Discusses Klee’s capacity to play with sexuality and gender identity in his art, and his sense that art allowed him to merge the male and female components of his personality.

Simmons, Diane. “The Curse of Empire: Grandiosity and Guilt in the Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle.” Psychoanalytic Review 89.4 (2002): 533-556.

Examines Doyle’s history of loss and his “narcissistic dualism” to gain an understanding of the psychic life of the British public during the high point of imperialism.

Olive, Alan. “It’s all the Rage: A Study of a Cultural Icon.” Psychoanalytic Review 89.5 (2002): 665-680.

Eminem is the cultural icon in question here, and his record “The Marshall Mathers LP” is treated as an “autobiography rendered in the demanding rhythms of rap.” It—the disc—is also felt to serve “as a point of reference for an initial understanding of the psychic experience of those fans screaming ‘Fuck you!’” Much use is made of Eminem’s difficult childhood.

Kirsch, Thomas. “Jungian Diaspora.” Psychoanalytic Review 89.5 (2002): 715-720.

Discusses the situations of Jews who sought out Jung before World War II and then later became Jungian analysts, some going on to found new Jungian professional groups in foreign countries.

Gartland, Diane. “Liberation Discourse: A Psychoanalysis of Prison Captivity.”

Unpacks the constituents and social function of the “other.”

Hamilton, James. “Freud and the Suicide of Pauline Silberstein.” Psychoanalytic Review 89.6 (2002): 889-909.

Pauline Silberstein was the wife of one of Freud’s closest friends from adolescence. Her suicide in 1891 is examined in this essay, as well as her relationship with Freud.

Charles, Marilyn. “Dreamscapes: Portrayals of Rectangular Spaces in Doris Lessing’s ‘Memoirs of a Survivor’ and in Dreams.” Psychoanalytic Review 90.1 (2003): 1-22.

Explores the “elusive meanings” of rectangular spaces in Lessing’s novel, which takes the form of a dream within a dream.

LaMothe, Ryan. “Poor Ebenezer: Avarice as Corruption of the Erotic and Search for a Transformative Object.” Psychoanalytic Review 90.1 (2003): 23-43.

Uses the story of Scrooge from Dickins’ “A Christmas Carol” to illustrate characteristics of greed.

Chodorow, Nancy. “Born Into a World at War: Listening for Affect and Personal Meaning.” American Imago 59.3 (2002): 297-315.

Describes how working within dualities of internal and external reality and primary and secondary process thinking facilitates listening to and interpreting the stories of a group of people born towards the end of World War II.

Levine, Michael. “Necessary Stains: Spiegelman’s MAUS and the Bleeding of History.” American Imago 59.3 (2002): 317-341.

Spiegelman once remarked that his father “was Auschwitz” for him. This essay explores how the pain the father carried spilled over into his son Art’s art.

Roazen, Paul. “Interviews on Freud and Jung with Henry Murray in 1965.” Journal of Analytical Psychology 48.1 (2003): 1-27.

Murray was a brilliant and colorful psychologist who more or less invented what he called personology, the study of lives over time (as well as the Thematic Apperception Test, with his lover Christiana Morgan). He also met with and got to know both Freud and Jung--especially Jung. This article presents Murray’s replies to a number of questions relating, chiefly, to these two monumental figures of 20th-century thought.

Casement, Ann. “Encountering the Shadow in Rites of Passage: A Study in Activations.” Journal of Analytical Psychology 48.1 (2003): 29-46.

Explores Jung’s concept of the shadow, the repository of all that we feel we must reject in ourselves, while also touching on Conrad and “Kurtz” from the “Heart of Darkness.”

McGuire, William. “Jung, Evans, Wentz, and Various Other Gurus.” Journal of Analytical Psychology 48.4 (2003): 433-445.

McGuire is a towering figure in Jungian scholarship. Here he explores how Jung became deeply concerned with Asian religions and especially “the Tibetan Buddhism of a Welshman from Trenton, New Jersey,” by the name of Walter Yeeling Wentz.

Haynal, Andre. “Ferenczi and Jung: Some Parallel Lines?” Journal of Analytical Psychology 48.4 (2003): 467-478.

Reviews the Ferenczi/Jung relationship and suggests parallel lines of interest.

Kirsch, Thomas. “Toni Wolff-James Kirsch: Correspondence.” Journal of Analytical Psychology 48.4 (2003): 499-506.

Wolff was Jung’s mistress from 1912 till the end of his life, a fact almost immediately known to Jung’s wife, Emma. This paper highlights aspects of Wolff’s relationship with her supervisee and former analysand James Kirsch, the author’s father.

Vandereycken, Walter. “New Documentation on the Famous Case of Ellen West.” History of Psychiatry, 14 (2003): 133-134.

The phenomenologist Ludwig Binswanger published his famous case history of Ellen West in 1944. This short communication alerts researchers to the emergence of additional material on the case, including Binswanger’s notes and documents from Ellen’s family.

Baars, Bernard. “The Double Life of B.F. Skinner: Inner Conflict, Dissociation, and the Scientific Taboo Against Consciousness.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 10.1 (2003): 5-25.

Makes the case that Skinner’s radical behaviorism may be derived from psychological conflict and “some degree of dissocation.” Also notes that Skinner radically rejected conscious life in the wake of his failure to succeed as a novelist. This essay is followed by a number of comments from other scholars (in the same issue), some rather lengthy. All are worth reading. Kihlstrom, for instance, contends that Baars commits the “psychologist’s fallacy”: the twin mistake of “assuming that every event has a psychological explanation, and that the psychologist’s explanation of an actor’s behavior is always the best one.”

Kaplan, Robert. “Hagiographic Treatment of C.G. Jung.” American Journal of Psychiatry 160.2 (2003): 388.

Recommends that biographers focus on Jung’s “appalling behavior” rather than exclusively glorifying the man. Cites as an example of the former Jung’s “more than tacit” support for Nazi psychiatry.

Kramer, Deirdre. “A Psychobiographical Analysis of Faith, Hope, and Despair in Suicide.” Journal of Adult Development 9.2 (2002): 117-126.

An Eriksonian and object-relations analysis of a young woman who committed suicide fifty years ago. Also explores the usefulness of psychobiography as a method of studying suicide.

Kaufman, James. “The Cost of the Muse: Poets Die Young.” Death Studies 27.9 (2003): 813-821.

Examines 1,987 deceased writers from four different cultures: American, Chinese, Turkish, and Eastern European. Poets had the shortest life spans compared to the other types of writers considered, and this was true in three of the four cultures looked at (with the exception of the Eastern European).

Seiffge-Krenke, Inge; Kirsch, Hiltrud. “The Body in Adolescent Diaries: The Case of Karen Horney.” Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 57 (2002): 400-410.

Presents the results of content analyses, focusing on the body, of 40 diaries written by 20 women during their adolescent years, then compares these diaries to Horney’s, finding that Horney’s lack body focus. Finds this discrepancy between Horney and female age-mates noteworthy.

Friedman, Lawrence. “Erik Erikson on Generativity: A Biographer’s Perspective.” The Generative Society: Caring for Future Generations. De St. Aubin and Dan P. McAdams, eds. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press, 2004. 257-264.

Considers the concept of generativity in the context of Erikson’s own life and in the social history defining his most prolific years.

Zheng, Jianhong; Huang, Xiting; and Zhang, Jinfu. “A Psychobiographical Study of Liang-Shuming’s Personality.” Psychological Science (China) 26.1 (2003): 9-12.

Uses personality adjective assessment and psychological and biographical analysis to explore the personality of this widely renowned Confucian intellectual.

Ippolito, Maria and Tweney, Ryan. “The Journey to Jacob’s Room: The Network of Enterprise in Virginia Woolf’s First Experimental Novel.” Creativity Research Journal 15.1 (2003): 25-43.

Draws primarily on Howard Gruber’s view of the creative individual as a “unique evolving system” in order to examine aspects of Woolf’s early career.

Vidal, Fernando. “Contextual Biography and the Evolving Systems Approach to Creativity.” Creativity Research Journal 15.1 (2003): 73-82.

Explains why the author abandoned nomothetic methods in favor of a more idiographic focus. Also outlines the advantages of contextual biography.

Schultz, William Todd. “The Prototypical Scene: A Method for Generating Psychobiographical Hypotheses.” Up Close and Personal: The Teaching and Learning of Narrative Research. Josselson, Ruthellen, Lieblich, Amia, and Dan P. McAdams, eds. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Assocation Press, 2003. 151-175.

Provides keys to the identification of prototypical scenes that encapsulate all the core parameters of an entire life history, thus serving as a sort of blueprint for a life. Illustrates the idea with reference to the lives of Capote, Kafka, Kerouac, Plath, and Kathryn Harrison.

Anderson, James William. “A Psychological Perspective on the Relationship of William and Henry James.” Up Close and Personal: The Teaching and Learning of Narrative Research. Josselson, Ruthellen, Lieblich, Amia, and Dan P. McAdams, eds. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Assocation Press, 2003. 177-197.

Provides a short psychobiographical analysis of the James brothers and interweaves it with details relating to the hidden thinking that underlies the essay, thinking that is typically left off-stage.

Kirshner, Lewis. “The Man Who Didn’t Exist: The Case of Louis Althusser.” American Imago 60.2 (2003): 211-239.

Examines the fraught life of Parisian philosopher and Communist intellectual Althusser, who strangled his wife to death in 1980. Makes good use of Althusser’s odd autobiography, L’Avenir dure longtemps, written in 1985.

Lacoursiere, Roy. “Proust and Parricide: Literay, Biographical, and Forensic-Psychiatric Explorations.” American Imago 60.2 (2003): 179-210.

Seeks to show that the writing of “Filial Sentiments of a Parricide” in 1907 allowed Proust to expiate enough of his guilt over real and imagined mistreatment of his mother to begin serious work on his novel.

Zimmerman, Lee. “Frankenstein, Invisibility, and Nameless Dread.” American Imago, 60.2 (2003): 135-158.

Proposes that Victor is the monster’s double, and that the monster’s story of emotional abandonment is thus Victor’s story, too.

Pietikainen, Petteri and Ilhanus, Juhani. “On the Origins of Psychoanalytic Psychohistory.” History of Psychology 6.2 (2003): 171-194.

Focuses on Erikson, Mazlich, and Lifton to explore the early development of psychoanalytically-inspired psychohistory. Also gives an account of the Wellfleet Group.

Schneiderman, Leo. “Edith Wharton: Peer Groups and Peerless Women.” Imagination, Cognition, and Personality 21.3 (2002): 233-252.

Among other things, addresses how Wharton’s sense of identity and ability to manage anxiety was dependent on membership in peer groups anchored in French society.

Linn, Louis. “Freud’s Encounter With Cocaine.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 50.4 (2002): 1151-1161.

Examines whether Freud was addicted to cocaine, as well as his apparent addiction to cigars.

Silvio, Joseph. “A Streetcar Named Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 30.1 (2002): 135-144.

Investigates how Williams’ play expressed aspects of his own psychic conflict that erupted in the wake of success with its predecessor, The Glass Menagerie.

Lachkar, Joan. “The Psychological Make-Up of a Suicide Bomber.” Journal of Psychohistory 29.4 (2002): 349-367.

Discusses the suicide bomber from a mythological, psychohistorical, and psychoanalytic perspective. Contends that conflicts in Islam originate in identification with the absent father, a syndrome compatible with the “collective borderline personality.”

Books:

Winer, Jerome, ed. The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Volume XXXI. Hillsdale, N.J: The Analytic Press, 2003.

Focuses on psychoanalytically-inspired psychohistory, with essays by Elms, Runyan, Anderson, Mazlich, Cocks, Epstein, Elovitz, Glad, Meissner, and others. Subjects include Nixon, bin Laden, Hitler, Kubrick, Kandinsky, and Freud.

Beran, Michael. Jefferson’s Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind. New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 2003.

Account of the “strangeness and originality” of Jefferson.

Smith, Jonathan, ed. Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.

Offers practical guidance to those conducting qualitative research in psychology.