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• Volume 25, Number 2, Fall 1997
  • Lloyd deMause The Psychogenic Theory of History 112
  • Dan Dervin Group-Fantasy and Its Discontents During the Clinton Administration 184
  • Robert Godwin Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Child? 194
  • David R. Beisel Europe's Killing Frenzy 201
  • Book Reviews
    • Andrew Brink: Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature, by Robert Rogers, and The Origins and Psychodynamics of Creativity, by Jerome D. Oremland 212
    • Herbert Barry, III: Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, by Frank J. Sulloway 213
• Volume 25, Number 3, Winter 1998
  • Lloyd deMause The History of Child Abuse
  • Michael D. Adzema The Emerging Perinatal Unconscious: Consciousness Evolution or Apocalypse?
  • Robert B. McFarland Improvements in Parenting are Real
  • juhani ihanus Transformations of Eros: Sexuality and the Family in Russia
  • stanley rosenman The Group-Fantasy That the World Plays Fair
    The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion, Melvin J. Lerner, New York: Plenum Press, 1980. 209 pp.
  • Paul H. Elovitz Birth Order Without Freud or Psychohistory: Sulloway as a Later-Born Darwinian Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, Frank J. Sulloway. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. xviii, 653 pp. $30.
  • R.W. Godwin The End of Psychohistory?
    The Authoritarian Specter, Bob Altemayer. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1996, 371pp. $39.95 (cloth)
  • The Politics of Denial, Michael Milburn and Sheree Conrad. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1996, 292pp. $24.95 (cloth)
  • The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska, John W. Decamp. 2nd edition; Lincoln, Neb.: AWT, Inc., 1996. xxv, 412pp. $9.95 (Paperback)
    Reviewed by Robert McFarland
  • Culture in Context: Selected Writings of Weston LaBarre. 2nd printing; NY: Psyche Press, 1994. 338pp. Reviewed by Norman Simms, Ph.D. Waikto University
  • Enactments: American Modes and Psychohistorical Models, Daniel Dervin. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. 356pp. $49.50 (Hardcover) Reviewed by Jay Sherry
  • Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial, Robert Jay Lifton & Greg Mitchell. N.Y.: Grosset/Putnam, 1995. xviii, 425pp. $27.50 (hardcover) Reviewed by David Lotto
    High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition, Stanley A Renshon. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 402pp. $24.95 (Hardcover) Reviewed by Brian D'AgostinoCUNY Center on Violence and Human Survival
  • Stealing Fire : The Atomic Bomb as Symbolic Body, Peter C. Reynolds. Palo Alto, Calif.: Iconic Anthropology Press, 1991. xiv, 278pp. $24.95 (PO Box 50217, Palo Alto, CA 94303) Reviewed by David Lotto
  • The Boys: The Untold Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors, Martin Gilbert. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. xv, 511pp. $30.00 (Hardcover) Reviewed by Albert Schmidt Brandeis University
• Volume 25, Number 4, Spring 1998
  • David R. Beisel Introducing the Joys of Psychohistory 330
  • Paul H. Elovitz Psychohistory in the Classroom 340
  • Karl Jost, Margaret Ribble, Joan Miller, & Lois Blais Teaching Psychohistory at Tennessee 348
  • Lloyd deMause The Phallic Presidency 354
  • Kenneth Alan Adams Femmes Fatales and Male Supremacy: A Meditation on Evil Sisters 358
  • Robert Godwin But Who Voted for Him? 366
  • John C. Sonne Is That All There Is? 370
  • Harriet Fraad Breaking Out of the Circle of Hell: The Autobiography of Louis Althusser 375
  • Jerry S. Piven Men, Religion, and Melancholia: James, Otto, Jung, and Erikson 380
  • Psychohistorians Discuss Psychohistory 387
  • Lloyd deMause 25-Year Subject Index 396
• Volume 26, Number 1, Summer 1998
  • Carl A. Mounteer God the Father and Gregory the Great: The Discovery of a Late Roman Childhood 436
  • Rudolph Binion Three Mourning Mothers: The Making and Unmaking of a Christian Figural Complex 449
  • Norman Simms Medieval Guilds, Passions and Abuse 478
  • Jerrold Atlas Medieval Crime, Violence, and Superstition: Symptomatic Dysfunction 514
  • Book Reviews
    • Sounding the Classics: From Sophocles to Thomas Mann, by Rudolph Binion 530 [Lloyd deMause]
    • A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews, by Avner Falk 532 [Leah G. Slivko]
    • Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality, by Bruce S. Thornton 535 [J. Donald Hughes]
    • National Character: A Psycho-Social Perspective, by Alex Inkeles et al. 537 [Juhani Ihanus]

• Volume 26, Number 2, Fall 1998
  • William K. Joseph Titanic America 540
  • Adam J. Green Titanic Fever: Why Then? Why Now? 546
  • Dan Dervin Nothing To Hide: Group-Fantasy and the Politics of Unreality 563
  • Alice Miller The Political Consequences of Child Abuse 573
  • Robert Rouselle Women's Dreams in Ancient Greece 586
  • David J. Lotto The Corporate Takeover of the Soul: The Current State of the American Health Care System 603
  • Stanley Rosenman, Ph.D. Compassionate Heroes, Bystanders and the Reformation of Society 610
  • Book Reviews
    • Richard Morrock The Enduring Effects of Prenatal Experience:
      Echoes From the Womb, by Ludwig Janus 625
    • B.K Faunce Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea
      of Human Interiority, by Carolyn Steedman 626
    • Carol Bird Ravenal The Artist and the Emotional World:
      Creativity and Personality, by John E. Gedo 628
    • Frederick Harling Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology
      of a Saint, by W.W. Meissner 629
    • Albert Schmidt Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939, by Saul Friedlander 631
    • Henry Lawton Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography, by Vamik D. Volkan 632
    • Walter T. Howard Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth Century America, by Wilma King 635
    • Geraldine Pauling The Truth about the Virgin: Sex and Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Ita Sheres and Anne Kohn Blau 637
    • Jerry S. Pivan Trauma and Self, ed. Charles B. Strozier & Michael Flynn 638
• Volume 26, Number 3, Winter 1999
  • Lloyd deMause - Childhood and Cultural Evolution 642
  • Paul E. Emery - Trauma in Psychohistory 724
  • John Fanton - The Roots of Violence 730
  • Peter W. Petschauer - History of Childhood, German Style 734
  • Henry Lawton - Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting; and Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture, by James R. Kincaid 742
  • Daniel Dervin - Immigrant Experiences: Personal Narratives and Psychological Analysis, ed. Paul H. Elovitz & Charlotte Kahn 746
  • Neil Wilson - Hitler: The Pathology of Evil, by George Victor 749
  • Richard Morrock - Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics, by Robert G. L. Waite 750
  • Ralph Frenken - Hurt ihr die Kinder lachen? Zur Kindheit im Sputmittelalter, by Elizabeth Loffl-Haag; and Kindheit und Gesellschaft in Mittelalter und Renaissance: Beitruge und Texte zur Geschichte der Kindheit, by Klaus Arnold 752
  • Ralph Frenken - Erzuhlform und Persunlichkeitsdarstellung in deutschsprachigen Autobiographien des 16. Jahrhunderts: ein Beitrag zur historischen Psychologie, by Stephen Pastenaci 758
  • John C. Sonne - The Enduring Effects of Prenatal Experience: Echoes from the Womb, by Ludwig Janus 759 Howard F. Stein - Comment 760
• Volume 26, Number 4, Spring 1999
  • Kenneth Alan Adams and Lester Hill, Jr. - Castration Anxiety in Japanese Group-Fantiasies
  • Brett Kahr - The History of Sexuality: From Ancient Polymorphous Perversity to Modern Genital Love
  • Charles Gouaux - A Critique of deMause's Psychogenic Theory of History
  • Robert B. McFarland - Stones, Stars, Mazes, and Placentas
  • ralph frenken - Child Witches in Renaissance Germany
  • Henk van Setten - Album Angels: Parent-Child Relations as Reflected in 19th-Century Photos, Made After the Death of a Child
  • Arthur D. Robbins - Psychiatry and Politics
  • Robert Rousselle - Defining Ancient Greek Sexuality
  • richard morrock - The World in an Orgone Box
  • Book Reviews
  • Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture, ed. Suzette Heald and Ariane Deluz. London: Routledge, l994.
    Reviewed by Robert Chaikin
  • The Corruption of Reality, John F. Schumaker. New York: Prometheus Books, 1995. 289pp.
    Reviewed by Jerry S. Piven - Syracuse University
  • The Hostage Child: Sex Abuse Allegations in Custody Disputes, Leora N. Rosen & Michelle Etlin. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, l996 xiv, 225 pp.
    Reviewed by Nannette Pierson Sachs
  • The Psychodynamics of Work and Organizations: Theory and Application, William M. Czander. NY: Guilford Press, 1993. vii, 408pp. $39.00 (Hardcover)
    Reviewed by Richard Varela - Walden University
• Volume 27, Number 1, Summer 1999
  • Juhani Ihanus - Between Old and New Psychoclasses 2
  • Olga Shutova - Post-Soviet Belarus: Childhood, Family and Identity 8
  • Dmitri Samokhvalov - Childhood and Adult Behavior
    of Belarussian Peasants in the Nineteenth Century 18
  • Stefan BorbŽly - Circling Around the 'Vatra':
    On the Romanian Psychogenics of Pollution and Abandonment 25
  • Victor Meladze - Beneath the Hammer 45
  • Alexander Ananin - Homeless Children in Russia 56
  • Daniel Rancour-Laferriere - Russians React to the Idea of Russian Masochism 59
  • Juhani Ihanus - Water, Birth and Stalin's Thirst for Power: Psychohistorical Roots of Terror 67
  • David R. Beisel - Peter Loewenberg's Psychohistories 85
  • Book Reviews
  • Kenneth Alan Adams - Rambo and the Dalai Lama:
    The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival,
    by Gordon Fellman 93
  • Robert McFarland - The Future and Its Enemies:
    The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress,
    by Virginia Postrel. 97
  • Robert McFarland - Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult, by Miriam Williams 98
  • Edryce Reynolds - Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons: The Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment, by Martha Grace 98

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