Clio's Psyche - Psychological and Historical Insight without Jargon

Welcome to Clio's Psyche and the Psychohistory Forum.

Our mission is to enlarge and disseminate the related paradigms of applied psychoanalysis, political psychology, psychobiography, and of psychological history. We seek to do this in non-technical language.
Our goal is always to stimulate psychohistorical thought, publications, research, and teaching. Some specific objectives are as follows:

To encourage the general public to think psychohistorically
To disseminate psychohistorical knowledge
To communicate with Forum members and subscribers
To assist the networking of colleagues, especially in the Psychohistory Forum research groups
To grow the psychohistorical community and to the larger group of people interested in what we do
To help clinicians focus on history and current events
To assist academics in all disciplines — history, literature, political science, psychology, sociology, and so
forth — to utilize the insights and tools of psychoanalysis, psychobiography, and psychology
To foster psychohistorical debate, discussion, listening, publication, research, and thought
To help transmit the knowledge of an older generation of psychohistorians to those just entering the field
To research and publish the history of our field, honoring the work of those who have built it.
To make available online obituaries of those who die, memorializing their work
To assist in the intergenerational transmission of ideas

In conclusion, we welcome others joining with us to achieve the goals articulated in this mission statement.

Paul H. Elovitz, PhD
Editor, Clio's Psyche

Table of Contents: September 2011

123 Military and Diplomatic Blind Spots and Traumatic Reenactments
109 David Beisel

134 Moths to Flames
115Francis A. Beer

137 The Battle of Hürtgen Forest
109Sander Breiner

138 Denials and Disavowals
115Nathan Carlin

141 Washington Policy Makers
115Paul H. Elovitz

143 Models in Psychoanalytic Historical Research
115Karl Figlio

146 American Wars and Reliving Trauma
115Ken Fuchsman

149 Blind Spots and Seeing Spots
115Ted Goertzel

150 Traumatic Memory, Blind Spots and Remembering
115Juhani Ihanus

154 The Weight of the Unconscious
115Paul F. Jankowski

156 Popular Blindness as National Trauma
115Daniel Klenbort

158 Denial or Selective Perception?
115Philip Langer

161 Is There More to Psychohistory?
115David Lotto

164 Psychological Influence Outweighs Blind Spots
115Richard Lyman

167 Saving Face, Chosen Traumas, and Chosen Glories
115Alice Maher

168 Weak Leaders and Self-Deception
165Jamshid A. Marvasti

171 The Role of Shock and Surprise
173 Paul Salstrom

175 Do Scientific Geniuses Also Have Blind Spots?
115Dean Keith Simonton

177 Denial or Mistake?
115Frank Summers

179 Beisel Responds: Overcoming Resistance to Comparative, Psychological, & Trauma History
115David Beisel

184 Featured Scholar Interview, Nancy C. Unger: A Life of Asking "Why?"
115Bob Lentz

196 Elizabeth Edwards: Song and Sorrows
115Molly Castelloe

200 The Life and Art of Friendship of Rudolph Binion
115Paul H. Elovitz

209 My Own Identical Twin
115Rudolph Binion

209 Rudolph Binion's Traumatic Encounter with Frau Lau
115Deborah Hayden

215 Recollections of Rudolph Binion
115Robert Aldrich, David Beisel, Mary Coleman, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Jay Y. Gonen, Amy Hackett, Patricia Herlihy, Paul F. Jankowski, Brett Kahr, Wallace Katz, Stephen Kern, David Lewis-Hodgson, Jennifer MacDonald, Paul Monaco, Melanie Murphy, Peter Petschauer, Paul Salstrom, Olga Shutova, Jaques Szaluta, David G. Troyansky, Tim Wright, Irvin D. Yalom

238 The Life of Victor Wolfenstein (1940-2010)
115Bob Lentz and Paul H. Elovitz

242 Remembering Victor Wolfenstein
115Peter Loewenberg

Bulletin Board

Call For Papers on the Psychology of Creativity for the December Issue