Volume 15 Number 4March 2009

BULLETIN BOARD

CONFERENCES: The next scheduled Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Saturday Seminar will be March 28 when Ken Fuchsman, David Lotto, and others will present “About Soldiers, Stress, and Suicide: The Legacy of Violence and War.” The Psychohistory Forum has organized a panel at the 32^nd Annual International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) at Fordham Law School in Manhattan on June 10-12, 2009. The National Association for Psychoanalysis (NAAP) annual conference will be in Manhattan on October 17, 2009. The deadline for the NAAP’s 2008 Gradiva Awards is April 30. The July 13-17, 2009 International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) conference will be at Trinity College in Dublin.

PUBLICATIONS: Congratulations to

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Norman Simms on the December publication by Academic Studies Press of Marranos on the Moradas. Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States. Rudolph Binion’s book on traumatic reliving is scheduled to be published by Karnac in the summer of 2010.

NOTES ON MEMBERS: Richard (Dick) Booth recently retired from full-time teaching, while continuing as Adjunct Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland University College. He will return to the private practice of psychology, in addition to continuing to write and create continuing education courses for mental health professionals. Joseph Dorinson of Long Island University who is a well-known historian and humorist with a long association with psychohistory, under the auspices of the New York Council for the Humanities, is giving the lecture series, “Political Humor: A Look Back in Anger Mixed with Mirth.” Joseph A. Dowling, a Scottish-born member of our Board of Editors and emeritus professor of history at Lehigh University, is returning to live in Pennsylvania after spending four years in the university city of Leuven, Belgium. Flora Hogman’s “Adoption Traumas” was published online in February in the Trauma Psychology Newsletter of Division 56 of the American Psychological Association. In January she also presented at the United Nations Non-governmental Government (NGO) Organization Committee on Mental Health on “Overcoming Shame and Humiliation: The Hidden Legacy of Trauma.”

DEATHS: Henry Ebel (July 5, 1938-April 4, 2008), a prominent member of the Institute for Psychohistory in the 1970s, Editor of Behavior Today, an early member of the IPA, and a retired academic administrator at the University of Hartford and George Washington University, died as a consequence of numerous mini strokes which gave the appearance of Alzheimer’s Disease.

NEW MEMBERS: We welcome Andrea Fox.

CORRECTIONS: In the December 2008 issue Daniel Rancour-Laferriere’s name was misstated and in the last paragraph the German word “Hakenkreuz” was mistakenly spelled as “Hakendreuz.”

OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, David Beisel, David Lotto, Terence O’Leary,

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and Peter Petschauer; Sustaining Members Dick Booth, Judith Gardiner, Peter Petschauer, and Jacques Szaluta; Supporting Members Sander Breiner, Tom Ferraro, Jacqueline Paulson, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Lee Solomon, and Martin Quitt; Members Andrea Fox, Harry Keyishian, Marvin Leibowitz, Doris Pfeffer, and George Victor. Our special thanks for thought provoking materials to Jeffrey Berman, David Beisel, Sander Breiner, Don Carveth, Paul Elovitz, Tom Ferraro, Ken Fuchsman, Jane Goldberg, Lincolnn Grafhl, Jean Hantman, Irene Javors, Edmund Leites, Peter Petschauer, Vivian Rosenberg, Eli Sagan, and Jacques Szaluta. Our appreciation to Flora Hogman for hosting our January meeting. To Guest Editor Ken Fuchsman for the Love/Hate/Attachment Special Issue, Bob Lentz for editing and proofing, and Herbert Barry for proofreading. To Caitlin Adams for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2003 software application. Our special thanks to our numerous, overworked referees, who must remain anonymous.

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