About INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

Marc-André Cotton, President:

Marc-André Cotton, MA, is an independent researcher trained in psychohistory since 2000. He is the founder and editor of the French-language website Regard conscient, which is dedicated to unveiling the consequences of ordinary violence in childrearing. Marc-André Cotton holds a graduate degree in economics and geography from the University of Geneva and has taught human sciences for thirty-five years. He is currently a trainer, gives lectures internationally and runs parenting workshops. International Vice President of the IPhA between 2014 and 2024, an International member of the Psychohistory Forum, he is the author of Au nom du père, les années Bush et l’héritage de la violence éducative, published in 2014 by L’Instant présent, Paris.

Michael Britton, Vice President:

Michael Britton, EdD, is the current Vice-President of IPhA, Board Member and Donald Klein Memorial Lecturer for the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network, co-founder of New Jersey Psychologists for Social Responsibility, and senior ambassador for Globalization for the Common Good Initiative. He is a retired counselor whose work centered on early trauma, its effects on adult lives and the challenges of resilience. His research has included interview research with senior military officials who were involved in the nuclear arms build-up (planning and management) during the Cold War, investigating the experience of responsibility in a situation of extreme danger; the influence of parental forms of love on how their children will do in love when they become adults; the psychohistorical drama being played out in the shift from traditional and classical architecture to modern and post-modern architecture. He is currently writing on neurobiology, trauma and the process of creating a future in a time of globalization, industrialization built on a super-bubble of oil/gas based energy, and the impact of humankind on the environmental substrates and conditions for life.

Gabriela Gusita, International Vice-President:

My name is Gabriela Gusita, I am 49 years old. I was born and raised in Romania. My studies consist of two Bachelors—Foreign Languages Philology (English-French) and Psychology and two Masters Degrees—“Applied Psychology in the domain of National Security” and Clinical Psychotherapy in Relational Psychoanalytic Approach. I have further studies on Psychoanalysis and Forensic Psychology.

I am a licensed psychologist in Athens and a member of the Greek Association of Psychologists. I have been practicing as a therapist since 2014 and I have opened my private practice in 2017. I am also a scientific collaborator of a Private Bank and the Court and the Prosecutor’s Offices in Athens as a forensic psychologist. I am co-founder of the International “Ferenczi Study Groups” since 2020 and member of the International Forum on Violence.

I am also a member of IARPP (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy) and ISFN (International Sandor Ferenczi Network).

I have been working as a therapist in three languages (Romanian, English and Greek) and I have participated with papers to local and international Conferences and Seminars on relationality, mutuality, trauma and suicide.

Inna Rozentsvit, Communications Director; Acting Editor, Psychohistory News; Co-editor, Clio’s Psyche; Co-director, Psychohistory Forum:

Inna Rozentsvit, MD, PhD, MBA, MSciEd, is a neurologist and neurorehabilitation specialist, trained in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, with extensive experience in brain trauma, autoimmune neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions (www.innarozentsvit.com). She is a founder of the Neurorecovery Solutions, Inc. (neurorecoverysolutions.com), a non-profit organization which helps neurologically impaired and their caregivers in their often heart-breaking journey to well-being. Dr. Rozentsvit is passionate about people and supporting the possibilities that all people are. This passion fueled her publishing endeavors, which realized into founding the ORI Academic Press (oriacademicpress.org), the MindMend Publishing Co., and the MindConsiliums (a trans-disciplinary journal with main focus on cross-pollination of knowledge and experience from various mental health, medicine, and science fields, mindconsiliums.org). Dr. Rozentsvit is the scientific faculty member, programs director, and administrator of the Object Relations Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (ORI, orinyc.org) in NYC.

Theresa Aiello, Member, IPhA Leadership Council:

Theresa Aiello, PhD, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst and was tenured until 2013 as tenured Associate Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. She was previously a musician and a graduate of The Juilliard School. She received her PhD in clinical social work from New York University. As Chair of Human Behavior at NYU, she designed and taught courses on Object Relations Theory, Critical Theories of Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory for the PhD program at NYU SSSW.

Her scholarly work has focused on narrativist theory and its application to childrens’ narratives, community narratives, psychoanalysis, and has written oral histories of the latter. She has been writing and conducting interviews on psychohistory and community and was invited to present her work (Jan 2022) by the Psychohistory Forum. Her presentation from a work currently in progress “Psychogeography, Identity and Biophilia in New York City’s East Village”. From “Unsettled Villages”. : The West and East Villages of New York City in a Time of Great Change”.  She has also presented on psychohistory and psychoanalysis on a Panel for the Psychohistory Association (May 2021: Psychoanalysis:  Past, Present and Where do we go Next?”

Dr Aiello is a scholar practioner and has a private practice in New York City.

Brian D’Agostino, Member, IPhA Leadership Council:

Past President of the IPhA (2020-2024), Brian D’Agostino is an interdisciplinary social scientist, educator, author, and speaker who holds Ph.D., Masters, and Bachelors degrees from Columbia University. His publications and other professional qualifications span psychology, mathematics, political-economy, and public policy.  Dr. D’Agostino is Editor of Disarmament Times and author of The Middle Class Fights Back: How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America (Praeger 2012). He has addressed the NYC Panel for Educational Policy and NYS Senate Education Committee and lectured for the general public and academic audiences. His publications have appeared in the peer-reviewed Political Science Quarterly, Political Psychology, The Journal of Psychohistory, and Review of Political Economy, as well as popular publications including New York Daily News, Z Magazine, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Living City.

Paul Elovitz, Member, IPhA Leadership council, Editor, Clio’s Psyche and listserv:

Dr. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, began organizing scholarly meetings when he started as a faculty member at Ramapo College and then as convener of the Institute for Psychohistory Saturday Workshops (1975-1982). In 1982, he founded the Psychohistory Forum to nurture psychohistorical research and continues to lead its Executive Council. In 1994, he created Clio’s Psyche (cliospsyche.org) to publish its scholarship, of which he is Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Elovitz is a historian, psychoanalytic researcher, and author of well over 400 publications, covering presidential psychobiography, teaching, documenting the field of psychohistory, and much more. After taking his doctoral degree in history, he trained and practiced as a psychoanalyst for three decades, and in 2019 was made the first Research Psychoanalyst by the New Jersey Institute for Psychoanalysis. Elovitz is the author of The Making of Psychohistory, editor of The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory, and edited or wrote eight other books. He is a founding member and past president of the International Psychohistorical Association (1978-) who held all but one of its offices and continues to serve on its leadership council. He is the sole founder of the IPhA who has attended and presented at all of its annual meetings. In recent years, he has devoted himself to editing, publishing, and writing psychobiography.  Prof. Elovitz was a founding faculty member at Ramapo College who previously taught at Temple, Rutgers, and Fairleigh Dickinson universities. Aside from teaching Western and World Civilizations, his focus on teaching was on American, English, and European history; childhood; gender; genocide; the Holocaust; identity; leadership; psychobiography; psychohistory; the psychology of creativity and innovation; and war and peace. Presently, he teaches post-graduate courses on creativity, psychoanalysis, psychobiography, and other aspects of psychohistory online at psychoanalytic institutes. A Festschrift honoring him is scheduled for publication in Clio’s Psyche in 2024.

Marcie Newton, Member, IPhA Leadership Council:

Marcie Newton, PhD, is a lecturer in the Program of Writing and Critical Inquiry at the University at Albany and a former Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal system and community. Marcie has been a member of the International Psychohistorical Association (IPhA) since 2015. She is a Research Associate of the Psychohistory Forum and peer reviewer for Clio’s Psyche. Marcie has articles published in Clio’s Psyche, Psychohistory News, and The Journal of Psychohistory, among other journals. She has written on a variety of topics including autobiographical fiction and authenticity, sexual trauma and psychosis, paradoxical notions of sexuality, the creative impulse, Brexit, female suicide bombers, Trump, Artificial Intelligence in higher education, and at-risk students. She has reviews published on psychohistory, politics, poetry, theater, and memoir.

Peter W. Petschauer, Member, IPhA Leadership Council:

Peter W. Petschauer, Ph D, New York University, worked at Appalachian State University, 1968-2006. Initially taught courses in European and Russian History, later women and children.

On two arts-related boards at ASU; on two boards of psychohistorical journals. Seasons — of Life and of Understanding, poetry (2024); Was man so Alles lernt (2023); In Troubled Times Beauty. Listen to Rarely Heard Voices, poetry; An Immigrant in the 1960s. Finding Hope and Success in New York City; Hopes and Fears. Past and Present, poetry; A Perfect Portrait,about a young female artist in 18^th-century Weimar; In the Face of Evil. The Sustenance of Traditions; The Father and the SS.

Over 200 articles in journals and collections, several hundred lectures and talks. Avid collector of art and now also writer of poetry. Currently researching transgenerational trauma in agricultural settings (https://www.peterpetschauer.com)

Krystyna Sanderson, Member, IPhA Leadership Council:

Krystyna Sanderson, Psy.D., LP, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. She is an instructor at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute. She is a supervisor of psychoanalytic students and a dissertation adviser of doctoral students. She writes and lectures regularly on topics dealing with psychoanalysis in relation to art, spirituality, and the application of psychoanalytic principles to social and historical phenomena. Sanderson is a contributing author of The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion and the author of a photo essay, Light at Ground Zero: St. Paul’s Chapel After 9/11. She is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP).

Howard Stein, Member, IPhA Leadership Council:

Howard F. Stein is an applied, psychoanalytic, medical, and organizational anthropologist; psychohistorian; organizational consultant; and poet. He is Professor Emeritus, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, US, where he taught for nearly 35 years. Author, co-author, and editor of some 35 books, he has published 12 books and chapbooks of poetry, the most recent of which is Standing in the Chaos (IPBooks, 2024). He has published several hundred papers, chapters, and poems. He is poet laureate of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology, and Psychohistorical Poet Laureate.

David Lotto, Editor, The Journal of Psychohistory:

Susan Hein, Publisher, The Journal of Psychohistory:

Dr. Nina E. Cerfolio, MD, DFAPA, is an internationally recognized NYC psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Associate Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. With over 30 years of experience—including serving as Chief of the Psychiatric Emergency Room at St. Vincent’s Hospital—she specializes in mass shootings and terrorism. Dr. Cerfolio uniquely integrates traditional psychiatry with deep spiritual training to help patients transcend emotional suffering.

A widely featured media expert (The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, CBS), she has been honored as one of Castle Connolly’s Exceptional Women in Medicine. She is the author of Psychoanalytic and Spiritual Perspectives on Terrorism (Routledge) and is currently writing her upcoming book, Before the First Shot: How Educators and Parents Can Prevent School Shootings (Bloomsbury, Rowman/Littlefield). Learn more at ninacerfolioMD.com.