Periodically, we like to provide our readers with a description and some analysis of The Psychohistory Forum’s Work-In-Progress Saturday seminar meetings. This is done for the sake of our many Members-At-A-Distance who cannot regularly attend seminars, subscribers to Clio’s Psyche who are considering membership, and those who have just now heard of the Forum and would like to know what we do. One topic was “The Next Assignment of Psychohistory.” The presenters were chosen for their ability to represent a variety of different fields and viewpoints. They were: Ralph Colp, representing psychoanalytically inclined psychiatry; Jerry Piven, representing psychoanalytic psychology; Robert Quackenbush and Henry Lawton as social workers; Jacques Szaluta (in absentia) and the author as historian-psychoanalysts. The sharpest dichotomy among fields was drawn by Ralph Colp and Mary Lambert who, while not a formal presenter, had promised to give her own perspective on social work.
Paul Elovitz (Sat,) studied this question.