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Volume 32 Number 4Fall 2025

ISSN 1080-2622

Editorial Board

C. Fred Alford, PhD University of Maryland • James William Anderson, PhD Northwestern University • David R. Beisel, PhD RCC-SUNY • Marilyn Charles, PhD Austen Riggs Center • Lawrence J. Friedman, PhD Harvard University • Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut • Juhani Ihanus, PhD University of Helsinki • Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA • Denis O’Keefe, PhD New York University • Peter W. Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University • William McKinley Runyan, PhD University of California-Berkeley • Vamık Volkan, MD University of Virginia

Articles (38)

PSYCHOANALYSIS OF AGING, ASSISTED LIVING, HEALTH, LONGEVITY, AND RETIREMENT

AMERICA’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH GUNS SPECIAL FEATURE PART I

BOOK REVIEWS

Clio’s Psyche Call for Papers on

Honoring Robert Jay Lifton and Assessing His Legacy

Spring 2026 Issue
Deadline: 01/01/2026

Some possible psychohistorical topics to write about:

  • Lifton’s formative years and the impact of military service.
  • Lifton’s concepts: Totalism, “doubling”, protean self, symbolic immortality, survivor mission.
  • Death in Life and the psychology of the survivor (trauma, testimony, witnessing).
  • The Wellfleet Group and its influence.
  • The Nazi Doctors: “doubling,” perpetrator psychology, and medical ethics today.
  • Method and stance: interviewing, narrative craft, moral witnessing, interdisciplinarity.
  • Lifton as mentor, colleague, and friend (vignettes and letters welcome).
  • Lifton and Erikson: convergences, divergences, and shared ambivalence toward “psychohistory.”
  • Apocalyptic movements and state violence (e.g., Aum Shinrikyo) and contemporary echoes.
  • Veterans, PTSD, and moral injury: the language of trauma.
  • Lifton as a public intellectual: nuclearism, etc.
  • Teaching Lifton: classroom modules, case discussions, and student responses.
  • Archival/biographical notes: letters, interviews, and lesser known talks.

We seek articles from 1,000-2,500 words. Go to Cliospsyche.com for details or contact .

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At the Turning of the Year

For the Clio’s Psyche Community
As the old year exhales
and the new one draws its first bright breath,
we offer our warm wishes for health, prosperity,
and the kind of success that deepens meaning
rather than quickens pace.
May the Holiday Season bring peace and joy —
in your homes, your work,
and in the quiet inner spaces
where reflection becomes insight.
And may we, together,
renew the task that binds our community:
to explore the why’s of history,
to listen for the motives beneath events,
to read lives with empathy through psychobiography,
and to join in collegial conversations
that challenge, support, and inspire.
May the coming year welcome new voices,
new questions, and new contributions —
from attending our meetings,
to writing and publishing,
to engaging in the shared inquiry
that keeps psychohistory vibrant and alive.
As we step into the unfolding future,
may understanding grow,
may insight guide us,
and may we support one another
in the work that gives our field its heartbeat.
Warmest wishes for a peaceful Holiday Season
and a joyful, meaningful New Year.

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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).
Read Excerpts from Ch. 1 and Ch. 2 and Table of Contents from The Making of Psychohistory.

The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory, edited by Dr. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD (2021) – available from ORI Academic Press in ebook ($19.99) and Amazon in softcover ($24.99) formats.

Interview with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, the Author of The Making of Psychohistory (conducted by Ken Fuchsman, EdD, week of July 2, 2018) – View it here https://youtu.be/noYaOoC3Lig