The Psychology and Experience of Facing Death and Dying
Due October 15, 2008

Some possible approaches include:

-What constitutes a “good death?”
-The denial of death
-How people prepare to die
-Stages in the process of dying
-The humor of death and dying
-Responses to the death of a loved one
-The treatment of death by the family, professionals, and society
-Intergenerational psychodynamics in facing death and dying and its aftermath
-Death in the cinema —the films of Ingmar Bergman and others
-Case studies of the death of famous people such as Churchill, Freud, and Jefferson
-The deification in death of Princess Diana, Elvis Presley, et al.
-Responses to the death of the hero or tyrant
-Psychological insights on death in literature
-Suicide and assisted suicide
-Suicide in war and terrorism
-Cross cultural approaches to death and dying
-How victims of the Holocaust and other genocides deal with death in their lives
-Case studies from hospice workers, therapists, and thanatologists
-The body after death: autopsy, burial, cremation, and various death rituals
-Reviews of books on death by Nuland, et al.

Articles of 500-1500 words (and one long piece) are welcome. Contact Editor Paul H. Elovitz at pelovitz@aol.com.

Psychoanalysis of Love and Hate: A Retrospective

Review essays of texts on the psychoanalysis of love and hate

Special Issue, March 2009

Some possible texts to be reviewed include:

- Sigmund Freud - Psychology of Love
- Ian Suttie - Origins of Love and Hate
- Melanie Klein & Joan Riviere - Love, Hate & Reparation
- Erich Fromm - The Art of Loving
- Theodor Reik - Of Love and Lust
- Michael Balint - Primary Love and Psychoanalytic Technique
- Rollo May - Love and Will
- Reuben Fine - The Meaning of Love in Human Experience
- Jessica Benjamin - Bonds of Love
- Ethel S. Person - Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters
- Jonathan Lear - Love and Its Place in Nature
- Martin Bergmann - The Anatomy of Loving
- Jane Goldberg - The Dark Side of Love
- Otto Kernberg - Love Relations
- Ilham Dilman - Love: Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes
- Stephen A. Mitchell - Can Love Last?
- David Mann  (editor) - Love and Hate
- Andre Green & Gregorio Kohon - Love and Its Vicissitudes
- Mario Mikulincer & Gail Goodman (editors) - Dynamics of Romantic Love
- Joseph Lichtenberg - Sensuality and Sexuality across the Divide of Shame
- Leo Bersani & Adam Phillips. - Intimacies

Due January 10, 2009

Articles of 1000-1500 words (and one long piece) are welcome, as are additional suggestions.  Contact Guest Editor
Professor Ken Fuchsman at
ken.fuchsman@uconn.edu.