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PSYCHOHISTORY NEWS
NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

Volume 44 Number 3-4
Summer-Fall 2025

Inna Rozentsvit, Acting Editor

Editorial & Conference Invitation

  1. International Psychohistorical Association (IPhA) Leadership Team. (2026). Breaking cycles of violence: Psychohistorical perspectives on individual and collective healing – An invitation to the IPhA 49th Annual Conference. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 1.

Psychohistorical Reflections on Contemporary Crises

  1. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Systematic failures in recognizing and treating youth mental health crises: Psychohistorical reflections on a plenary presentation by Dr. Nina E. Cerfolio. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 2.
  2. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Sources of hope in a runaway world: Psychoanalytic perspectives on resilience and transformation (based on a presentation by Jeffrey B. Rubin at the 48th Annual Conference of the IPhA). Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 3.

Memory, Mourning, and the Foundations of Psychohistory

  1. Stein, H. F. (2025). Vanished and sorely missed [poem]. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 4.
  2. Elovitz, P.H. (2025). Lloyd deMause’s contributions to psychohistory: Remembering the founder of the IPhA. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 5.
  3. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Robert Jay Lifton’s living legacy to psychohistory. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 6.
  4. Elovitz, P.H. (2025). Remembering three builders of psychohistory: Barry, Fitzpatrick, and Szaluta. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 7.
  5. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Anna Ornstein (1927–2025): Survival, empathy, and the moral imagination. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 8.
  6. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Talking colors, seeing words, hearing images: Remembering Sandra Indig. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 9.

Women, Care, and Structural Forgetting

  1. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Women’s voices in psychohistory and psychoanalysis: Supportive labor, structural forgetting, and the work of recovery. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 10.

Integration, Meaning, and Human Adaptation

  1. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Incubating the Future: Neuroplasticity, Meaning, and the Adaptive Mind. A Reflection on a Neuropsychoanalytic Symposium. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 11.

Institutional Childhood and Developmental Trauma

  1. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). The Un-Making of Them: Boarding school trauma, survival, and the psychohistory of institutional childhood. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 12.

Moral Injury, Selective Empathy, and Contemporary Atrocity

  1. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). The psychohistory of selective empathy: Feminist silence, moral splitting, and the aftermath of October 7. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 13.

Perspectives and Positions
Articles presenting divergent perspectives on Israel, Gaza, and claims of genocide examined through historical, ethical, and psychohistorical lenses.

  1. Lotto, D. (2025). Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 14.
  2. D’Agostino, B. (2025). Israel and genocide. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 15.
  3. Fuchsman, K. (2025). Israel in Gaza: Genocide or not genocide? A report on both sides of the controversy. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 16.
  4. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Editorial response: Psychohistorical clarifications on violence, proportion, and moral injury after October 7. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 17.
  5. Bulletin Board
  6. Contacts

If you are interested in publishing your psychohistorical or/and psychobiographical essays and poems, as well as the book reviews, please visit the Clio’s Psyche or the Journal of Psychohistory websites for more information. The following are the current Calls for Papers from Clio’s Psyche:

The Psychology of a Frightened World: Mapping Anger, Anxiety, Fear, and Paths Toward Healing (due December 31, 2025)

Reflections on Grandparenthood: Meanings, Joys, and Sorrows (due January 15th, 2026)

Honoring and Remembering Robert Jay Lifton (1926–2025) (due February 15th, 2026)

Integrating Psychoanalytic Concepts into Modern Psychohistorical & Psychobiographical Scholarship (due February 28, 2026)

Reflections on How Psychoanalysis & Other Depth Therapies Changed Your Life (due April 1, 2026)

Psychobiography (Ongoing)


TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. International Psychohistorical Association (IPhA) Leadership Team. (2026). Breaking cycles of violence: Psychohistorical perspectives on individual and collective healing — An invitation to the IPhA 49th Annual Conference. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 1.
  2. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Systematic failures in recognizing and treating youth mental health crises: Psychohistorical reflections on a plenary presentation by Dr. Nina E. Cerfolio. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 2.
  3. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Sources of hope in a runaway world: Psychoanalytic perspectives on resilience and transformation (based on a presentation by Jeffrey B. Rubin at the 48th Annual Conference of the IPhA). Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 3.
  4. Stein, H. F. (2025). Vanished and sorely missed [poem]. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 4.
  5. Elovitz, P.H. (2025). Lloyd deMause’s contributions to psychohistory: Remembering the founder of the IPhA. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 5.
  6. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Robert Jay Lifton’s living legacy to psychohistory. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 6.
  7. Elovitz, P.H. (2025). Remembering three builders of psychohistory: Barry, Fitzpatrick, and Szaluta. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 7.
  8. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Anna Ornstein (1927–2025): Survival, empathy, and the moral imagination. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 8.
  9. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Talking colors, seeing words, hearing images: Remembering Sandra Indig. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 9.
  10. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Women’s voices in psychohistory and psychoanalysis: Supportive labor, structural forgetting, and the work of recovery. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 10.
  11. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Incubating the Future: Neuroplasticity, Meaning, and the Adaptive Mind. A Reflection on a Neuropsychoanalytic Symposium. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 11.
  12. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). The Un-Making of Them: Boarding school trauma, survival, and the psychohistory of institutional childhood. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 12.
  13. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). The psychohistory of selective empathy: Feminist silence, moral splitting, and the aftermath of October 7. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 13.
  14. Lotto, D. (2025). Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 14.
  15. D’Agostino, B. (2025). Israel and genocide. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 15.
  16. Fuchsman, K. (2025). Israel in Gaza: Genocide or not genocide? A report on both sides of the controversy. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 16.
  17. Rozentsvit, I. (2025). Editorial response: Psychohistorical clarifications on violence, proportion, and moral injury after October 7. Psychohistory News, 44(3/4), 17.
  18. Bulletin Board
  19. Contacts
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