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 interdisciplinary field of psychohistory, utilizing the tools of applied psychoanalysis, history, psychobiography, clinical psychology, political psychology, philosophy, and related disciplines.Cristian Tileagă; Jovan Byford (20 February 2014). Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations. Cambridge University Press. pp. 83, 293–. . Publication is both in print and online.
Clio's Psyche's () 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 in 1994, it became a full length double-blind peer-reviewed open-access journal by 1999, one of several in the field,Paul H. Elovitz and David Cifelli, “Three Psychohistorical Journals,” Clio’s Psyche Vol. 22, No. 1-2 (June–September 2015): 74-80/Paul H. Elovitz, The Making of Psychohistory: Origins, Controversies, Pioneering Contributors (Routledge, 2018) producing three or four issues a year. All of the articles published in Clio's Psyche are identified with a DOI number by CrossRef.
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 Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA Denis O’Keefe, PhD New York University Peter W. Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University Vamık Volkan, MD University of Virginia
Past Editorial Board Members
Lawrence J. Friedman, PhD Harvard University Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut
Clio's Psyche 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)
Paul H. Elovitz Festschrift (Volume 31 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
Clio's Psyche also publishes detailed biographical memorials of deceased colleagues. These include memorials for:
Rudy Binion (1927-2011) George M Kren (1926-2000) Elizabeth Wirth-Marvick (1925-2005) Andrew Brink (1932-2011) Betty Glad (1928-2010) Anthony Storr (1920-2001) Leon Rappoport (1932-2009) Montague Ullman (1916-2008)
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.David Cifelli and Paul H. Elovitz, “Insights from Psychohistorical Journal Editors,” Clio’s Psyche Vol. 22, No. 1-2 (June–September 2015): 81-90Paul H. Elovitz, ed. The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory (Ori, 2021) Each proposed publication undergoes rigorous peer-reviewing double-blind process (usually with five peer-reviewers working on each submission).
The authors who publish their academic research in Clio's Psyche come from various universities and colleges: Brandeis, Brown, Harvard, Helsinki, Princeton, Rutgers, UConn, Texas, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale, and UCLA. Other authors come from within the clinical fields of medicine, psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, dentistry, and sports medicine.
See also Psychohistory Forum Journal of Psychohistory Psychobiography
References
External links Journal Home Page