around the globe and has for over 30 years published the Journal of Psychohistory. The International Psychohistorical Association was also founded by deMause and others in 1977 as a professional organization for the field of psychohistory. It publishes Psychohistory News and has a psychohistorical mail order lending library. The association hosts an annual convention. The Psychohistory Forum publishes the quarterly journal Clio's Psyche. It was founded in 1983 by historian and psychoanalyst Paul H. Elovitz. This organization of academics, therapists, and laypeople holds regular scholarly meetings in New York City and at international conventions. It also sponsors an online discussion group. In Germany, scientists taking an interest in psychohistory have met annually since 1987. In 1992, the Gesellschaft für Psychohistorie und politische Psychologie e.V. (“Society for Psychohistory and Political Psychology”) was founded. This society issues the Jahrbuch für Psychohistorische Forschung (“Annual of Psychohistorical Research”) Notable psychohistorians Lloyd deMause, founder of The Institute for Psychohistory. Peter Gay, Sterling Professor at Yale University, author. Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist specializing in psychological motivations for war and terrorism. Jerome Lee Shneidman, Editor of the Bulletin of the International Psychohistorical Association, established the Seminar in the History of Legal and Political Thought and Institutions at Columbia University. Vamik Volkan, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, University of Virginia professor emeritus, peacemaker, and Nobel Prize nominee. Fawn Brodie, Professor at UCLA, and historian and biographer of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Smith, and others. See also Bicameral mentality Child murder Helicopter parent Historicism Non-aggression principle Poisonous pedagogy Psychohistorical views on infanticide Religious abuse Trauma model of mental disorders Notes Bibliography deMause, Lloyd (2002). The Emotional Life of Nations, Publisher: Other Press; (available online at no cost) Lawton, Henry W., The Psychohistorian's Handbook, New York: Psychohistory Press, (1989) Loewenberg, Peter, Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach, Transaction Pub, (2002) Stannard, David E., Shrinking History, On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory, Oxford University Press, (1980). A critique of the Freudian approach to psychohistory. Szaluta, Jacques, Psychohistory: Theory and Practice, Publisher Peter Lang, (1999) External links The Institute for Psychohistory. This website contains over 1,500 pages of psychohistorical articles and books. International Psychohistorical Association. The professional organization for the field of psychohistory. Blind Trust: Leaders & followers in times of crisis: An acclaimed documentary film about the life and work of Vamik Volkan. Clio's Psyche and The Psychohistory Forum: Psychological and Historical Insight without jargon. German Society for Psychohistorical Research (in German). The