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: June 2009

Introduction

1 Psychological Explorations of Economic Crises
109 Paul H. Elovitz

6 Obama and the OctoMama
115Dan Dervin

10 Psychoanalyzing the Irrationality of Our Economy
109 Robert Samuels

13 Economic Threat, Authoritarianism, and Political Crisis
115Edward J. Rickert

16 The Fallacy of Faith in a Future of More
115Jonathan J. Goldberg

19 A deficit of Delayed Gratification
115Daniel Klenbort

22 Denial, Mania, and the Search for Saviors
115Patricia L. Gibbs

28 Depletion: Captialism's Unwanted Legacy
115Tom Ferraro

31 Psychology's Collusion in Conventional Financial Delusions
115David L. Smith

34 Economic Disaster - Psychological Disaster
115Harriet Fraad

38 The Anxiety of Not Knowing What to Do
115Ruth Neubauer

39 Psychological Survival in the Economic Crisis
115Hanna Turken

The Binion Eurpean Identity Symposium

38What Made Europeans European
000 Rudolph Binion

64 Comments on Binion
133 David Beisel

69 An Alternate Suggestion for the Origins of European Identity
133 Paul H. Elovitz

73 A critique of Binion on European Identity
165 Joel Markowitz

76 Reflections on Rudolph Binion's Essay on European Identity
173 Peter Petshauer

82 Binion Responds to the Commentators

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83 After Crossing the Threshold: War, Stress, and Suicide
173 Ken Fuchsman

91 Heroes as Mentors and Role Models
22 Peter Petchauer

97 Call for Papers on Heroes, Role Models, and Mentors

98 Rancour-Laferriere's Probing of Tolstoy's Search for Religion
173 Anna Geifman

104 Bulletin Board

106 Call for Papers: Psychology of Health Care and Reform

107 Call for Papers: Psychology of Remebering 9/11