Understanding the Past, Shaping  the Future

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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.

International Psychohistorical Association's 45th Annual Conference

May 19-21, 2022 - Virtual Live

GROUP IDENTITY AND THE SOURCES OF CONFLICT

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Fall 2019

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.

Summer 2019

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

Spring 2019

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.

Winter 2019

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

Fall 2018

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

Summer 2018

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

Spring 2018

Psychohistorian Interview with George Makari on Soul Machine and Revolution in Mind

National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Conference, by Ken Fuchsman

Helix Center Roundtable on Mind and Brain, by Brian D'Agostino

James W. Anderson on Donald Winnicott, by Paul Elovitz

Boston Psychoanalytic Degree Program

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

Winter 2017

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

Fall 2016

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

Summer 2016

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

Spring 2016

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

Winter 2016

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

Fall 2015

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

Summer 2015

Hiroshima, Iran, and the Future of Nuclear Weapons, by Brian D'Agostino

White Genocide Fantasy and the Myth of the "Lone Wolf," by Denis O'Keefe

Mind's Wisdom: Neuroplasticity and Neurointegration as Tools for Post-traumatic Growth, by Inna Rozentsvit

Reflections on the Greek Bailout: The Agony of Greece, by Marc-Andre Cotton

Spring 2015

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

Winter 2015

The Politics of Memory, book by Faye Snyder, review by Valerie Rose Brinton, p. 1

How Much Does Child Rearing Really Impact History? (Clio's Psyche internet dialogue), p. 1

French Psychotherapists Fight Back, by Marc-Andre Cotton, p.3

Behind the CIA Torture Report: Sadism, Power, & Behavior Modification, by Brian D'Agostino, p. 8

Fall 2014

From Islamic State to Kiev: Apocalyptic Fantasy and American Power, by Brian D’Agostino, p. 1

The Disheartening Life of Ferguson's Michael Brown, by Gilda Graff,p. 1

In the Name of the Father: the Bush Years and the Legacy of Childrearing Violence, by Marc-André Cotton, p. 2

Exploding the Anti-Immigrant Group Fantasy, Ariel Goldberger Blau, p. 8

Summer 2014

Changing the World: Teaching Parenting in Schools, Margaret Kind, p. 1

Life Affirming Strategies in the Maintenance of Existential Anxiety, Kristina Blake, p. 1

Spring 2014

A Courageous Jew For Our Time, by Norman Simms, p. 8

2014 IPA Convention Highlights, p. 1

Winter 2014

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

Fall 2013

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

Winter 2013

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


Why Do They Support Torture? (podcast)