Clio's Psyche
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 the to further the innovative, all encompassing, interdisciplinary field of psychohistory, utilizing the tools of applied psychoanalysis, history, psychobiography, clinical psychology, political psychology, philosophy, and related disciplines.
Clio's Psyche's mission is to nurture psychohistorical scholarship, to disseminate psychohistorical knowledge in non-technical language, to stimulate 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 at . 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, PhD UCLA
- Denis O’Keefe, PhD New York University
- Peter W. Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University
- Vamık Volkan, MD University of Virginia
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. 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, Brown, Harvard, Helsinki, Princeton, Rutgers, UConn, Texas, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale, and UCLA. In recent decades, there are more clinicians from diverse backgrounds are involved in writing for Clio's Psyche.