Volume 19 Number 2September 2012

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CONFERENCES: Invitations to Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Seminars will be sent by e-mail to members as plans are finalized. Out next meeting is on September 12, 2012 in Toronto, organized by Don Carveth in conjunction with the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. The topic is “Modernity Psychosis: The Evolutionary Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Eli Sagan” with presentations by Carveth and Eli Sagan. Later in the fall, we also will have a meeting on the presidential election and perhaps one on Robert Caro’s most recent book on LBJ. On March 2, 2013, Lawrence Friedman will present on the life and work of Erich Fromm. At the International Psychohistorical Association’s (IPA) June 8-10, 2012 conference at New York University the Forum sponsored a meeting on the presidential election with papers by Herbert Barry, Paul Elovitz, Ken Fuchsman, and Robert Gilbert. Other Forum members presenting were David Beisel, Molly Castelloe, Joel Markowitz, Jamshid Marvasti, Denis O’Keefe, Howard Stein, and Jacques Szaluta. Anna Geifman presented at the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) July 6-9, 2012 conference in Chicago. The Forum is sponsoring a meeting at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society’s (APCS) at Rutgers on October 19-20, 2012 with presentations by Patricia Lazar, David Hoddeson, Paul Elovitz, and David Beisel. The theme of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis” (NAAP) on October 27, 2012 in Manhattan is “Normal and Pathological Generosity: Clinical and Cultural Perspectives.”

NOTES ON MEMBERS: Congratulations to Glen Jeansonne on his March 15^th publication of his eighth book, The Life of Herbert Hoover, Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933 (Palgrave McMillan). Best wishes to Lawrence Friedman on the forthcoming publication of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet (Columbia University Press, 2013). In July Tom Ferraro traveled to Seoul, Korea to promote his psychoanalytically informed book, The Yin & Yang Tales of Neurotic Golfers, and to write several articles on sports psychology.

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 Fred Alford, Peter Loewenberg, Alice Maher, and Jacques Szaluta; Sustaining Members Dick Booth, Eva Fogel-

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man, Ken Fuchsman, Joyce Rosenberg, and Nancy Unger; Supporting Members Judith Gardiner, John Hartman, and Bob Lentz; and Members Sue Adrion, Marvin Leibowitz, Ruth Neubauer, Christine Silverstein, and Richard Wolf. Our special thanks for thought-provoking materials to Nicole Alliegro, James Anderson, Herbert Barry, David Beisel, Donald Carveth, Jerome Chanes, Patricia Cotti, Dan Dervin, Paul H. Elovitz, Eva Fogelman, Ken Fuchsman, Anna Geifman, John Hartman, Juhani Ihanus, Glenn Jeansonne, George Khasin, Carol Lachman, Philip Langer, David Luhrssen, Allan Mohl, Merle Molofsky, Ayla Humphrey, Nicholas Humphrey, Ken Rasmussen, Vivian Rosenberg, Norman Simms, Frederick Stecker, Eric Sterling, and Nancy C. Unger. Thanks to Bob Lentz for Guest Editing the election 2012 materials and to David Lotto for editing the Lifton Festschrift. To Nicole Alliegro for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2007 software application, Caitlin Adams for editing and proofing, and Professor Paul Salstrom for proofing. Our special thanks to our editors and to our numerous, overworked referees, who must remain anonymous.

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