Volume 29 Number 3Spring 2023

Clio’s Psyche, conscious, culture, Henry Lawton, history, human personality, interdisciplinary, interpretive approach, Peter Loewenberg, politics, psychoanalysis, psychobiography, psychohistory, social sciences, unconscious, William “Bill” Gilmore

childhood, Children, Culture and Controversy, Children of Crisis, Erich Fromm, Erik H. Erikson, festschrift, history, Karl Menninger, Lawrence J. Friedman, Menninger Foundation, psychoanalytic theory, psychobiography, psychohistory

bibliography, career, festschrift, Lawrence J. Friedman, psychohistory

American politics, conferences, Erich Fromm, Erik H. Erikson, festschrift, history, Lawrence J. Friedman, Menningers, primary sources, psychohistory, The White Savage

Childhood in Society, cutting edge topics, Erik Erikson, festschrift, football, history, interdisciplinary, Lawrence J. Friedman, play, psychohistory, racial justice, Up from Slavery

adult attachment theory, American psychiatry, classical biography, domineering, festschrift, insecure attachment, Lawrence J. Friedman, Menninger Clinic, Menninger siblings, psychobiographical, secure attachment

cross disciplinary, emotion in historical narrative, festschrift, Harvard Conference on Public Intellectuals, historical practice, integrating emotions, intellectual history, invisible college, Lawrence J. Friedman, mentorship, psychohistory, social history, storytelling, transient institution

The Conference on Public Intellectuals-an important, cross disciplinary transient institution centered in history-was nurtured and sustained by the recently retired Indiana University scholar Lawrence J. Friedman. This invisible college nurtured pioneering approaches to social, cultural, and intellectual history. Insights from these gatherings, I argue, have transcendent value, illuminating the importance of integrating emotional understanding into historical storytelling in many fields, including diplomatic history and the history of science.

biographers, biography, festschrift, generosity, Lawrence J. Friedman, Menninger: The Family and the Clinic, Menningers, mentorship, personology, psychohistory, Robert Coles, teaching

Erik Erikson proved a crucial figure in the lives and work of both Robert Coles and Larry Friedman. Encountering Erikson as a person and engaging his legacy provided strong lessons for these celebrated biographers-lessons that can also meaningfully inform contemporary personological writers.

Aleid Truijens, biographer, Erich Fromm, festschrift, Hella S. Haasse, imagination, Lawrence J. Friedman, Living in the Imagination, narrative, personal dialogue, psychobiography, public intellectual, woman’s role

conferences, convener, Erich Fromm, Erik H. Erikson, fellowship, festschrift, interdisciplinary, Lawrence J. Friedman, psychobiography, psychohistory, Public Intellectuals Conference, scholarly labor

Cold War, festschrift, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), Henry A. Wallace, New Deal, nuclear arms race, peacemongering, psychobiography, Soviet Union, visionary thinker, war and peace

Larry Friedman and I both admire visionaries who employ their insights and wisdom to try and make a better world. High on our list is Henry A. Wallace, FDR’s Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President from 1941 to 1945. During those years and until his September 1946 firing by Truman as Secretary of Commerce, Wallace waged a lonely, though heroic, battle to prevent the Cold War and nuclear arms race. He almost succeeded.

biography, Erik H. Erikson, exploratory discourse, festschrift, history of psychiatry, history of psychology, Lawrence J. Friedman, psychobiography, psychohistory, scholarly contributions, social activism, teaching

academic, baseball, Erik H. Erikson, festschrift, Lawrence J. Friedman, psychohistory, Psychohistory Forum, scholarship, Toledo Mud Hens, “Why We Hate”

Boston University, culture, ethnic amalgam, festschrift, history, Lawrence J. Friedman, Los Angeles, One World movement, politics, psychohistory, University of Southern California (UCLA)

The Emotional Life of Nations, Erich Fromm, Erik H. Erikson, festschrift, historian, The History of Psychohistory, Lawrence J. Friedman, Menningers, mentorship, political activist, public intellectual, Robert Jay Lifton, psychohistory, Psychohistory Review, scholarship, storyteller, Wellfleet Psychohistory Group

disclosure, Erich Fromm, ethics, festschrift, historical record, The Journal of Psychohistory, Lawrence J. Friedman, psychobiography, psychohistory, Robert Jay Lifton, teacher, Wellfleet Psychohistory Group, writer

academic discussion, deconstructing complex matters, festschrift, Harvard Public Intellectuals Annual Conference, human dignity, humanitarian, humble individual, intellectual, Lawrence J. Friedman, mentorship, psychohistory, writing process

dialogue, festschrift, Hiroshima, intersecting interests, Japan, Lawrence J. Friedman, One World movement, psychohistory, world peace

collective experience, festschrift, global justice, global order, global violence, idealism, Lawrence J. Friedman, One World movement, open borders, psychohistory, World Without Nations: Pragmatic Visionaries and the Quest for Global Peace

Austrian Alps, brass band, Carl Orff, church music, Gustav Mahler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Strauss, music history, musicians, patriotic songs, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychology, South Tyrol

Church, brass band, and accordion music surrounded the author as a child in the Alps. These forms were unique preparation to embrace other expressions of music, including classical, jazz, and those rendered by orchestras in different parts of the world. As the enjoyment of the patriotic songs of South Tyrol in Italy echoed across the mountains, they set the groundwork to later understand why some composers faded from awareness because of regime changes, and others became caught up in authoritarian regimes to survive.

attachment style, classical music, Ludwig van Beethoven, musicians, narrative identity, personality, psychoanalysis, psychobiography, psychology, qualitative methodology

For four years, the author focused on Beethoven’s personality and published a psychobiography of him in a European language. In this article, she shares her experience dealing with six challenges.

Argentine Tango, clinical psychology, dance therapy, free association, improvisation, individuation, music, negative transference, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychotherapy, self-integration

Music as resistance makes way for the internal music of the psyche in dance therapy and psychotherapy. Music as connection speaks of the external music in the dance of Argentine Tango where a partnership, which is all about connection, lives in the lyrical, mournful, and also peppy milonga music. The author also explores some of her own biographical journey.

jazz, music, musicians, news making, poetry, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychology

classical music, conductors, gender disparity, music, musicians, patriarchy, performers, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychology, tradition, women composers

This paper explores the historical neglect of women’s significant contributions to classical music and some of the few gains in the last century.

Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM), generational trauma, Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), Helen Bonny, Lohengrin, music, musicians, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychology, Richard Wagner, self-care

The author shares her experience of how a specific composition forever changed her perceptions of self-worth and her understanding of how trauma can be passed down through generations.

Art Blakey, Billboard, blues, emotional response, jazz, Moanin’, music education, musicians, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychology

The authors discuss the musical events in their lives that profoundly affected their journeys as musicians. The events shared contributed to who the authors are today.

Ave Maria, community gatherings, eternity knot, imagination, marriage bond, music listening, nonduality, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychology, social-emotional focusing, wedding song

This paper illustrates how wedding songs conduct and facilitate community gatherings, social-emotional focusing, and symbolization of the marriage bond. It is exemplified by a music listening guide.

creative drive, homosexuality, Leonardo da Vinci, music, musicians, neurosis, object choice, object relations, paternal presence, preoedipal development, psychoanalysis, psychobiography, psychology, psychosexual stages, Scott Walker, self-defeating behaviors, Sigmund Freud

Both Leonardo Da Vinci and musician Scott Walker grew up without a strong paternal presence, and both seem to have had neuroses connected to their creative drives later in life. A psychobiographical consideration of both subjects concludes that one contributing cause to their artistic difficulties lies in their compromised preoedipal development, which led Leonardo into procrastination and Walker into dissolution.

Jay Y. Gonen, memorial, psychobiography, psychohistory, psychologist, University of Cincinnati, University of Rochester Medical Center, war trauma

book review, Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst, history of psychoanalysis, Linda Hopkins, Masud Khan: Paradox and Enigma, psychobiography, Steven Kuchuck

American Psychiatric Association (APA), book review, dark self-states, John Steinbeck, malignant narcissism, political timeliness, psychohistory, Richard Wood, A Study of Malignant Narcissism: Personal and Professional Insights

book review, empathy, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past, A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century, Heinz Kohut, psychobiography, psychohistory, Thomas A. Kohut, Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership

book review, Daniel S. Benveniste, Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud’s Totem and Taboo, primal father, psychohistory, psychosexual stages, Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo, traumatic experiences