The Making of Psychohistory: Origins, Controversies, and Pioneering Contributors by Dr. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD (2018) – follow the link to order from the publisher (ISBN # 978-1-138-58749-6, use FLR40 code to get a 20% discount).
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Volume 22 Number 3December 2015
ISSN 1080-2622
Editorial Board
C. Fred Alford, PhD University of Maryland • James W. Anderson, PhD Northwestern University • David Beisel, PhD RCC-SUNY • Donald L. Carveth, PhD, York University • Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut • Bob Lentz • Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA • Peter Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TERROR AND TERRORISM SPECIAL ISSUE
- Elovitz, P. H. (2015). Death anxiety, murder-suicide, and the impact of the news. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 123-126. https://doi.org/10.70763/dd50e4d9c47cdf72d24e89d248edb35b
- Rosenberg, J. M. (2015). Why the suicide bomber? Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 127-130. https://doi.org/10.70763/db9ad56c71619aeed9723314d1456037
- Simms, N. (2015). Contemporary ritual suicide and mass murder: Speculations on the nature of terrorism. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 130-138. https://doi.org/10.70763/43d762ca733a839226415450b0dbf9d2
- Meladze, V. (2015). Quest for rebirth: Psychohistorical perspectives on the Islamic state’s sacrificial war. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 138-143. https://doi.org/10.70763/b607ba543ad05417b8507ee86c54fcb7
- Barglow, P. (2015). Understanding radical youth terrorism. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 143-152. https://doi.org/10.70763/0cbed40c0d920b94126eaf5e707be1f5
- Barry, H., III (2015). Reflections on terrorists. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 152-155. https://doi.org/10.70763/f81dee42585b3814de199b2e88757f5c
- Gibbs, T. (2015). The deeper threat [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 155. https://doi.org/10.70763/11bcd3c1d43688891ed23f5677a174ea
- Gibbs, T. (2015). Tea bags [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 155-156. https://doi.org/10.70763/cba0a4ee5ccd02fda0fe3f9a3e7b89fe
- Tritle, L. (2015). Terror in warfare. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 156-159. https://doi.org/10.70763/f2e84d98d6dc0c7acd56b40509355666
- Stein, H. F. (2015). Petschauer’s psychohistorical poetry. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 160. https://doi.org/10.70763/678004486c119599ed7d199f47da043a
- Petschauer, P. W. (2015). Attila, fencer, Jew [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 160-161. https://doi.org/10.70763/9a32ff36c65e8ba30915a21b7bd76506
- Petschauer, P. W. (2015). Back into the future [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 161-163. https://doi.org/10.70763/4f5a9bf135f285358a4a74b08f8121f8
- Petschauer, P. W. (2015). Toward the end-April 1945 [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 163-164. https://doi.org/10.70763/2ba3c4b9390cc43edb94e42144729d33
- Fogelman, E. (2015). Beyond killing: Torture of women during the Holocaust. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 164-168. https://doi.org/10.70763/7d571e5c15bad5ef8c4352ce7a1d9e78
PSYCHOHISTORICAL INTERVIEWS
- Elovitz, P., & Szaluta, J. (2015). Historian and psychoanalyst: D. J. Fisher [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 168-180. https://doi.org/10.70763/a8badd37c221a3f19d9ad0ac2196849a
- Ihanus, J. (2015). Paul Elovitz on the past, present, and future of Clio’s Psyche [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 180-196. https://doi.org/10.70763/a58616464d14208b2677a084f5d7456f
APPLIED PSYCHOHISTORY
- Petschauer, P. (2015). Putin’s fulfillment of Russian history. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 196-201. https://doi.org/10.70763/9425be43ba92c2b4454ca7bf602efad8
- Beisel, D. (2015). Mad Men and the psychology of nostalgia. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 201-208. https://doi.org/10.70763/1bda4c789c38754f639a376716c5859f
- Ihanus, J. (2015). Resistances and counter-resistances in psychohistory. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 209-213. https://doi.org/10.70763/a0443c8c8c3372d662e9173c18faaa2c
BOOK REVIEWS
- Seitler, B. (2015). Psychodynamic inquiry is verifiable [Review of the book Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry: The Unconscious on the World Scene by William R. Meyers (2015)]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 213-216. https://doi.org/10.70763/5e4450dc93010bbeea7cd28eba296850
- Ihanus, J. (2015). From shooting animals to soothing dreams [Review of the book Animal Killer: Transmission of War Trauma from One Generation to the Next by Vamık D. Volkan (2014)]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 217-219. https://doi.org/10.70763/7059b7dea43da04fd342088d7c1698f0
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
- Carveth, D. (2015). Defining “terrorism” [Letter to the Editor]. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 219-220. https://doi.org/10.70763/0c2f66f43752d47fb49abeea0badf47a
BULLETIN BOARD
CONFERENCES: Our next Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Seminar will be on January 30, 2016 when David Lotto will speak on racism in the Republican Party. Additional seminars will be announced as details are finalized after papers are submitted and accepted. We wish to thank Denis O’Keefe (New York University) and Lawrence J. Friedman (Harvard University) for their September and November presentations and Jacques Szaluta (Merchant Marine Academy) for serving as moderator. Additional proposals are welcome and will be vetted by a committee once a presentation paper is submitted. Announcements and papers are sent out electronically to Psychohistory Forum members. Recent successful conferences in October and November were held by the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) at Rutgers University, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) in Manhattan, and the Interdisciplinary Conference of the Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) in Philadelphia. The Fordham psychology conference that Harold Takooshian has been organizing for 35 years sponsored “Psychobiography” on October 26, 2015 with presentations by Sudhir Kakar, Newton and Sarah LeVine, Joseph Ponterotto,
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Dinesh Sharma, Uwe Geilen, Paul Elovitz, etc. Molly Castelloe presented her film, “Vamik’s Room,” at the Peace and Justice Studies Organization’s annual meeting on October 17th in Harrisonburg, VA. Tom Ferraro contributed to the film Six Innings to Destiny. The International Psychohistorical Association’s (IPA) conference will be on June 1-3, 2016 at New York University; and the International Society for Political Psychology’s (ISPP) conference will be on July 14-17, 2016 in Warsaw, Poland.
WELCOME: Lawrence J. Friedman to our Editorial Board.
CONGRATULATIONS: To Carole Brooks Platt whose In Their Right Minds: The Lives and Shared Practices of Poetic Geniuses (2015) has been published by Imprint Academic in Exeter, UK and is available on Amazon. To David Beisel on the forthcoming publication of Wounded Centuries: A Selection of Poetry that has grown out of our publication and sessions on psychohistorical poetry. Circumstantial Productions in conjunction with Grollier Poetry Books is the publisher. The poems are by John Allman, Rudolph Binion, Dan Dervin, Irene Javors, Meryl Molofsky, Peter Petschauer, and Howard Stein. To Merle Molofsky on the publication of her novel, Streets (2015), by International Psychoanalytic Books.
OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Bill Argus, Herbert Barry, David Beisel, Tom Ferraro, Peter Loewenberg, Marvasti Jamshid, and Mary Peace Sullivan; Patrons Peter Barglow, Ken Fuchsman, David Lotto, Alice Maher, Peter Petschauer, and Burton Norman Seitler; Sustaining Members Dick Booth, George and Carolyn Brown, David James Fisher, Ruth Ljitmaer, Alan Mohl, Joyce M. Rosenberg, and Arlene Steinberg; Supporting Members Paul H. Elovitz, Eva Fogelman, Judy Gardiner, John J. Hartman, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, and Christina Stern; and Members Suzanne Adrion, Heiderose Butscher, Molly Castelloe, Susan Charney, Geoffrey Cocks, Lawrence J. Friedman, Michael S. Isaacs, Judith Logue, Merle Molofsky, Joseph V. Montville, Ruth Neubauer, Ken Rasmussen, Margery Quackenbush, and Howard Stein. Our special thanks for thought-provoking materials to Peter Barglow, Herbert Barry III, David Beisel, Don Carveth, Paul H. Elovitz, Eva Fogelman, David James Fisher, Tom Gibbs, Juhani Ihanus, Victor Meladze, Peter Petschauer, Joyce M. Rosenberg, Burton Norman Seitler, Norman Simms, Howard F. Stein, Jacques Szaluta, and Lawrence Tritle. To Nicole D’Andria for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2013 software application, Caitlin Gaynor and Joyce Rosenberg for editing and proofing, and David Cifelli
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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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Clio’s Psyche Call for Papers
for Future Issues
Clio’s Psyche is looking for articles on a variety of subjects. Here are some special issues that we would welcome psychologically informed guest editor or co-editors for and articles on:
- Psychobiography; Election 2016 Candidates, Emotions, and Political Illusions
- The Impact of Celebrity Culture on America
- Dependency and Independency in the Family, Politics, and Society
- TV as Object Relations: Our Emotional Connection to Fantasy
- Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Business Success
- Images and Psychology of Enemies and Hatred through the Ages
- The Intrapsychic and Societal Processes of the American Acceptance of Homosexuality
- Environmentalism and Anti-Environmentalism
- The Contemporary American Fascination with Animals
- Anti-Government Fantasies and Civilization
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We seek articles from 1,500 to 2,000 words—including your brief biography. Some 3,500 word essays are also welcome provided they are outstanding scholarship and well written. We do not publish bibliographies and usually have citations only for direct quotes. Before writing it is good to examine issues from the last decade on cliospsyche.org/archives. Articles, abstracts, and queries should be sent to the editor: Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, at .
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