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 26 Number 3Spring 2020
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 • Marilyn Charles, PhD Austen Riggs Center • Lawrence J. Friedman, PhD Harvard University • Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut • Bob Lentz • Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA • Peter Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ALTRUISM, SERVICE, AND GENERATIVITY
- Elovitz, P. H. (2020). Exploring my impulses for service. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 265-273. https://doi.org/10.70763/83ddfbd1c4f871159c148d7a010e69be
- Crawley, D. (2020). Personal circumstance and service. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 273-276. https://doi.org/10.70763/5c151c2a9b76f9ef26d7e0f0d00c9a89
- Rosenberg, J. M. (2020). Finding the roots of altruism in self and society. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 277-281. https://doi.org/10.70763/73f104c9fba50050eea11d9d075247cc
- Demeure, B. (2020). Auguste Comte coined the word altruism: The cornerstone of positivism. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 281-286. https://doi.org/10.70763/f2b93ce08763fddf54bcb7beb62a2c74
- Petschauer, P. W. (2020). Bavaria’s spring 2020 [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 287-288. https://doi.org/10.70763/2119b8d43eafcf353e07d7cb5554170b
- Cohn, S. (2020). Compassion during plagues. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 288-293. https://doi.org/10.70763/add7a048049671970976f3e18f21ade3
- Petschauer, P. W. (2020). Motivations for patronage. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 293-300. https://doi.org/10.70763/cab070d53bd0d200746fb852a922064a
- Shafir, T. B. (2020). When giving never seems to be enough. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 300-304. https://doi.org/10.70763/3569df159ec477451530c4455b2a9e86
- Meyerhoff, J. (2020). The false self in service to others. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 304-308. https://doi.org/10.70763/9fc664916bce863561527f06a96f5ff3
- Seitler, B. N. (2020). From altruism to generativity. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 308-311. https://doi.org/10.70763/f87e955fd6b89f8963b6934beb077d6e
COVID-19 IS OUR CURRENT TEST OF ALTRUISM
- Harris, J. (2020). Warm April morning during the pandemic [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 311-312. https://doi.org/10.70763/1aa3d9c6ce672447e1e5d0f1b5207e85
POLITICS AND TRUMP IN 2020
- Elovitz, P. H. (2020). Free associations on election 2020: What politicians mean to us. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.70763/e16e74a63567ecb44ade5c87002bb1d9
- Kavaler-Adler, S. (2020). Trump in us: The president as a psychic container for all our internal demons. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 318-320. https://doi.org/10.70763/44feb0096faa8326192570788b38c1d1
- Stein, H. F. (2020). Coronavirus (COVID-19) 2020, or the natural history of disease [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 321-322. https://doi.org/10.70763/34306d99c63613fad5b2a140398c0420
- Elovitz, P. H. (2020). Insights on Trump from a pathbreaking new book [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 322-328. https://doi.org/10.70763/f3175210f90bfc7ea82901db0ef7452f
- O’Keefe, D., & Elovitz, P. H. (2020). A Finnish psychohistorian: Juhani Ihanus [Interview]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 328-340. https://doi.org/10.70763/deb74a85a4a68465b75c721d45db5d3b
COMICS IN AMERICAN FANTASY (PRIMARILY STUDENT AND ALUMNI ARTICLES)
- D’Andria, N. (2020). Blaming pop culture throughout history. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 340-345. https://doi.org/10.70763/335d3d1cd7ef05ec77714a215134914c
- Ferraro, T. (2020). Split-personalities, narcissism, grandiosity, and loneliness in our comic heroes and culture. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 345-348. https://doi.org/10.70763/e73fecc08ee9b0e1a876614ec3178bac
- Heiliczer, J. (2020). What’s a story to a god? Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 349-350. https://doi.org/10.70763/690bb330e5e7e3e07867fafc4d32ec82
- Infermo, P. (2020). Psychological insights on the villain Thanos within the Marvel Universe. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 351-353. https://doi.org/10.70763/4ecb679fd35dcfd0f0894c399590be1a
THE MANY ROADS OF THE BUILDERS OF PSYCHOHISTORY: PART III BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
- Fogelman, E. (2020). Judith Kestenberg: A psychohistorical advocate for Holocaust child survivors and their children. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 353-358. https://doi.org/10.70763/c157297d1a1ff043255bfb18530caaa2
- Hayden, D. (2020). Rudolph Binion’s psychohistory workshop: Frau Lou: Nietzsche’s wayward disciple. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 358-363. https://doi.org/10.70763/916d3891a243c10fede49f9c276f1a20
- Harris, J. (2020). The passion of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 363-367. https://doi.org/10.70763/42547f5a44d87da3bc40ee5d09624606
- Rosenberg, J. M. (2020). Avner Falk: A prolific Israeli psychohistorian. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 368-371. https://doi.org/10.70763/41c542dfe6e4fc3deb251d64cf6ed2e4
- Rubin, J. C. (2020). Ralph Colp: My Darwinian psychohistorian and psychiatrist father. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 371-376. https://doi.org/10.70763/36072923bfc3cf47745d704feb489480
- West, M. I. (2020). Lawrence J. Friedman’s art of fusing history and psychology. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 376-380. https://doi.org/10.70763/c82836ed448c41094025b4a872c5341e
BOOK REVIEWS
- Petschauer, P. W. (2020). A good life after surviving Ravensbrück [Review of the book Remembering Ravensbrück: Holocaust to Healing by Natalie B. Hes (2020)]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 381-383. https://doi.org/10.70763/58521e4e2bd3d4b988cbd17d7365df3c
- Elovitz, P. H. (2020). Loss and trauma incurred in the search for life in America [Review of the book They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory, Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants, and their Children by Hannah Hahn (2019)]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 383-385. https://doi.org/10.70763/63c6598e9ddd2961e7dfa4d4eb8144a1
BULLETIN BOARD
CONFERENCES: The exact dates and venues of our forthcoming Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Seminars are unclear during our current virus crisis. Jim Anderson’s (Northwestern University/psychoanalyst/editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis) presentation on “Heinz Kohut’s Vulnerable Self,” originally scheduled for April 4th, may possibly be on October 3rd or some earlier time online. Hopefully, our Election 2020 meeting will be in person on October 31st, but there’s no guarantee. If in person, Jacques Szaluta will serve as moderator and Harold Takoosian will host our meeting at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus. There is great uncertainty about all the related conferences we normally note.
CONGRATULATIONS: To Robert Jay Lifton for his plenary address at the American Psychoanalytic Association national meeting on February 14, 2020.
THANKS: To Benefactors William Argus, Herbert Barry, Peter Barglow, David Beisel, Tom Ferraro, Peter Loewenberg, David Lotto, Jamshid Marvasti, Candace Orcutt, Billie Pivnick, Mary Peace Sullivan, and Jacques Szaluta; Patrons Fred Alford, David James Fisher, Eva Fogelman, Ken Fuchsman, Peter Webb Petschauer, Joyce Rosenberg, and Inna Rozentsveit; Sustaining
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Members James R. Booth, Hannah Hahn, Ruth Lijtmaer, Allan S. Mohl, Pellman (Pythia) Peay, and Arnold Richards; Supporting Members James W. Anderson, Barbara Bloom, Michael Britton, Paul H. Elovitz, Christine R. Good, Susan Kavaler-Adler, Bob Lentz, Joseph G. Ponterotto, and Charles B. Strozier; and members Molly Castelloe, Susan Charney, Judith Gardiner, Judith Logue, Denis O’Keefe, Ken Rasmussen, Howard Stein, and Christine Stern. Our special thanks for thought-provoking materials to Samuel Cohn, Donna Crawley, Nicole D’Andria, Brigitte Demeure, Paul H. Elovitz, Tom Ferraro, Eva Fogelman, Judith Harris, Deborah Hayden, Joshua Heiliczer, Philip Infermo, Susan Kavaler-Adler, Jeff Meyerhoff, Denis J. O’Keefe, Peter Webb Petschauer, Joyce M. Rosenberg, Judith Colp Rubin, Burton Norman Seitler, Talia B. Shafir, Howard F. Stein, and Mark I. West. To Nicole D’Andria for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2016 software application, Tom Holster for technical and marketing support, and Hailey Ryan and Professor Paul Salstrom for proofing. Our special thanks to our authors, editors, and numerous overworked referees who must remain anonymous.
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Clio’s Psyche Call for Papers
The Psychology of Caregiving and Receiving in the Era of COVID-19
For the Fall 2020 Issue the Deadline is July 1, 2020
Clio’s Psyche is looking for articles on a variety of subjects
including the psychoanalysis/psychology of the following:
Clio’s Psyche is looking for articles on a variety of subjects
including the psychoanalysis/psychology of the following:
- What is it like to be a caregiver?
- Caregiving among medical personnel during the pandemic
- Caregivers such as Dr. Fauci and other epidemiologists
- Altruism and fear among COVID-19 caregivers
- Death in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic
- The economics and politics of caretaking: families and politicians
- Lengthy case studies of caregiving and receiving
- Dealing with anger, frustration, resentment, and passive
aggressive behavior - The impact of caregiving on family relationships
- Relationships that are destroyed or strengthened by caregiving
- Caring for and/or covering up the serious illnesses of public
figures: FDR, JFK, Jimmy Carter, B. Johnson, A. Trebek, etc. - The kindness, giving, insensitivity, and avoidance of strangers: Contemporary and historical cases and patterns
- The impact of illness on interpersonal relations
- Case studies of caregiving in different cultures
- Anger directed against the failure of one’s body and caregivers
- End of life issues: assisted suicide, facing death, greed, suicide, thievery
- Caregiving and receiving in books, movies, and on TV
We seek articles from 500 to 2,000 words—including your brief biography no later than July 1, 2020. Articles, abstracts, and queries should be sent to .
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Clio’s Psyche Call for Papers
Election 2020 in the Shadow of COVID-19 Group Emotions and Psychopolitics
July 1 Deadline for Fall 2020
Clio’s Psyche is looking for articles on a variety of subjects including the psychoanalysis/psychology of the following:
Clio’s Psyche is looking for articles on a variety of subjects including the psychoanalysis/psychology of the following:
- A comparison of the politics of Biden and Trump
- A comparison of the childhoods and personalities of Trump and Biden
- A comparison of the defense mechanism in crisis of Biden and Trump
- How Trump and Biden confront COVID-19 and other pandemics
- A comparison of the candidates’ marital and familial lives
- A comparative study of the spouses, children, and grandchildren of the candidates
- A comparison of the candidates in victory and defeat
- A comparative study of leaders in their 70s & 80s, such as Konrad Adenauer and Mahathir Mohamad
- Biden and Trump on immigration and “the wall”
- Electoral fantasies and the reality of a world of 195 countries
- Cycles in American electoral politics
- The electorate in the light of impeachment and the pandemic
- Trump’s uneasy relationship with Fauci and the pandemic experts
- Insights from candidate autobiographies, books, diaries, interviews, and speeches
We seek articles from 500 to 2,000 words—including your brief biography no later than July 1, 2020. A 2,500-3,500-word essay of outstanding scholarship and literary quality is welcome as a symposium article if received by May 1, 2020. Articles, abstracts, and queries should be sent to .
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Clio’s Psyche
The Psychohistory Forum
The Forum was created in 1982 as a non-profit organization of colleagues to increase our knowledge of culture, history, politics, society, and ourselves. Members, including the founder/director/editor pay yearly dues. It holds mostly bimonthly meetings focused on examining a research paper in-depth. The four-hour Saturday workshop meetings focus on papers that have been previously read by the membership. It is the only psychohistory group that nurtures the scholarship of colleagues in a small group, non-judgmental setting. The Forum also sponsors meetings at conferences, such as the International Psychohistorical Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. In 1994, Clio’s Psyche came into being to maintain a record of our scholarship and its 100th issue will be published in the fall.
Current Call for Papers (links may be found at cliospsyche.org/ papers)
Articles are typically 500-2,000 (50-word abstract, 7-10 keywords, author bio. included) (Reviews and responses to symposia papers are 1,000 words in length, with keywords & bio.)
COVID-19: Psychoanalytic and Personal Perspectives June 15, 2020
Caregiving and Receiving in the Era of Coronavirus July 1, 2020
Presidential Election in the Shadow of COVID-19 July 1, 2020
Psychoanalytic and Psychohistorical Pedagogy Oct. 1, 2020
The Psychoanalysis of Film and TV TBA – 2021
Our Anxious Electronically Connected World TBA – 2021
As usual, we accept articles unrelated to special issues
COVID-19: Psychoanalytic and Personal Perspectives June 15, 2020
Caregiving and Receiving in the Era of Coronavirus July 1, 2020
Presidential Election in the Shadow of COVID-19 July 1, 2020
Psychoanalytic and Psychohistorical Pedagogy Oct. 1, 2020
The Psychoanalysis of Film and TV TBA – 2021
Our Anxious Electronically Connected World TBA – 2021
As usual, we accept articles unrelated to special issues
The Psychohistory Forum
- Welcomes Work-In-Progress presentation paper proposals, which will be vetted by a committee.
- In recent years, it has been held at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus
- Provides some young scholars’ and clinicians’ complimentary memberships and subscriptions.
- Welcomes applicants to serve as associate and guest editors
Contact Paul Elovitz, PhD, Director/Convener of the Forum and Editor at .
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