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Volume 17 Number 4March 2011
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 • Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut • Glen Jeansonne, PhD University of Wisconsin • Bob Lentz • Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA • Peter Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University
FUCHSMAN SYMPOSIUM ON THE CHANGING FAMILY SINCE 1960
- Fuchsman, K. (2011). The family romance transformed: American domestic arrangements since 1960. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 275-285. https://doi.org/10.70763/73d915c91b99b170993ea97d875a6330
- Dervin, D., & Fuchsman, K. (2011). An exchange on Freud and the family romance. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 285-287. https://doi.org/10.70763/358f9e7be09177c17d0d17ff73584307
- Britton, M. (2011). Therapy and the rearrangement of domestic life. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 287-290. https://doi.org/10.70763/90fd4f88f588ae64038134f1eeaa023f
- Elovitz, P. H. (2011). Fuchsman and the retreat from marriage and parenthood. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 290-293. https://doi.org/10.70763/5a9542c773018268fc6271f7afeea969
- Kramp, J. M. (2011). The effects on children. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 293-295. https://doi.org/10.70763/f5ac21cd0ef1b88e9848571aeb53551a
- Cohen, F. (2011). The importance of family economics. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 295-297. https://doi.org/10.70763/6e66329891cbb9adb1966e44379cfadf
- Carveth, D. (2011). Consumer capitalism: Removing impediments to oral-narcissistic pleasure. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 298-300. https://doi.org/10.70763/91bc333f6967019ac47b49ca0f2fa757
- Marvasti, J. A., & Dadlez, N. M. (2011). U.S. military families: Unrecognized casualties of modern warfare. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 300-303. https://doi.org/10.70763/48f7d3043bc03e6c48a6f0ebc0f258a8
- Fuchsman, K. (2011). Family permutations reconsidered. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 303-308. https://doi.org/10.70763/2c26f9a59b0ba61233e6fc0af8e47f14
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS/PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FAMILY
- Fogelman, E., & Sullivan, P. (2011). Through a lens darkly: Transference in today’s marriage. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 308-311. https://doi.org/10.70763/03a3655fff3e9bdea48de9f49e938e32
- Ferraro, T. (2011). The family life of the artist and the cost of fame. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 312-315. https://doi.org/10.70763/6a6610feab86a1f294dbbf5855c74af9
- Markowitz, J. (2011). The decline of marriage due to psychosexual motivations. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 315-317. https://doi.org/10.70763/91a4d5c9c78d0de89b38ff408f49f39c
- Petschauer, P. (2011). Husbands and wives: Men and nymphs. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 317-321. https://doi.org/10.70763/173f0f6bb0ee97cf5098f73ee94029d4
- Falk, A. (2011). Mr. Mom and Mrs. Breadwinner: A personal account. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 321-324. https://doi.org/10.70763/9f93557d309f655ff06f109a08dcf7c4
- Oles, P. (2011). Back to the future: Three-generation families in a changing economy. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 324-327. https://doi.org/10.70763/4eff0720836a198b6174eecf02cbfdbf
- Mohl, A. (2011). Two streams of polygamy in America. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 328-331. https://doi.org/10.70763/7a0c1035bcb33b6d86942ecbedb37267
- Boyanowsky, E., & Boyanowsky, A. (2011). Family crises and healing by nature. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 331-334. https://doi.org/10.70763/3f1656d9668dffcf8119e3ecff873558
- Alford, C. F. (2011). Obama and the hatred of thought. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 334-339. https://doi.org/10.70763/250b164d84ea39a488422da8500786e6
- Petschauer, P. (2011). All war deaths and suffering are memorable. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 339-343. https://doi.org/10.70763/9a0ee0a9e7a42d2d69b8f86b3a0756b1
BOOK REVIEWS
- Gonen, J. Y. (2011). Binion’s masterpiece [Review of the book Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film by Rudolph Binion (2010)]. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 344-346. https://doi.org/10.70763/2406a0a94c80406914ff2f6c9fdd67d5
- Pomper, P. (2011). The revolutionary Russian origins of modern terrorism [Review of the book Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia by Anna Geifman (2010)]. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 346-348. https://doi.org/10.70763/9e95248d9b714a96f47fd159b4c6e911
- Ihanus, J. (2011). A family history of Russian revolutionary terrorists [Review of the book Lenin’s Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution by Philip Pomper (2010)]. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 348-352. https://doi.org/10.70763/d324a0cc02881779dcda44a675fdcaaa
- Summers, F. (2011). Latin American states of terror, psychoanalysis, and the U.S [Review of the book Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas by Nancy Hollander (2010)]. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 352-355. https://doi.org/10.70763/878a0658e652765c4979dba411787e43
- Fuchsman, K. (2010). Obama the conciliator [Reviews of the books The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick (2010), Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg (2011), and Changing Times: The Life of Barack Obama by Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen (2009)]. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 355-359. https://doi.org/10.70763/ae0e08163d22befd4635f47bef1b6e3f
- Elovitz, P. H. (2011). The Riddle of Avner Falk’s Obama [Review of the book The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography by Avner Falk (2010)]. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 359-362. https://doi.org/10.70763/4ffb0d2ba92f664c2281970110a2e071
- Szaluta, J. (2011). Spector’s flawed study of American innocence [Review of the book Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth of American Innocence by Barry Spector (2010)]. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 362-365. https://doi.org/10.70763/a5fdfa672284da6bf4f4326e2b3698bd
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Molofsky, M. (2011). Reflections on anti-Semitism [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 367-368. https://doi.org/10.70763/6aadca7bd86c4743e6724f9607256126
BULLETIN BOARD
CONFERENCES: In April the next Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Seminar will be the Psychology and Foreign Policy of American Exceptionalism with Paul Elovitz presenting. Papers and invitations will be mailed to Forum members. On March 25-27, 2011 in Olso, the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society is sponsored the conference, “Psychoanalysis and Politics: Nationalism and the Body Politic.” On April 13-17, Division 39 on Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association (APA) will be having its meeting in Manhattan at the Park Sheridan Hotel. The International Psychohistorical Association’s (IPA) next meeting is on June 8-10, 2011 at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University. On July 7-10, 2011, the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) is holding its annual conference in Istanbul. The International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) will be holding its next meeting on November 11-13, 2011 at the Lago Mar Resort in Fort Lauderdale (http://www.ifpe.org/ conference.html).
PUBLICATIONS: Glen Jeansonne, David Luhrssen, and Dan Sokolovic announced their new book, Elvis Presley: Reluctant Rebel, which will be available February 28, 2011 (ABC/CLIO-Praeger, $44.95 hardback). Signed discount copies may be obtained by writing the author at gsj@uwm.edu. The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments, written by Stanley Milgram and edited by Tom Blass, was published by Pinter & Martin Ltd. on August 31, 2010.
NOTES ON MEMBERS: Professors Andrew and Louis Marvick have established a website with the last work of their late mother, Elizabeth Wirth Marvick (1925-2005). It is entitled Washington, Jefferson, and Madison: Family Experience and Personality in the Lives of Three Virginian Founding Fathers. A Featured Scholar Interview of this distinguished psychohistorian may be found in the June 2002 issue of this journal and a memorial in the March 2006 issue. Irene Javors celebrated the publication of her book, Culture Notes: Essays on Sane Living, with a Coming Out (book) Party in January in Manhattan. Congratulations to Denis O’Keefe on the birth of Chloe Violet on December 1, 2010. Joseph M. Kramp passed his comprehensive exams with distinction and earned a Master of Philosophy as well as a graduate certificate in gender and sexuality. In
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the fall Norman Simms (nsimms@waikato.ac.nz) of New Zealand would like to house-sit or house swap with someone from metropolitan New York.
MODERATING: Our appreciation to Jacques Szaluta for moderating some sessions. We welcome new members George Brown, Alice Maher, and Philip Pomper.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, David Beisel, David Lotto, and Peter Petschauer; Patrons Peter Loewenberg, Alice Maher, and Jamshid Marvasti; Sustaining Members George Brown, Tom Ferraro, Eva Fogelman, Ken Fuchsman, Mary Lambert, and Philip Pomper; Supporting Members C. Fred Alford, Rudolph Binion, Sander Breiner, Judith Gardiner, Susan Gregory, Carol Lachman, Lee Solomon, Hanna Turken; and Members Michael Britton, James David Fisher, Molly Castelloe-Fong, Glen Jeansonne, Marvin Leibowitz, Margery Quackenbush, and Ken Rasmussen. Our special thanks for thought-provoking materials to C. Fred Alford, Alexei and Ehor Boyanowsky, Michael Britton, Don Carveth, Florette Cohen, Nina Dadlez, Dan Dervin, Paul Elovitz, Audrey Falk, Tom Ferraro, Eva Fogelman, Ken Fuchsman, Jay Gonen, Juhani Ihanus, Joseph Kramp, Joel Markowitz, Jamshid Marvasti, Allan Mohl, Merle Molofsky, Pat Oles, Peter Petschauer, Phillip Pomper, Jacques Szaluta, Peace Sullivan, and Frank Summers. To Caitlin Adams for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2003 software application, Nicole Alliegro and Devin McGinley for editing and proofing. To Professors Ken Fuchsman and Paul Salstrom as well as Joseph Kramp and Lauren Seregransky for proofing. Our special thanks to our editors and to our numerous, overworked referees, who must remain anonymous.
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Call for Papers
Creative Lives: Psychobiographical Approaches
The December 2011 Special Issue
Psychological Insights on Lives of Creativity (broadly defined), including:
- Childhood origins of artistic creativity; interactions with mother, father, siblings, and caretakers
- Genetic versus environmental aspects of artistic creativity
- Emotional and psychological consequences of parental dysfunction or loss
- Self-discovery through art
- Creativity as an act of individuality and a resistance to conformity
- Art as sublimation
- Creative illnesses of artists
- Psychological issues of specific artists through their work
- Gender and identity issues for artists
- Case studies of artists’ lives and works, for example:
- playwrights Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, or Henrik Ibsen
- painters and sculptors Judy Chicago, Lucian Freud, or Georgia O’Keefe
- Autobiography and the artist
- When and why in Western history the inner life of an artist came to be seen as the core of creativity
- Artists’ role and status in American society today compared historically
- Artists and their work: effect (cause) or reflection (mirror) of changes in society’s values?
- Artists in different historical eras and their work as expression of the psychohistory of their times
- How societal catastrophes—war, economic depression, political revolution, epidemic, natural disaster—affect artists’ creativity and creative output, and the market for art
- Balancing older Freudian concepts regarding creativity as pathological with a more positive approach
- Insights on creative lives from the theories of Freud, Adler, Jung, Sullivan, Winnicott, and others
- Do artists make different analysands and, if so, how does this impact the countertransference of the analyst?
- Does psychotherapy add to or interfere with artistic creativity? If so, how and why?
- The new frontier of creativity: where psychoanalytic theory joins neuroscience
- Reviews/review essays on relevant books, exhibits, films, plays, or shows
Articles are welcome.
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The Psychology of American Exceptionalism
June 2011 Special Issue
Psychological/Psychodynamic Insights on Aspects of American Exceptionalism reflected in:
Psychological/Psychodynamic Insights on Aspects of American Exceptionalism reflected in:
- A contemporary or historical case study/studies
- A psychobiographical exploration of the roots of this identification: Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, and so forth
- Justifications for American imperialistic behaviors
- Justifications for international capitalism and special interests
- Religious aspects now and throughout the years: America as “the shining city on the hill”
- Its patterns and the emotional climate of invocation
- Uses in war time and the preparation for war
- Politicians, as well as talk show and television commentators
- Psychogeograhical projections onto countries and states
- Films, flags, songs, and other artifacts
- Comparisons with the exceptionalisms of other nations
- Inspiration for humanitarian efforts such as disaster and food relief, foreign non-military aid, the Peace Corps, and so forth
- Scientific and technological innovation and leadership
- The creation of the League of Nations, major contributions to the creation of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), and so forth
- Setting an example for human kind, in Lincoln’s words, “America as the last best hope for mankind” (as in parts of the Arabic world in 2011)
- Book and movie review essays
Articles are welcome.
Call for Symposium Responses
On the Foreign Policy of American Exceptionalism and its Contemporary Manifestations
by Frank Summers and Paul Elovitz
Requests for the papers and the subsequent commentary of 500-1000 words are welcome and should be mailed to Paul H. Elovitz.
by Frank Summers and Paul Elovitz
Requests for the papers and the subsequent commentary of 500-1000 words are welcome and should be mailed to Paul H. Elovitz.
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