Clio's Psyche
Academic journal
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Clio’s Psyche: Understanding the “Why” of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society is an academic peer-reviewed journal established in 1994 by Paul Elovitz, Ph.D. of the Psychohistory Forum (1982–) to further the innovative, all encompassing, interdisciplinary field of psychohistory,[1] utilizing the tools of applied psychoanalysis, history, psychobiography, clinical psychology, political psychology, philosophy, and related disciplines.[2]
Clio's Psyche's (ISSN 1080-2622) mission is to nurture psychohistorical scholarship, to disseminate psychohistorical knowledge in non-technical language, to stimulate transdisciplinary thought, and to encourage academicians, clinicians, students, and lay public to research the "why's" of history - personal, group, and societal.
Initially started as a newsletter, within a few years, it became a full length double-blind peer-reviewed journal, one of several in the field.[3] Clio's Psyche produces three or four issues a year, as well as interviews and memorials, all of which are available for readers online under an open access license.
Clio's Psyche's Editors and Editorial Board
Editors
- Paul H. Elovitz, Editor-in-Chief
- Inna Rozentsvit, Associate Editor
Editorial Board
- C. Fred Alford, PhD University of Maryland
- James William Anderson, PhD Northwestern University
- David R. Beisel, PhD RCC-SUNY
- Donald L. Carveth, PhD York University
- Marilyn Charles, PhD Austen Riggs Center
- Lawrence J. Friedman, PhD Harvard University
- Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut
- Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA
- Denis O’Keefe, PhD New York University
- Peter W. Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University
- Vamık Volkan, MD University of Virginia
Clio's Psyche has become one of the leading journals in the field of psychological history.[4] Publication is both in print and online. Every year Clio's Psyche publishes 3-4 issues, with additional special issues and "The Best of Clio's Psyche" publications. The journal features special symposia, festschrifts and interviews with contributors to psychohistorical knowledge.
The following are the festschrifts published by Clio's Psyche from 2012 to 2024.
- Peter Loewenberg Festschrift (Volume 19 Number 1 June 2012)
- Robert Jay Lifton Festschrift (Volume 19 Number 2 December 2012)
- Festschrift for Vamık Volkan (Volume 20 Number 2 September 2013)
- David Beisel Festschrift (Volume 28 – Number 1 – Fall 2021)
- Howard F. Stein Festschrift: Part I (Volume 28 – Number 3 – Spring 2022)
- Howard F. Stein Festschrift: Part II (Volume 29 – Number 1 – Fall 2022)
- Lawrence J. Friedman Festschrift (Volume 29 – Number 3 – Spring 2023)
- The Mac Runyan Festschrift (Volume 30 – Number 1 – Fall 2023)
- The Peter Webb Petschauer Festschrift (Volume 30 Number 2 Fall 2024)
There are over ninety interviews with people who contributed to the fields of psychohistory, psychobiography, psychology, medicine and other fields published in Clio's Psyche between 1995 and 2026. They include interviews with the following people:
- Steven Pinker
- Peter Gay
- Alan Elms
- David Beisel
- Lloyd deMause
- Charles B. Strozier
- William McKinley Runyan
It also publishes detailed biographical memorials of deceased colleagues. The authors who publish in Clio's Psyche come from various academic fields as well as clinical disciplines, and laypeople who are interested in examining the why's of history, society, groups and individuals.[5][6] Each proposed publication undergoes rigorous peer-reviewing double-blind process (usually with five peer-reviewers working on each submission).
Clio's academic authors come from various universities and colleges: Brandeis, Brown, Harvard, Helsinki, Princeton, Rutgers, UConn, Texas, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale, and UCLA. In recent decades, there are more clinicians from diverse backgrounds (medicine, psychology, psychotherapy, dentistry, sport medicine) are involved in writing for Clio's Psyche.
