (*.rtf) files. Submissions the editors deem suitable are anonymously refereed. Visit our Web site at www.cliospsyche.org.
Sincerely yours,
Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, Historian, Psychoanalyst, Professor, and Editor, Clio’s Psyche
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Call for Papers
The Psychology and Experience of Facing Death and Dying
Deadline: January 15, 2008
Some possible approaches include:
- What constitutes a “good death?”
- The denial of death
- How people prepare to die
- Stages in the process of dying
- The humor of death and dying
- Responses to the death of a loved one
- The treatment of death by the family, professionals, and society
- Intergenerational psychodynamics in facing death and dying and its aftermath
- Death in the cinema — the films of Ingmar Bergman and others
- Case studies of the death of famous people such as Churchill, Freud, and Jefferson
- The deification in death of Princess Diana, Elvis Presley, et al.
- Responses to the death of the hero or tyrant
- Psychological insights on death in literature
- Suicide and assisted suicide
- Suicide in war and terrorism
- Cross cultural approaches to death and dying
- How victims of the Holocaust and other genocides deal with death in their lives
- Case studies from hospice workers, therapists, and thanatologists
- The body after death: autopsy, burial, cremation, and various death rituals
- Reviews of books on death by Nuland, et. al.
Articles of 500-1500 words (and one long piece) are welcome. Go to our website for a detailed Call for Papers.
Cliospsyche.org
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