''Clio’s Psyche: Understanding the “Why” of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society'': is an academic peer-reviewed journal established in 1994 by Professor Paul Elovitz of th
Psychohistory Forum
(1982–) to further the innovative, all encompassing, interdisciplinary field of psychohistory, utilizing the tools of applied

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, and related disciplines. Clio's Psyche's () mission is to nurture psychohistorical scholarship, to disseminate psychohistorical knowledge in non-technical language, to stimulat
transdisciplinary
thought, and to encourage academicians, clinicians, students, and lay public to research the "why's" of history - personal, group, and societal. Initially, it started as a newsletter and before long became a full length, double-blind refereed journal, one of several in the field. Its website is a
cliospsyche.org
''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 Peter J. Loewenberg (born August 1933 in Hamburg, Germany) is an American historian and psychoanalyst, professor of "European cultural, intellectual, German, Austrian and Swiss history, political Psychology, integrating the identities of an histor ...

, PhD UCLA * Denis O’Keefe, PhD New York University * Peter W. Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University *

Vamık Volkan Vamık D. Volkan, M.D., DFLAPA, FACPsa, (born 1932 in Lefkoşa, Cyprus) is a Turkish Cypriot born American psychiatrist, internationally known for his 40 years work bringing together conflictual groups for dialogue and mutual understanding. Amon ...

, MD University of Virginia ''Clio's Psyche'' has become one of the leading journals in the field of psychological history. Publication is both in print an
online
Every year ''Clio's Psyche'' publishes 3-4 issues, with additional special issues and "The Best of Clio's Psyche" publications. There have been numerous special issues and features, symposia an
festschrifts
honoring psychohistorians

Robert Jay Lifton Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of ...

, Vamik Volkan, and others. A major other activity has been t
interview over sixty contributors
to psychohistorical knowledge. It also publishes detailed biographical memorials of deceased colleagues. The background of the authors it publishes incline to be as follows: academics from many disciplines, clinicians from many different backgrounds, and laypeople interested in pursuing the life of the min.Paul H. Elovitz, ed. ''The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory'' (Ori, 2021) Submissions deemed suitable by the editors are refereed by scholars in a double blind system. Clio's academic authors come from various universities and colleges: Brandeis,

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, Helsinki,

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, Texas,

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, and

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. In recent decades, there are more clinicians from diverse backgrounds (medicine, psychology, psychotherapy, dentistry, sport medicine) are involved in writing for ''Clio's Psyche''.

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''Clio's Psyche's'' Editors and Editorial Board

Editors

Editorial Board

See also

References

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