Understanding the Past, Shaping the Future
Who We Are
We are academics, clinicians, and other practitioners from diverse disciplines who seek to understand how history and public affairs shape and are shaped by individual and group psychology. The IPA is open to all who wish to study, teach, and conduct research in psychohistory.
42st ANNUAL IPA CONFERENCE, 5/22-5/24, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the New York University Silver School of Social Work
Theme: The Intersection of Psychology and History
Sub-Theme: The Contributions of Michael Eigen to Human Understanding
The International Psychohistorical Association is currently accepting registrations for its 42nd Annual Conference to be held May 22-24, 2019 at New York University. Register here.
Continuing Education Units will be offered for NYS Licensed Social Workers, Psychoanalysts, Mental Health Counselors, and Marriage And Family Therapists.
If you have questions about the conference or any other matter contact Ken Fuchsman at [email protected]
More information about the featured speakers of IPA 2019:
Michael Eigen, is a psychoanalyst and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology (Adjunct) in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. His first book was published when he was 50 years old in 1986. Since then he has authored over 25 books including Toxic Nourishment, The Psychotic Core, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, The Sensitive Self, Feeling Matters, Faith, and Flames from the Unconscious. He directed an institute program for working with creative individuals at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and was the first Director of Educational Training at the Institute for Expressive Analysis. He was on the Board of Directors at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis for eight years, first as Program Chair, then editor of The Psychoanalytic Review.
Susan Kavaler Adler is founder and Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice as a psychologist and psychoanalysts in New York City. She has published more than 60 peer reviewed articles and five psychoanalytic books, including The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers, The Creative Mystiques: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity, Mourning Spirituality and Psychic Change, and The Anatomy of Regret.
Nancy Chodorow is a sociologist and psychoanalyst who taught for years at the University of California and is now at Harvard. Her 1978 landmark book, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the last quarter century. Some of her other books also address psychoanalysis and feminism, including Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice, Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory, The Power f Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Culture, and Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond.
Michael A. Diamond is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Organizational Studies at the University of Missouri. His 1993 volume The Unconscious Life of Organizations was awarded a special prize by the American Psychological Association. He has also written Private Selves in Public Organizations and most recently Discovering Organizational Identity. He is past President, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.
David Greenberg is Professor of History and Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His 2016 Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency examines the rise of the White House spin machine, from the Progressive Era to the present day, and the debates that Americans have waged over its implications for democracy. His first book, Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image won the Washington Monthly Annual Political Book Award, the American Journalism History Award, and Columbia University’s Bancroft Dissertation Award. Calvin Coolidge was published in December 2006 and appeared on the Washington Post’s list of best books of 2007. Presidential Doodles (Basic Books, 2006) was widely reviewed and featured on CNN, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and CBS’s “Sunday Morning.”
Kirk Anthony James is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. He earned his doctorate from the School of Social Policy and Practice at The University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation, “The Invisible Epidemic in Social Work Academia,” examined the complex phenomena of mass incarceration through a historical and contemporary lens. He focuses on deconstructing issues of mass incarceration –– specifically as it pertains to trauma, cognitive development, culpability, and the examination of systems that foster and perpetuate racial injustice. He works collaboratively with the Center For Justice at Columbia University on its annual “Beyond The Bars” conference –– which seeks to create a more informed understanding, and subsequent response to mass incarceration.
LINKS TO ANALYSES OF CURRENT EVENTS AND OTHER ARTICLES FROM PSYCHOHISTORY NEWS
(CLICK ON Issue/year FOR ANY NEWSLETTER ISSUE.)
Winter 2018
Report on a book party for The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, by Ken Fuchsman
Dignity, Humiliation, and Social Transformation, by Brian D'Agostino
The Role of Affects, Part II: Reflections From Theory and Experience, by Dorothea Leicher
Call for Proposals for IPA 2018 Conference, May 30 - June 1, NYU
Psychohistory Bulletin Board
Fall 2017
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
Summer 2017
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
Spring 2017
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