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WINTER-SPRING 2026

Volume 45, No. 1-2

Inna Rozentsvit, Acting Editor

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Perceptual Control Theory and Clinical Practice, by Brian D’Agostino, Ph.D. Scott Pelley: Seeking the Truth in a Century of Serial Shock, by Ken Fuchsman, Ed.D.

NYU Hosts Major IPA Success This May, by Ken Fuchsman, Ed.D. 2020 Conference Planning; Vamik Volkan to Keynote, by Ken Fuchsman, Ed.D. Confronting White Supremacy in America, by Harriet Fraad

2019 IPA Conference: Michael Eigen, Nancy Chodorow and other featured speakers 2019 IPA Conference: Anti-Semitism papers Book News: What Makes Us Human?, by Ken Fuchsman, Ed.D.

Interview with Joseph Ponterotto on his psychobiography of JFK, Jr. Interview with Trevor Pederson on his film and psychoanalysis book Report on the 2018 Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Conference

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, interview by Ken Fuchsman with Hattie Myers and Mafe Izaguirre Psychohistorian Interview with Alice Maher on Catalysis: A Recipe to Slow Down or Abort Humankind’s Leap to War Report from Europe by Marc-André Cotton

2019 IPA Conference to Feature Michael Eigen and Nancy Chodorow Psychohistorian Interview with Paul Elovitz on The Making of Psychohistory Harvey Kaplan on Frank Sinatra: The Swinging Narcissist

On Charlottesville–White Supremacist Riot as Psychohistorical Condensation, by Howard Stein Mourning a Legacy of Racial Violence: Narrative and Intergenerational Trauma, by Molly Castelloe Affects, Industrial Society, and Human Ecology, by Dorothea Leicher

IPA at 40: Conference Report, by Ken Fuchsman Janice Gump on the Continuing Effects of Slavery, by Gilda Graff David Beisel: Psychohistorian Extraordinaire, by Paul H. Elovitz and Peter Petschaeur Psychohistory Bulletin Board

Trevor Pederson on The Economics of Libido, interview by Ken Fuchsman Attachment Theory and Early Shared Reading Experiences, by Andrea Greer Remembering George W. Brown, by Paul Elovitz

Finding and Being Found: Thoughts on the Evolution of Howard Stein’s book Light and Shadow One’s Life Through the Looking Glass of Neuropsychiatric Disorder, by Dolores Brandon Peter Petschauer’s New Novel on Women in 18th Century Germany: An Interview

Psychohistorian Interviews with Charles B. Strozier and Eli Zaretsky Affect, Art, and Personal History, by Dorothea Leicher J.A.S.P.E.R. by Burton Seitler and Grace Jackson

Wounded Centuries, by Ken Fuchsman On Race in Trinidad and Tobago, by Keisha V. Thompson Art by Sandra Indig Reconstruction of Reality, by Ted L. Cox

A House Divided: The Republicans in 2016, by Ken Fuchsman President’s Report: The IPA Two Years Later, by Brian D’Agostino Art by Sandra Indig Bringing Psychohistory to One of France’s Biggest Eco-Fairs, by Marc-Andre Cotton

Understanding the Republican Group Fantasy, by Brian D’Agostino In the Wake of Terrorist Attacks, by Marc-André Cotton Fathering a Nation, he Sacrificed his Sons, by Souvik Raychaudhuri

Behind the Crisis in Syria, by Brian D’Agostino Mass Incarceration: Legacy of Racial Caste in America, by Gilda Graff Mass Shootings and the Crisis of American Masculinity, by Harriet Fraad

The Paris and Copenhagen Mass Shootings, by Marc-Andre Cotton, p. 1 Is Psychohistory a Science? (Clio’s Psyche Internet dialogue), p. 1 A Clash of Barbarisms (Editorial on Islamic State), p. 2 Modi’s India: Authoritarianism or Democracy, by Souvik Raychaudhuri, p. 8

Changing the World: Teaching Parenting in Schools, Margaret Kind, p. 1 Life Affirming Strategies in the Maintenance of Existential Anxiety, Kristina Blake, p. 1 Psychic Slavery and Trust in African American Intimate Relationships, Sametta Hill, p. 1

A Courageous Jew For Our Time, by Norman Simms, p. 8 2014 IPA Convention Highlights, p. 1

Changing the World: The Emotional Imprint Program, by Alice Maher, p. 1 Review of Goelitz and Stewart-Kahn’s From Trauma to Healing, by Maria Mini, p. 5 Dialogue on Violence: Reply to Florian Galler, by Brian D’Agostino, p. 8

Restoring the Mind of Black America (review essay), by Gilda Graff, p. 1 2013 IPA Convention Highlights, p. 1 We are the Monsters! Critical Review of the IPA Statement on Violence, by Florian Galler, p. 8

How to End Violence in America, Statement of the International Psychohistorical Association, p. 12 Mass Killing: Why Are American Men Now “Going Postal?” by Harriet Fraad p. 1 On America’s Gun Culture, by Charles Strozier, p. 4

Perceptual Control Theory and Clinical Practice, by Brian D’Agostino, Ph.D.
Scott Pelley: Seeking the Truth in a Century of Serial Shock, by Ken Fuchsman, Ed.D.

NYU Hosts Major IPA Success This May, by Ken Fuchsman, Ed.D.
2020 Conference Planning; Vamik Volkan to Keynote, by Ken Fuchsman, Ed.D.
Confronting White Supremacy in America, by Harriet Fraad

2019 IPA Conference: Michael Eigen, Nancy Chodorow and other featured speakers
2019 IPA Conference: Anti-Semitism papers
Book News: What Makes Us Human?, by Ken Fuchsman, Ed.D.

Interview with Joseph Ponterotto on his psychobiography of JFK, Jr.
Interview with Trevor Pederson on his film and psychoanalysis book
Report on the 2018 Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Conference

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, interview by Ken Fuchsman with Hattie Myers and Mafe Izaguirre
Psychohistorian Interview with Alice Maher on Catalysis: A Recipe to Slow Down or Abort Humankind’s Leap to War
Report from Europe by Marc-André Cotton

2019 IPA Conference to Feature Michael Eigen and Nancy Chodorow
Psychohistorian Interview with Paul Elovitz on The Making of Psychohistory
Harvey Kaplan on Frank Sinatra: The Swinging Narcissist

On Charlottesville–White Supremacist Riot as Psychohistorical Condensation, by Howard Stein
Mourning a Legacy of Racial Violence: Narrative and Intergenerational Trauma, by Molly Castelloe
Affects, Industrial Society, and Human Ecology, by Dorothea Leicher

IPA at 40: Conference Report, by Ken Fuchsman
Janice Gump on the Continuing Effects of Slavery, by Gilda Graff
David Beisel: Psychohistorian Extraordinaire, by Paul H. Elovitz and Peter Petschaeur
Psychohistory Bulletin Board

Trevor Pederson on The Economics of Libido, interview by Ken Fuchsman
Attachment Theory and Early Shared Reading Experiences, by Andrea Greer
Remembering George W. Brown, by Paul Elovitz

Finding and Being Found: Thoughts on the Evolution of Howard Stein’s book Light and Shadow
One’s Life Through the Looking Glass of Neuropsychiatric Disorder, by Dolores Brandon
Peter Petschauer’s New Novel on Women in 18th Century Germany: An Interview

Psychohistorian Interviews with Charles B. Strozier and Eli Zaretsky
Affect, Art, and Personal History, by Dorothea Leicher
J.A.S.P.E.R. by Burton Seitler and Grace Jackson

Wounded Centuries, by Ken Fuchsman
On Race in Trinidad and Tobago, by Keisha V. Thompson
Art by Sandra Indig
Reconstruction of Reality, by Ted L. Cox

A House Divided: The Republicans in 2016, by Ken Fuchsman
President’s Report: The IPA Two Years Later, by Brian D’Agostino
Art by Sandra Indig
Bringing Psychohistory to One of France’s Biggest Eco-Fairs, by Marc-Andre Cotton

Understanding the Republican Group Fantasy, by Brian D’Agostino
In the Wake of Terrorist Attacks, by Marc-André Cotton
Fathering a Nation, he Sacrificed his Sons, by Souvik Raychaudhuri

Behind the Crisis in Syria, by Brian D’Agostino
Mass Incarceration: Legacy of Racial Caste in America, by Gilda Graff
Mass Shootings and the Crisis of American Masculinity, by Harriet Fraad

The Paris and Copenhagen Mass Shootings, by Marc-Andre Cotton, p. 1
Is Psychohistory a Science? (Clio’s Psyche Internet dialogue), p. 1
A Clash of Barbarisms (Editorial on Islamic State), p. 2
Modi’s India: Authoritarianism or Democracy, by Souvik Raychaudhuri, p. 8

Changing the World: Teaching Parenting in Schools, Margaret Kind, p. 1
Life Affirming Strategies in the Maintenance of Existential Anxiety, Kristina Blake, p. 1
Psychic Slavery and Trust in African American Intimate Relationships, Sametta Hill, p. 1

A Courageous Jew For Our Time, by Norman Simms, p. 8
2014 IPA Convention Highlights, p. 1

Changing the World: The Emotional Imprint Program, by Alice Maher, p. 1
Review of Goelitz and Stewart-Kahn’s From Trauma to Healing, by Maria Mini, p. 5
Dialogue on Violence: Reply to Florian Galler, by Brian D’Agostino, p. 8

Restoring the Mind of Black America (review essay), by Gilda Graff, p. 1
2013 IPA Convention Highlights, p. 1
We are the Monsters! Critical Review of the IPA Statement on Violence, by Florian Galler, p. 8

How to End Violence in America, Statement of the International Psychohistorical Association, p. 12
Mass Killing: Why Are American Men Now “Going Postal?” by Harriet Fraad p. 1
On America’s Gun Culture, by Charles Strozier, p. 4