THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFRONTING DEATH AND DYING: IMPACT OF DEATH ON THE FAMILY

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFRONTING DEATH AND DYING: CHOICES IN DYING

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFRONTING DEATH AND DYING: FANTASIES OF DEATH

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFRONTING DEATH AND DYING: DEATH ANXIETY AND THREATS

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFRONTING DEATH AND DYING: FACING AND DREAMING OF CANCER

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFRONTING DEATH AND DYING: DEATH, HISTORY, AND RESURRECTION

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFRONTING DEATH AND DYING: GUILT, FEAR OF THE DEAD, AND BURIAL THE CIVIL WAR’S CHALLENGE

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BULLETIN BOARD

CONFERENCES: The next scheduled Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Saturday Seminar will be January 31 when Irene Javors and Cassandra Langer will present “A Psychobiography of the Expatriate American Painter Romaine Brooks.” The Psychohistory Forum will organize a panel at the 32nd Annual International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) at Fordham Law School in Manhattan on June 10-12, 2009. Presentation proposals are still being accepted. The July 13-17, 2009 International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) conference will be at Trinity College in Dublin.

NOTES ON MEMBERS: We are saddened at the death on October 11 of our Editorial Board and devoted Psychohistorical Forum member Ralph Colp from prostate cancer, whose memorial starts on page 105. We welcome new members Kelly Bulkeley, Tom Ferraro, Judith Gardner, and Martin Quitt.

OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, David Lotto, Terence O’Leary, and Peter Petschauer; Patrons David Beisel, Peter Loewenberg, and Shirley Stewart; Sustaining Members Dick Booth, Ken Fuchsman and Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Eva Fogelman, Susan Gregory, Dom and Mena Potts, Martin Quitt, Hanna Turken, Jim Sherrier, and Nancy Unger; Members Kelly Bulkeley, Susan Charney, Geoffrey Cocks, Tom Ferraro, Flora Hogman, Michael Isaacs, Irene Javors, Glen Jeansonne, Roberta Rubin, and Victor Wolfenstein. Our special thanks for thought-provoking materials to Herbert Barry, David Beisel, Jeff Berman, Sander Breiner, carolyn and George Brown, Marilyn Charles, Paul Elovitz, Tom Ferraro, Eva Fogelman, Anna Geifman, Tom Gibbs, Judith Harris, Andrea Fox, Juhani Ihanus, Emily Jaffe, Irene Javors, Glen Jeansonne, Devon Charles King, David Luhrssen, Sarah MacMillen, Elise Miller, James (Jim) Moore, Ruth Neubauer, Wendy Pannier, Peter Petschauer, Jerry Piven, Margery Quackenbush, Martin Quitt, Matthew Reed, Daniel Rancour-Lafferriere, and Norman Simms. To Caitlin Adams for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2003 software application, and to Matthew Reed for some editing. Our special thanks to our numerous, overworked referees, who must remain anonymous.

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Call for Papers

Special Feature, March 2009

Psychological insights on:

  • Greed and fear, mania and panic in economics
  • The “collective delusion” of the housing bubble
  • Psychological and economic depression compared
  • Rhetoric and reality in capitalism
  • Psychobiographical sketches of economic leaders
  • The “creative destruction” of capitalism
  • The role of narcissism in economics
  • Why can’t consumers save in America?
  • Parasitic capitalism in post-Soviet Russia
  • State and private capitalism in communist China
  • Globalizing economic and fiscal crisis
  • Resistance to psychoeconomics by economists
  • Reviews of books and films on economics, including Greenspan’s Age of Turbulence

Deadline: January 15, 2009

Articles of 1500 words (and two long pieces) are welcome.

Contact: Guest Co-Editor Bob Lentz at or Paul Elovitz at

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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

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

Deadline: January 10, 2009

Articles of 1000-1500 words (and one long piece) are welcome, as are additional suggestions.

Contact: Guest Editor

Professor Ken Fuchsman at

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