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Volume 15 Number 1June 2008
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
SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
- Ferraro, T. (2008). Athletes on the couch. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.70763/203cb085a5c2c3faf8e4f60131817256
- Teitelbaum, S. H. (2008). Sports celebrity justice. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 6-8. https://doi.org/10.70763/71d2d6ccac82f8a334937ff0fcdc0d8a
- Dervin, D. (2008). Gladiators’ end. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 8-9. https://doi.org/10.70763/78b91366b15c399bd05530e96d28a530
- Anderson, P. (2008). NBA dress code: Changing behavior? Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 9-11. https://doi.org/10.70763/f4f0edb08c97567ce6b0475a63bf7000
- Klenbort, D. (2008). Norbert Elias on sports: The quest for excitement. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 11-13. https://doi.org/10.70763/d0f5722f11a0cc839fa2ca6ea49d8585
- Barry, H. III. (2008). Sources of success in sports. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.70763/48fbab00052197bc8bd943498b89dd71
- Pyles, R. (2008). Psychoanalytic consultation in sports. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 13-16. https://doi.org/10.70763/754c32eb39c6dfd8b7c97531a459937c
- Abrams, A. (2008). Baseball as the national pastime. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 16-19. https://doi.org/10.70763/bee3d07327a21d8e7f02e10ba4b35c15
- Elovitz, P. H. (2008). Child abuse and baseball: Torre and Steinbrenner. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 19-23. https://doi.org/10.70763/8db1d4a631a6e9a24e2c0e842e1f1772
- Dervin, D. (2008). Gender benders in women’s tennis. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 1, 23-26. https://doi.org/10.70763/6f6d7ea73f8b34354a3ecc69f872abfd
- Sarje, A. (2008). Gymnastics and Finnish female body image and identity. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 26-27. https://doi.org/10.70763/9219adc5c42107c4911e249155320648
- Illick, J. (2008). My sporting life. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 27-28. https://doi.org/10.70763/06563f3b418fe57f8fc331872343ce44
- Boyanowsky, E. (2008). The quest of the hunter-gatherer. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 28-30. https://doi.org/10.70763/337cd73a31464dd4adfc3c5dbc356cd0
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- Binion, R. (2008). The politics of trauma: Iraq as Vietnam. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 1, 30-33. https://doi.org/10.70763/675be3930765f553975c0b140bbf0863
- Elovitz, P. H. (2008). Fred I. Greenstein: Princeton political psychologist [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 1, 33-38. https://doi.org/10.70763/9b2e035e5362c96aea4c28083f02d6ff
FILM REVIEWS
- Jeansonne, G., & Luhrssen, D. (2008). The passion of Mel Gibson [Review of the film The Passion of Christ directed by Mel Gibson (2004)]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 1, 39-40. https://doi.org/10.70763/d7e4cdde82a894b8f633e6d61a01ef15
BOOK REVIEWS
- Fuchsman, K. (2008). Makari’s history of psychoanalysis [Review of the book Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari (2008)]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 41-43. https://doi.org/10.70763/297018ebde10e3024ac70a8120a2c82c
- Javors, I. (2008). The death of Susan Sontag [Review of the book Swimming in a Sea of Death, A Son’s Memoir by David Rieff (2008)]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 43-45. https://doi.org/10.70763/2d13dd919b0ec4519c4a0967c4c7cd47
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Grahlfs, F. L. (2008). Responses to the aging special issue: I’m not old; I was just born a long time ago [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 45-46. https://doi.org/10.70763/ae5eb824ef87499f644c3f11a7176157
- Wilson, N. (2008). Denial and childhood fantasies of aging and death [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 46-47. https://doi.org/10.70763/887caadc3642e304ede659b734f79b00
- Eisenstadt, M. (2008). Reflections on aging [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 47. https://doi.org/10.70763/b24d21019de5e59da180f1661904f49a
- Unger, N. C. (2008). Gender, race, and money in the election [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 47-48. https://doi.org/10.70763/f900afc719d7d86bd7d17b9d3be0aafe
- Dorinson, J. (2008). Jews and baseball [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 48-51. https://doi.org/10.70763/4d386d01419c083e8df5de53eb5a0254
MEMORIALS
- Lawton, H. (2008). Remembering Norman Cohn [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(1), 51-53. https://doi.org/10.70763/c34a7191f6e9948068b83e7179ea3da8
BULLETIN BOARD
CONFERENCES: The next Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Saturday Seminar will be on fall election year meeting on “Psychobiographical and Psychological Aspects of Election 2008 with presentations by Herbert Barry, Paul Elovitz, and a third psychohistorian. The 31st Annual International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) will be held at Fordham Law School in Manhattan on June 2-4, 2008 with the Forum sponsoring panels on the 2008 election candidates and trauma. The next International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) conference will be held on July 9-12, 2008 at the Sciences Po in Paris with a Forum sponsored meeting, “Trauma, War, and Disillusionment.” Following that the 2009 ISPP conference will be in Dublin at Trinity College and the 2010 in San Francisco. The 8th Annual Childhood and Society Symposium on “The Sexualization of Childhood” will be held on June 13-14, 2008 at Point Park University.
NOTES ON MEMBERS AND PUBLICATIONS: Congratulations to David James Fisher on the publication of My Bettelheim: Living and Dying (NY: Rodopi Publications, 2008) in Rodopi’s Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies.
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Hanna Turken presented “The Object Seeking Role of Hate, Anger and Violence: The Case of Mr. V and the Transitional, Transformative Role of the Therapist” on March 29 at the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI). On May 23 Robert Quackenbush presented “The Use of Psychoanalytic Techniques with Children and Adolescents,” at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Nadra Hashim has been appointed as an adjunct professor at Mid-Continent University in Kentucky. Our thoughts are with Ralph Colp, Mary Lambert, and Lee Shneidman, who are all struggling with illness. We welcome new members Willa Bernhard, Daniel Gold, Nadra Hashim, Lorraine O’Brien, Nora O’Brien, Lauren O’Keefe, and Terence O’Leary.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, Ralph Colp, David Lotto, and Terence O’Leary; Patrons David Beisel, Peter Loewenberg, and Shirley Stewart; Sustaining Members Ken Fuchsman and Lee (and the late Connalee) Shneidman; Supporting Members C. Fred Alford, Willa Bernhard, Andrew Brink, David James Fisher, John Hartman, Mary Lambert, Lauren O’Leary, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Hanna Turken, and Nancy Unger; and Members Bob Anderson, Ted Goertzel, Daniel Gold, Bob Lentz, Alexander J. Nemeth, Denis O’Keefe, Doris Pfeffer, Charles Strozier, Howard Stein, and George Victor. Our special thanks for thought-provoking materials to Andy Abrams, Peter Anderson, Herbert Barry III, Rudolph Binion, Ehor Boyanowsky, Daniel Dervin, Joe Dorinson, Marvin Eisenstadt, Paul Elovitz, Tom Ferraro, Kenneth Fuchsman, F. Lincoln Grahlfs, Joe Illick, Irene Javors, Glen Jeansonne, Daniel Klenbort, Henry Lawton, Dave Luhrssen, Robert Pyles, Aino Sarje, Stanley Teitelbaum, Nancy Unger, and Neil Wilson. To Caitlin Adams for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2003 software application as well as to Matthew Reed for editing and proofreading. Our special thanks to Bob Lentz, Guest Editor for the Sports Psychology Special Issue, and our numerous, overworked referees, who must remain anonymous.
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Call for Papers
The Psychology and Experience of Facing Death and Dying
Deadline: October 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 are welcome. Contact Editor
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Call for Papers
Psychoanalysis of Love and Hate: A Retrospective
Review essays of texts on the psychoanalysis of love and hate
Special Issue, March 2009
Special Issue, March 2009
Some possible texts to be reviewed include:
- Sigmund Freud – Psychology of Love
- Ian Suttie – Origins of Love and Hate
- Melanie Klein & Joan Riviere – Love, Hate & Reparation
- Erich Fromm – The Art of Loving
- Theodor Reik – Of Love and Lust
- Michael Balint – Primary Love and Psychoanalytic Technique
- Rollo May – Love and Will
- Reuben Fine – The Meaning of Love in Human Experience
- Jessica Benjamin – Bonds of Love
- Ethel S. Person – Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters
- Jonathan Lear – Love and Its Place in Nature
- Martin Bergmann – The Anatomy of Loving
- Jane Goldberg – The Dark Side of Love
- Otto Kernberg – Love Relations
- Ilham Dilman – Love: Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes
- Stephen A. Mitchell – Can Love Last?
- David Mann (editor) – Love and Hate
- Andre Green & Gregorio Kohon – Love and Its Vicissitudes
- Mario Mikulincer & Gail Goodman (editors) – Dynamics of Romantic Love
- Joseph Lichtenberg – Sensuality and Sexuality across the Divide of Shame
- Leo Bersani & Adam Phillips. – Intimacies
Articles are welcome, as are additional suggestions.
Professor Ken Fuchsman at
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Call for Papers
The Psychology of Election 2008
Deadline: July 15, 2008
Some possible psychological approaches include:
- Psychobiography of Obama, McClain,
Clinton, and Nader
- Is McCain Really a Maverick?
- Change and Hope in Obama’s Thought
- How the World Views the Election
- Race and Gender in the Election
- Cycles in American Politics
- Spouses in the Election
- Psychoeconomic Aspects of the Election
- The Role of the Internet
- Generational Divides in Politics
- Psychology of Independent Voters
- Media and the Election
- Choosing the Vice President
- Reviews of Candidate Books.
Articles are welcome. An Abstract, Outline,
or Draft Copy is Preferred ASAP
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