Volume 16 Number 1June 2009

Call for Papers

The Psychology of Heroes, Role Models, and Mentors

Psychological Insights on Numerous Topics Including:

• What constitutes a role model, hero, and mentor?
• Your important role models and how they influenced you?
• Heroes and role models as keys to an individual’s idealized self
• Athletic, Hollywood, television, and other celebrity role models
• The psychological differentiation of admired others and role models
• Idealization and denigration in selecting heroes, role models, mentors, and anti-heroes at different stages of life
• The psychology of identifying with millennial leaders & movements
• Fallen heroes: the psychological cathexis among former true believers, such as communists and cultists. The role of anti-heroes
• Role models up close and at a distance
• The psychology and complexities of mentorship: case studies
• A review in the light of current knowledge of Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History and his other writings on heroes and hero worship
• Cartoon, comic book, and animated movie heroes
• Presidents as role models
• The effectiveness of mentorship programs for inner-city children
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• Comparing the heroes and role models of war and peacetime
• Reviews of the scholarly literature on role models and mentors

Deadline: January 10, 2010

Length: 500-1500 words (and two long ones)

Articles are welcome, as are additional suggestions.

Contact: Co-Editors Peter Petschauer at

or Paul Elovitz at

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Call for Papers

Psychology of Health Care and Reform

• – Anxiety and fear at the idea of health reform
• – Comparing medical and patient responses to Canadian and
  European and the U.S. systems
• – Why the American healthcare system is in some ways the best
  and the worst major system
• – Ambivalence regarding health care services as a right and a
  responsibility
• – Managed care’s rhetoric and reality
• – Privatization and innovation in health care
• – Legal aspects of health care and its reform
• – Obama’s health care proposals and prospects for success
• – The economics and politics of health reform
• – Prenatal and baby care
• – Hospice and other end of life care
• – Assisted suicide struggles
• – Legal and illegal drugs
• – Health classification and self-identity: mental illness,
  hyperactivity and so forth
• – The role of psychoanalysis in health care systems
• – Probing the psychobiographies of leading health care leaders
  and innovators
• Articles of 500-1500 words (and two long pieces) are welcome
  Contact Paul Elovitz at

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Call for Papers

The Psychology of Remembering 9/11: The Uses and Abuses of Trauma

Psychological Insights on Various Topics Including:

• Emotional responses: case studies of shock, fear, anger, hatred, humiliation
• The anthrax scare and other hysterias; possible “Swine Flu” comparisons
• The rituals and processes of mourning, healing, and (perhaps even) closure
• Use by the Bush administration of public feelings of victimization/entitlement
• The public’s association of Saddam Hussein with Osama bin Laden
• Demonizing and pathologizing the enemy by academics, prison guards, etc.
• Psychology of terrorist organizations and individuals
• The impact of terrorism on children, survivors, and family members
• The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: money for loss
• Nightmares and daydreams of terrorism
• The world’s initial and subsequent responses to terrorism against America
• America’s response to terrorist attacks in Spain, England, Indonesia, etc.
• Fear and bravado in the wake of the April 2009 Air Force One flyover
• Identification with the victims of terrorism and treatment of the victims
• Comparing/contrasting responses to airborne terrorism with ground terrorism
• Suicide bombing, “martyrdom operations,” & terrorists as “freedom fighters”
• The weakening of civil liberties and the struggle to restore them
• How 9/11 impacted fictional terrorism found on film, the Internet, and TV
• Cycles of terrorism throughout history
• Comparing Presidents Bush and Obama in the struggle against terrorism
• Personal accounts of how terrorism changed lives
• Reviews of books on suicide bombers, terrorism, war on terrorism, etc.

Deadline: July 10, 2009

Length: 500-1500 words (and two long pieces)

Articles are welcome, as are additional suggestions.

Contact: Paul H. Elovitz, Editor at

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