Works
Book, Journals, Review Essays and other writings.
Around the Net
Charles B. Strozier works on Amazon
Charles B. Amazon Profile
My Websites
The New World of Self
In The New World of Self, Charles B. Strozier and his coauthors take on the challenge of revisiting the clinical meanings of self psychology. The book explains why the best modes of treatment are mutual, open, fluid, flexible, and, of course, most of all based in the deep empathic immersion of the analyst into the feelings, affect, and experience of the patient. The book describes the transformative research of Heinz Kohut.
Making Peace in Northern Ireland
This book examines the remarkable process that led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence. The story of the Troubles is horrifying, but the story of peacemaking is not just dramatic—it inspires hope. If the Irish can make peace, anyone can. That may be the most important lesson of this book. And that lesson is transferable.
Lincoln’s Quest For Union
In Lincoln’s Quest for Union, Charles Strozier gives the most probing account available of Lincoln’s inner life–from the time he was a young man in Illinois, just finding himself, through his ascent to the presidency when he guided the nation and articulated for the country the meaning of the Civil War
Your Friend Forever
On April 15, 1837, a “long, gawky” Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed’s dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost to buy the materials for a bed. Speed said seventeen dollars, which Lincoln didn’t have. He asked for a loan to cover that amount until Christmas...
Apocalypse
Showing how the tensions of modern life lead people to accept the idea of apocalyptic renewal, an in-depth exploration of Christian fundamentalism offers unique insights into the psychology of their thinking on a wide variety of issues.
The Fundamentalist Mindset
This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accounts for the violence that emerges among some fundamentalist groups? The contributors to this book identify several factors…
Until The Fires Stopped Burning
Charles B. Strozier’s college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since have attracted dozens of survivors and family members. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, Strozier…
Self Psychology and Humanities
Heinz Kohut, one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, developed the concepts and theories of self psychology. This posthumous book presents his writings and teachings, about the role of the individual, as well as of the “group self,” in history, art, religion, and politics.
The Leader
Behind every leader is an instructive life story. It often promotes a public image that inspires others to live by it. And, sometimes, even to live or to die for it. As leadership qualities and image issues gain significance in the public discourse, the psychological study of leadership is a critical factor in any discussion. With its trenchant insights into leaders…
The Year 2000
The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years ago, monks stopped copying manuscripts and religious building projects came to a halt as panic swept Europe. Today, anxiety about global warming, government power, superviruses,…
Trauma and Self
This remarkable collection of original essays, written by prominent scholars recognized for their achievements in a wide range of disciplines, defines trauma as a disruption in the fragile process of symbolization, or the human capacity to imbue life with meaning by representing the self’s immortality.
Genocide, war, and Human Survival
From the tragic workings of the Holocaust and Hiroshima to contemporary examples of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, this provocative collection of original essays examines the enduring impact of cataclysmic events on the modern human psyche.
Coming Soon
Lead author with David Terman, Jeffrey Stern, and Linda Emanuel
Doing Self Psychology: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in a New Key
Under contract with Oxford University Press.
Lead author with Orly Shoshani
Idealization: Psychological, Spiritual, and Political Meanings
All book covers and titles open to the title on Chuck's author site and contain the full descriptions and purchasing options.
Visit Chuck's Book site for more information.
Journals:
The Psychohistory Review
Founding Editor, 1973-1986; Associate Editor, 1986-1998.
Recent Articles, Review Essays, and Other Writings:
“I Have a Dream,” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, published August 11, 2026.
“Psychohistorical Reflections on Humiliation,” Ruch Pedagogiczny, forthcoming.
“Commentary on Dr. David Tuckett,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, November 20, 2025. Read article.
“Historical and Psychological Authenticity,” The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 111, No. 4, December 2024.
“Comment on Paper by Richard Geist and Meredith Nocek,” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, Vol. 19, Issue 4, 2024. Read article.
“The Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” The Psychoanalytic Review, 111 (2024): 69-74.
Lead author with Wayne Soini, “Lincoln and his ‘Angel Mother’ and his Surrogate Fathers,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 45 (2024): 1-16.
“The Apocalyptic Aims of Hamas,” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 19 (January-March 2024): 1-3.
“Psychological Reflections on the Tragic Dynamics of War,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 15, 2023. Read article.
“Covid: Apocalyptic Dread,” The New England Journal of Public Policy, 2023.
(with David Terman), “Putin’s Psychology and Nuclear Weapons: The Fundamentalist Mindset,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Read article.
“Arnold Goldberg: A Historical Memoir,” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, Volume 18, Issue 1, 2022. Read article.
(with Robert Jay Lifton), “Putin and Nuclear Threat: Imagery of Extinction,” Psychology Today, posted April 27, 2022. Read article.
(with Robert Jay Lifton), “Putin and Nuclear Threat: Appropriate Nuclear Fear,” Psychology Today, posted May 11, 2022. Read article.
(with David Terman), “Inside Putin’s Head,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 22, 2022. Read article.
“The Wisdom of the 9/11 Survivor,” Daily News, September 8, 2021.
(with Robert Jay Lifton), “The Psychological Pandemic: Can we Confront Our Anxiety?” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 1, 2021.
(with David Terman), “Trumpism,” International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology e-Forum, April 15, 2020.
“The Psychology of Covid 19,” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, Spring 2021.
“Heinz Kohut Revisited,” special issue of Psychoanalytic Review, of which I am co-editor and will contribute, as lead author, with Konstantine Pinteris, Kathleen Kelley, and Deborah Mart, “Heinz Kohut’s Ideas of Self,” forthcoming, 2021.
(with Robert Jay Lifton), “A Pandemic of Body and Mind,” Op-Ed, under consideration.
“Psychological Reflections on Mahatma Gandhi and the Future of Satyagraha,” New England Journal of Public Policy, forthcoming, fall 2020. Also available on the website of The Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Harris-Manchester College, October 2, 2019. The lecture on which the paper is based is currently available on the YouTube channel of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict.
“A Tribute to Robert Jay Lifton,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, forthcoming June 2020.
(with David Strug, Konstantine Pinteris, Kathleen Kelley, and Deborah Mart), “Termination in Self Psychology: The Contribution of Heinz Kohut,” The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 104, No. 6, December 2019, pp. 537-558.
“The Psychology of Peacemaking: Northern Ireland, John, Lord Alderdice, and the End of the Troubles,” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 16, 2019, pp. 274-284.
“A Memoir of Psychohistory,” Clio’s Psyche, Volume 26, No. 1, Fall 2019.
“The World Trade Center Disaster, Survival and Psychotherapy” and “The Fundamentalist Mindset and Historical Trauma,” in Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Ethics: Clinical Works in the Era of War, Terrorism, and Natural Disaster, edited and translated into Japanese by Koichi Togashi (Tokyo: Iwasaki Gkujyutsu Shuppansha, 2019).
Commentary on paper about Kohut’s supervision of Jule Miller, Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, online August 1, 2019. Read article.
Podcast on the psychology of fundamentalism with program by Danny Whittaker, in MOWE, available February 26, 2019. Listen to podcast.
(with James William Anderson), “A Dialogue on the Psychology of Lincoln,” Clio’s Psyche, Winter 2019, Volume 26, No. 2.
“Heinz Kohut Nearly Missed the Concentration Camp,” Newsletter of the IAPSP, October 24, 2018. Read article.
“Are Hate Crimes Terrorism?” The Crime Report, The Center on Media and Justice, John Jay College, November 1, 2018. Read article.
Lead author with David Strug, Konstantine Pinteris, and Kathleen Kelley, “Sexualization in the Work of Heinz Kohut,” Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 13:2 (2018), pp. 171-185.
“Those Who Live By the Sword,” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, October 2017. Read article.
“A Journey in Psychohistory,” Clio’s Psyche, forthcoming.
(with Deborah Mart), “The Politics of Constructed Humiliation: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on War, Terrorism, and Genocide,” Research in Psychoanalysis, Vol. 1, No. 23, 2017. Read article.
Lecture on my book, Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln, to the Abraham Lincoln Society of Washington, D.C., April 18, 2017, videotaped by C-SPAN3 and broadcast on Sunday, May 21, 2017. Now available in the C-SPAN library. Watch lecture.
“The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Fundamentalist Mindset,” New England Journal of Public Policy, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2017. View publication.
(with Kelly Berkell), Climate Change and Political Violence, Report of the Center on Terrorism, John Jay College, CUNY, March 2017.
“Did Abraham Lincoln’s Bromance Alter the Course of American History?” The Conversation, February 16, 2017. Republished by Newsweek, The Smithsonian, and Slate.
“The Apocalyptic Imagination, Paranoia, History, and Violence,” Torch, the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, December 6, 2016.
“The Apocalyptic Imagination,” published on the website of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Harris-Manchester College, Oxford University, 2016.
Blog posts in August 2016 on Psychology Today: “The New World of Male Friendship”; “Interview about ‘Your Friend Forever’”; and “All the Presidents’ Men.”
Lead author with David Strug, Konstantine Pinteris, and Kathleen Kelley, “Heinz Kohut’s Theory of Aggression and Rage,” Psychoanalytic Psychology, online September 2016; in print 2017, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 361-367.
Interview, Psychohistory Newsletter, Fall 2016, Vol. 35, Issue No. 4.
(lead author with Kelly Berkell), “The Curious Politics of Global Warming and Nuclear Power,” Huffington Post, November 30, 2015.
(lead author with Kelly Berkell), “Climate Change and Political Violence: Trauma and the Dilemmas of the Survivor,” Diplomatie, December 11, 2015.
“Where You Lived Mattered: 9/11 in Historical Memory,” History News Network, September 15, 2014.
(lead author with Scott Knowles), “How to Honor the Dead We Cannot Name?” Slate, May 14, 2014.
(lead author with Kelly Berkell), “How Climate Change Helped ISIS,” Huffington Post, September 29, 2014.
(lead author with Kelly Berkell), “Climate Change on the Nuclear Subcontinent,” Huffington Post, October 20, 2014.
(lead author with David Strug, Konstantine Pinteris, and Kathleen Kelley), “On Dreams,” International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2014.
(lead author with Scott Knowles), “How Should the Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Honor the Dead?” Slate, May 14, 2014.
“Obama’s Dreams: On Autobiography and Identity,” in Clio’s Psyche, Psychohistory for the Twenty-First Century: The Best of the Journal, 2013.
“Robert Stolorow’s Myth of Originality,” February 2012, distributed on the internet.
(lead author with Katharine Boyd), “The Psychology of Apocalypticism,” in The Apocalyptic Complex - Origins, Histories, Permanencies, eds. Nadia Al-Bagdadi, David Marno, and Matthias Riedl (Budapest, Hungary: CEU Press, 2011).
Commentary on three articles in the special issue of International Journal of Group Psychotherapy on “The Treatment of Political Prisoners and Trauma Victims: Individual and Societal Implications,” Fall 2011.
“Die fundamentalistische Denkweise. Psychologische Uberlegungen zu Gewalt und Religion,” in Religion und Fanatismus: Psychoanalytische und theologische Zugange (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010).
“Heinz Kohut and the Erotic Transference,” NAAP Newsletter, 2009.
“The Forever War on Terror,” World Policy Journal, Winter 2008.
“The Apocalyptic Other: On Fundamentalism and Violence,” Nova Religio, Volume 11, No. 1, August 2007; republished in modified form in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: 100 Years after the Forgery, Steven T. Katz, editor (New York: New York University Press).
Contact Me Today for a Free Consultation
Call
(212) 539-1842
chuck@charlesbstrozier.com
Hours
I'm free for consultation most working days.