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 15 Number 2September 2008
ISSN 1080-2622
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - PART II
- Seitler, B. N. (2008). A psychoanalyst’s ambivalence toward McCain and Obama. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 57-61. https://doi.org/10.70763/d828725179d622a56f951e527a966ed7
- Jhangiani, R., Cross, R., Frisch, S., Netchaeva, E., Legkaia, K., & Suedfeld, P. (2008). The values and integrative complexity of McCain and Obama. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 61-62. https://doi.org/10.70763/ee80e0a74aac64251238cecee2b066ca
- Goertzel, T. (2008). Leaders from broken homes: Obama, Clinton, Lula da Silva. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 62-64. https://doi.org/10.70763/5f7695debd8cde8db5abcb9f161b49ea
- Elovitz, P. H. (2008). Race in America and the 2008 election. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 64-66. https://doi.org/10.70763/234e5dc39dc52740524f9d863bec963c
- Bulkeley, K. (2008). Oneiric experience and rhetoric in Obama’s Dreams from My Father. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 57, 67-70. https://doi.org/10.70763/cc3f5463bc4d26bc38eadc8bcffbc654
- Elovitz, P. H. (2008). Obama’s dreams from and of his father. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 70-77. https://doi.org/10.70763/97de76211cd2efdefa4b8226e6cbf649
MONTAGUE ULLMAN MEMORIAL
- Gardiner, J., & Elovitz, P. H. (2008). Montague Ullman (1916-2008): Dream research pioneer [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 57, 77-80. https://doi.org/10.70763/d7c18718502a444a1a88227b0915de84
- Elovitz, P. H. (2008). A brilliant and playful listener to the unconscious [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 80-82. https://doi.org/10.70763/6804c9bca0a615bdb9374d00a9fcba59
- Potts, M. (2008). This “dream” man of firsts [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 82-83. https://doi.org/10.70763/35c1f9c50543aeedf1a3167bcb9d2756
- Krippner, S. (2008). A man for all seasons who changed my life [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 83-84. https://doi.org/10.70763/18c7c32f90d25fbe5c1b9ac0e8d5e475
- Van de Castle, R. (2008). Remembering Monte [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 84. https://doi.org/10.70763/0e230b1a582d76526b7ad7fc62ae937d
- Pannier, W. (2008). The healing power of dreams [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 85. https://doi.org/10.70763/41ccc97e4f1b5de999aa6468ff787d89
- Lotto, D. (2008). Monte Ullman as a teacher of dreams [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 85-86. https://doi.org/10.70763/aaea265a9054b3b8c5df99c64685ec2e
- Gilden, L. (2008). Ullman’s commitment to human connectedness [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 86. https://doi.org/10.70763/ae4503ec3da32f5e9033604744ec45ae
MISCELLENOUS ARTICLES
- Fuchsman, K. (2008). John F. Kennedy: Illness, war and mortality. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 57, 86-89. https://doi.org/10.70763/8cfef17bee2b7a75a3ce09d40b497f6b
BOOK REVIEWS
- Anderson, J. W. (2008). A masterful psychobiography of Voltaire [Review of the book Voltaire’s Tormented Soul: A Psychobiographic Inquiry by Alexander J. Nemeth (2008)]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 89-91. https://doi.org/10.70763/a267f936e54d7c10a2bb70dbe6ad7a89
- Barry, H. (2008). Reflections of an organizational consultant [Review of the book Insight and Imagination: A Study in Knowing and Not Knowing in Organizational Life by Howard F. Stein (2007)]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 91-92. https://doi.org/10.70763/fb6c4e0b4b90ebfb5a35ca7a9cbf1d16
- Binion, R. (2008). Bettelheim undeconstructed [Review of the book Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher (2008)]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 92-94. https://doi.org/10.70763/3488330ba18d83e3d0ab177178ca66eb
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Turken, H. (2008). Loving hate, paranoia, and the American dream [Letter to the editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 94-95. https://doi.org/10.70763/d69768b3da745b77e82cdbddcc8bac98
- Breiner, S. J. (2008). A psychoanalyst reflects on selecting a leader [Letter to the editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 95-96. https://doi.org/10.70763/4ef42b32bccc9485b10b8183507e5d82
- Langer, P. (2008). There is no “win” in Bush’s Iraq war [Letter to the editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 96-98. https://doi.org/10.70763/a2eab75e37ee14b3ed50bb2b74036617
- Goertzel, T. (2008). An unconvincing psychological theory [Letter to the editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 98-99. https://doi.org/10.70763/1fbcf885f8f5c9afc9f37188b3f00afc
- Araiba, S. (2008). Learning psychohistory in the U.S.A [Letter to the editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 99-101. https://doi.org/10.70763/b7f7ada7d848002260ee5eb7d8835709
MEMORIALS
- Elovitz, P. H. (2008). In memoriam: Otto Paul Pflanze [Memorial]. Clio’s Psyche, 15(2), 101. https://doi.org/10.70763/25048eb6a33209cb5a815bff0cf6887c
BULLETIN BOARD
CONFERENCES: The first scheduled 2008/2009 Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Saturday Seminar will be the election year meeting on November 1 on “Psychobiographical and Psychological Aspects of Election 2008” with presentations by Herbert Barry, Paul Elovitz, and a third psychohistorian. Some upcoming National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) conferences in New York City are on October 18 on “Listening in the Age of Google– Clinical Perspectives and Social Action” and on November 16 “The Future of Psychoanalytic Education: Innovation and Preservation.” The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) will be meeting at Rutgers on October 24-26 with a Forum sponsored panel on the presidency with presentations by David Beisel, Paul Elovitz, and Burt Seitler. The Boston November 21-23, 2008 International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) conference is on “Encounters and Escapes – Danger and Desires in Psychoanalytic Connection.” Among the members and associates of the Psychohistory Forum presenting at the 31st Annual International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) at Fordham Law School in Manhattan on June 2-4, 2008 were Florian Galler, David Lotto, Christine Silverstein, and Charles Strozier. At the IPA Herbert Barry, Paul Elovitz, and Dan Dervin presented at the Forum sponsored panel on the childhood and personality 2008 elec-
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tion candidates, while David Beisel, Ken Fuchsman, and Paul Elovitz presented at the Forum’s IPA panel of trauma. At the July 9-12, 2008 International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) at the Sciences Po in Paris Jacques Szaluta organized a psychohistorical panel with presentations by Bill Meyer and Forum members Peter Loewenberg, Christine Silverstein, and Jacques. At the scheduled ISPP Forum panel the presenters were Rudolph Binion, David Beisel, Paul Elovitz, Ken Fuchsman, and Jacques Szaluta as a commentator. Paul Elovitz was one of the more experienced scholars tapped by the ISPP for its excellent young scholar mentorship program.
NOTES ON MEMBERS: Congratulations to Ralph Colp on the publication of Darwin’s Illness (Florida University Press) and to to James (Jim) Anderson, who after nine years as Associate Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis, has been named Editor. Ruth Neubauer recently closed her Washington DC psychotherapy practice and is reopening it in Denver. Stanley Teitelbaum is working on his book Sports Scandals.
CORRECTIONS: The correct title of David James Fisher’s new book is Bettelheim: Living and Dying (NY: Rodopi Publications, 2008). DEATHS: We are saddened at the death on July 29th from cancer of our longtime member J. Lee Shneidman who hosted our Psychoanalytic Autobiography Reading and Research Group.
NEW MEMBERS: We welcome Susan Charney, Susan Gregory, and Jim Sherrier.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, David Lotto, and Terence O’Leary; Patrons David Beisel, Peter Loewenberg, and Shirley Stewart; Sustaining Members Dick Booth, Ken Fuchsman and Peter Petschauer; Supporting Members C. Fred Alford, Rudolph Binion, Andrew Brink, Susan Gregory, Mary Lambert, Hanna Turken, and Nancy Unger; Members Susan Adrion, Susan Charney, John Hartman, Peggy McLaughlin, Kenneth Rasmussen, Howard Stein, and Richard Weiss. Our special thanks for thought provoking materials to Jim Anderson, Sho Araiba, Herbert Barry, Rudolph Binion, Sander Breiner, Kelly Bulkeley, Ryan Cross, Paul Elovitz, Sverre Frisch, Kenneth Fuchsman, Judy Gardiner, Lloyd Gilden, Goertzel, Rajiv Jhangiani, Stanley Krippner, Philip
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Langer, Wendy Pannier, Mena Potts, Burton Seitler, Peter Suedfeld, Hanna Turken, and Bob Van de Castle. To Caitlin Adams for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2003 software application, Matthew Reed for editing and proofreading, and Leah Ryan for proofing.
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SD
Call for Papers
Review essays of texts on the psychoanalysis of love and hate
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 of 1000-1500 words (and one long piece) are welcome, as are additional suggestions.
Professor Ken Fuchsman at ken.fuchsman@uconn.edu.
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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 of 500-1500 words (and one long piece) are welcome.
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