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Winter 2019 Psychohistorian Interviews by Ken Fuchsman Psychohistory News Newsletter of the International Psychohistorical Association Volume 38, Number 1 – Winter 2019 Psychohistorian Interviews by Ken Fuchsman Trevor C. Pederson Psychohistory News interviews the author on his second book, Pychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom, published by Routledge in October. continued on page six Joseph G. Ponterotto A Psychobiography of John F. Kennedy, Jr.: Understanding His Inner Life, Achievements, Struggles, and Courage was published last November. An interview with the author follows. continued on page three PSYCHOHISTORY BULLETIN BOARD, PAGE 8 HUMAN DIGNITY AND HUMILIATION STUDIES, 2018 CONFERENCE REPORT, PAGE 2 Page 2 Conference Report Dignity, Leadership, and the Ecological Crisis by Brian D’Agostino, Ph.D. The 32nd biannual conference of empower those around them. He Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s pro- the Human Dignity and Humilia- illustrated the transformative power posed Green New Deal, America’s tion Studies (HumanDHS) net- of relationships with a moving story most ambitious ecological pro- work occurred at Columbia about his own lifelong struggle with posal, would allocate two trillion University Teachers College on ADHD. Rick described the cumula- dollars over ten years to building December 6th and 7th, 2018. Like tive negative and positive impacts green infrastructure, while the previous HumanDHS events, this of encounters with teachers during scale of investment actually was less a traditional academic his adolescence and felt his life was required to avert ecological threat conference and more a workshop on a trajectory of failure when he is more on the scale of 2.4 trillion in multi-cultural relationship and graduated from high school. At this dollars per year, more than ten community building. This report critical time, a single teacher’s times as much. Britton did not only scratches the surface of the expression of love and recognition pretend to have easy answers to conference and focuses on two of of him as an individual had a this looming crisis. He suggested powerful impact on Slaven and the presentations. that the solution, if there is going turned the tide in his inner struggle. to be one, will come from a grass HumanDHS was cofounded in This story and his presentation as a roots response of billions of 2001 by transdisciplinary scholars whole illustrates the primacy that people, not from political and Evelin Lindner and Linda Hartling. HDHS places on emotional Lindner, who holds doctorates in intelligence and relationships in corporate leaders invested in the medicine and psychology, is the diagnosing what is wrong with the existing system. He suggested that author of five books, most recently world and charting a way forward. each individual in attendance Honor, Humiliation, and Terror: could begin by tapping experi- An Explosive Mix—And How We Psychologist Michael Britton, Ed.D., ences of our love of nature and Can Defuse It with Dignity gave the Don Klein Memorial come to terms with the profound (Dignity Press, 2017). Hartling, a Lecture. His topic this year was the feelings of loss that accompany an psychologist and former Associate ecological crisis in the 21st Century. awareness of the ecological Director of Wellesley College’s He discussed the 2018 report Global devastation that is occurring. He Warming of 1.5 C by the Inter- Jean Baker Miller Training suggested that the principle of love governmental Panel on Climate Institute, created the Humiliation is going to be paramount as we Change and the inadequacy of Inventory, a self-report scale for navigate the mass suffering that mainstream responses to this assessing the internal experience the 21st Century will bring. of humiliation. scientific consensus. Global warm- ing of 1.5 C above pre-industrial The first presentation reviewed average temperature is expected to here was “The Language of greatly exacerbate the unusually Brian D’Agostino, Ph.D. is an Leading with Dignity,” by Richard severe wildfires, droughts, preci- educator, researcher, and the Slaven, Ph.D. A nuclear engineer pitation and storms the world has Editor of Psychohistory News. by training, Slaven made his career encountered in recent years. Such He is the author of numerous in public school teaching and temperature rise threatens to flood publications on political psycho- administration, then as Admin- 80% of the world’s major cities. logy and public affairs including istrator for the Brandeis University And yet the 2016 Paris Agreement The Middle Class Fights Back: School of Physics. His theme was (from which the Trump Administra- How Progressive Movements Can that effective leaders in all fields tion is withdrawing), even with Restore Democracy in America. are not people who elevate them- supplements, will not suffice to Visit his website at selves, but who educate and maintain the 1.5 C cap. bdagostino.com Page 3 International Psychohistorical Association Contacts Ken Fuchsman, President [email protected] Gilda Graff, Vice President [email protected] Marc-André Cotton, International Vice President [email protected] Theresa Aiello, Secretary [email protected] Denis J. O’Keefe, Treasurer [email protected] Inna Rozentsvit, Communications Director [email protected] Brian D'Agostino, Editor, Psychohistory News [email protected] Susan Hein, Publisher, The Journal of Psychohistory [email protected] Paul Elovitz, Editor, Clio’s Psyche and listserv [email protected] Howard Stein, Member, IPA Leadership Council [email protected] PONTEROTTO ON working as an Assistant District in which the subjects lived, and JOHN F. KENNEDY, JR. Attorney (DA) for four years with both strive to provide objective the Manhattan DA’s office, he left and balanced profiles of their continued from page one law to co-found and edit George, subjects. Psychobiography, how- a cutting-edge magazine at the ever, is anchored in psychological In the following, Kenneth A. intersection of politics, media, and theory and a focus on the entertainment. underlying drives, motivations, Fuchsman (KAF) interviews and inner thoughts and feelings Joseph G. Ponterotto (JGP). As an internationally visible and that led to the subject’s lived life. recognizable figure, how would he KAF: What makes John F. forge a life? Psychobiographers KAF: Your particular psychobio- Kennedy Jr. a subject of often focus on unanswered ques- graphical approach includes significant historical, biographi- tions in the life of historic figures, specific psychological theories cal, and psychological interest? and these are some of the mysteries ranging from Erikson to positive I worked to unravel in this book. psychology. What are the JGP: As the only surviving son advantages to your approach? of President John F. Kennedy and KAF: You are a psychobiogra- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, pher. What is psychobiography? JGP: In the first three decades of JFK Jr. was a person of high How is it similar to and different the 20th century, psychoanalytic public interest. His father was from biography, and psycho- theory anchored a majority of taken down by an assassin’s history? psychobiographies. At mid-cen- bullet in 1963 and his father- tury, the theoretical horizons of figure uncle, Bobby Kennedy was JGP: I have defined psychobiogra- the field began to expand in large assassinated less than five years phy as “the intensive life-span part due to studies of individual later. How does a young child study of an individual of historic life at Harvard University by Erik cope with such loses? How does significance in socio-cultural con- Erikson, Henry Murray, and one develop his own personal and text using psychological and Gordon Allport, who employed career identity in the shadow of a historiographic research methods new concepts and methodologies. beloved, martyred father and and interpreted from established Psychobiographers also began to uncle? These are questions of theories of psychology.” Biogra- recognize that human life is too interest to both biographers and phy and psychobiography have complicated and complex to psychologists. many characteristics in common: understand from one theoretical both rely on rigorous biographical lens. JFK Jr. also earned biographers’ and historiographic research; both and historians’ attention by the interpret the lives of their subjects In my study of JFK Jr., I strength of his personality. After in the context of the historic period integrated theories in the Page 4 psychodynamic tradition (Winni- Over time, I was able to home in, JGP: John F. Kennedy, Jr. may cott) and lifespan development with a high degree of confidence, have been the first person born (Erikson, Levinson, and Arnett). and answer many of the questions instantaneously famous. Given Many historic figures have been posited. his famous family and the grow- examined from a deficit or ing popularity of television in the pathological model; I wanted to KAF: After his biological father early 1960s, John grew up in the also study JFK Jr.’s life from a was assassinated, his chief parent public eye. This fame posed strengths-based model, which is was Jackie. How did she challenges to his private life. As the recent emphasis in positive encourage, shape, and limit John’s a child, with the wisdom and psychology. personal and career development? mentoring of his mother, his uncles Bobby and Teddy Ken- KAF: In embarking on a research JGP: After President Kennedy’s nedy, his older sister and cousins, project, an investigator needs to assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy John learned how to navigate the ascertain what evidence is soon relocated to New York City. obstacle course of fame early in pertinent. How did you do that? Bobby Kennedy took on a father- life. This was not the case for his like role. When Bobby was adult romantic partners. His wife assassinated, Jackie and her Carolyn Bessette Kennedy strug- JGP: What material is most children were retraumatized. In gled with the constant paparazzi relevant in the study of a many ways, Jackie was both a attention, and this was a source of historical figure is a critical mother and father-figure to John stress also for John and their question.
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