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 communicate with Forum members
- 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 and psychology
- To foster psychohistorical debate and discuss
- 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, memorializing the work of those who have built it, and to make available online obituaries of those who die to assist in the intergenerational transmission of ideas
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