Windows Between History, Culture, Politics, and Psychoanalysis

Published by the
Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, University of Virginia

Mind and Human Interaction is a biannual journal that combines the perspectives of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, diplomacy, political science, history, sociology, and anthropology to provide in-depth analysis of the psychological processes beneath the surface of conflict, acculturation, ethnonational identity, and other aspects of human relations.
Recent issue topics have included:                   
 
           
   Trauma and identity    Secondary prevention of societal trauma
  Trauma and social resistance   Community Resilence
  September 11 and beyond   Youth in conflict
  Psychobiography   Racism, ethnic conflict, and “otherness”
  Refugees and acculturation   History, myth, and mind
  Leaders and decisionmakers   Defining evil
  Hypernationalism and xenophobia   Legacies of mass violence
       

Editor: Lisa Aronson, Ph.D.
Founder and Editor Emeritus: Vamik D. Volkan, M.D.
Co-Editor: Maurice Apprey, Ph.D.
Managing Editor: Lisa Romano

Editorial Board~~~

Salman Akhtar
Psychoanalysis/Jefferson Medical School
Joy Boissevain
Grants Specialist, Center for Global Health, School of Medicine, University of Virginia 

Roberta Culbertson
Anthropology/Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Virginia
Norman Itzkowitz
History/Princeton University
Demetrios Julius
Psychiatry/Department of Veterans Affairs, Richmond, VA
Peter Loewenberg
History and Psychoanalysis/University of California at Los Angeles
Joseph Montville
Diplomacy/Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
Peter Olsson
Psychoanalysis/Baylor College of Medicine
Jahan Ramazani
English Literature/University of Virginia
Harold Saunders
Diplomacy/Kettering Foundation
Howard Stein
Anthropology/University of Oklahoma
J. Anderson Thomson, Jr.
Psychiatry/University of Virginia



  Index of recent Issues