Beyond Punitive Families and Schools: Reforming America’s Culture of Violence. Zoom conference on Adolescent Mass Shootings: Understanding causes and preventing tragedies, December 14, 2024  https://psychohistory.us/events/   PowerPoint

Ukraine, Ideology, and Military Spending, presentation to 46th Annual Conference, International Psychohistorical Association, 19 May 2023                                                  Video recording    ***   PowerPoint   


Big History and the Human Future: Sixth Extinction or Interstellar Civilization, presentation to 45th Annual Conference, International Psychohistorical Association, 26 June 2022.  Video recording    ***   PowerPoint


Globalization and Death Anxiety: A Psychohistorical Perspective, presentation to International Webinar on Redefining Wellness in the Wake of Pandemic, University of Calcutta, Department of Psychology, May 15, 2021.


RECENT PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Sources and dynamics of the self: Perceptual control theory, psychoanalysis, and the control of self-image. In Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory, Volume II, Chapter 14 (2023). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Brian D'Agostino and Dorothea Leicher, Religion and Death a Century Later, The Journal of Psychohistory 50 (4) Spring 2023

Psychohistory, Ideology and Ukraine, The Journal of Psychohistory 50 (2) Fall 2022.

Souvik Raychaudhuri, Brian D'Agostino, and Sagnik Dhar, A Distant Mirror: Modi, Trump, and Pandemic Politics in an Authoritarian Age, Clio's Psyche, Vol. 26, No. 3 Summer 2020. 

Brian D'Agostino, Seth Allcorn, and Howard Stein, Human Nature in Psychohistory Revisited, The Journal of Psychohistory 48 (1) Summer 2020. 

Militarism and the Authoritarian Personality: Displacement, Identification, and Perceptual Control, Journal for the Advancement of Scientific Psychoanalytic Empirical Research (J.A.S.P.E.R.) Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2019) 45-71.    

Beyond Sacred Cows and Scapegoats: Displacement, Ideology, and the Future of Democracy, The Journal of Psychohistory 46 (4) 2019. 

Souvik Raychaudhuri and Brian D'Agostino, Modi's "Digital India" and the Mother Goddess: Fantasy as Legitimation, The Journal of Psychohistory 46 (3) 2019.

Militarism, Machismo, and the Regulation of Self-Image, The Journal of Psychohistory 45 (3) 2018.


PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Demilitarization and the Green New Deal, presented to the 2019 annual meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, New Orleans, March 28-30.

Review of Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy by Peter Ranis, Review of Political Economy vol. 29, no. 2, April 2017.

Reinventing The Common Good, essay submitted to National Essay Competition on the Next System, thenextsystem.org/essayprize 30 December 2016. 

Obama's Political and Institutional Constraints, Clio's Psyche 21, 4, March 2015.

From Islamic State to Kiev: Apocalyptic Fantasy and American Power, Psychohistory News, Fall 2014.

The Case for a Green New Deal. American Government. ABC-CLIO, Web. 2013.

"Markets Without Capitalism," Chapter 6, The Middle Class Fights Back, Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012.

"Government for the People," Chapter 5, The Middle Class Fights Back, Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012.

Review of Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal by Moshe Adler, Review of Political Economy Vol 24, No. 1, 2012.

"A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," Living City, April 2010.

Review of Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance, Political Science Quarterly, Spring 2009.

“In Search of the Common Good: Informed Citizens and the Economy,” Living City, February 2009.
“Review of Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security?” edited by Michael Spies and John Burroughs, Political Science Quarterly, Spring 2008.

“Human Rights: A Case Study in the Role of Civil Society,” Powerpoint presentation,
New Humanity Conference on Citizenship, Hyde Park, NY, September 22-23, 2007.

“Beating Swords Into Plowshares: International Law and Common Security,” Living City, October 2006.

“Reinventing the New Deal,” presentation to Philadelphia Ethical Society, January 15, 2006.

“Catholics, Protestants, and the Democratic Party,” paper presented to the International Psychohistorical Association, Fordham University, June 9, 2005

"Tribute to Seymour Melman" (Review of After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy), Z Magazine, March 2005.

Review of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People Jonathan Schell, Political Science Quarterly 119, 2 (Summer, 2004).

Review of High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition by Stanley Renshon, The Journal of Psychohistory, Winter 1998.

"NGO's Push for Stronger NPT;" "Plutonium and Proliferation;" "U.N. Conference Maps Post Cold War Agenda," Newsletter of the New York Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Summer 1993 to Fall 1994.

"Reject the Policy of Arms for Jobs," San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 1992.

“Introduction,” in Marcus G. Raskin, Abolishing the War System: The Disarmament and International Law Project of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. Northampton, MA: Aletheia Press, 1992.

"Time for an Old Blueprint," with James Raffel, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 47, No. 9, November, 1991.

"Ban Mass Destruction Weapons," with Saul Mendlovitz, Disarmament Times, April, 1991.


PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOHISTORY

Leaders, Celebrities, and the Hero Complex: Remembering Souvik Raychaudhuri, Psychohistory News, Vol. 40, No. 1, Winter, 2021.

Review of "Vamik's Room, a film by Molly Castelloe, Political Psychology, Vol 41, No. 6, 2020.

Perceptual Control Theory and Clinical Practice, Psychohistory News, Fall 2019.

The Scope and Limits of Psychohistory, The Journal of Psychohistory 41, 4 (Spring 2014)

How to End Violence in America, statement drafted on behalf of the International Psychohistorical Association, 1 January 2013.

"Psychology of the Radical Right," from The Middle Class Fights Back: How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America (Praeger 2012)

“Beyond Fiscal Triage,” Tapestry: The Journal of Historical Motivations and the Social Fabric, Fall/Winter 1999.

“Intentions, Values, and the Self: Towards a Hierarchy of Motivation,” presented to the International Psychohistorical Association, Fordham University, June 4, 1999.

"Gender Personality and Militarism," presented to the International Psychohistorical Association, Fordham University, June 4, 1998.

“Nixon as Richard II via Hollywood,” with Constance L. Benson, Clio’s Psyche, March 1996.

"Self Images of Hawks and Doves: A Control Systems Model of Militarism,” Political Psychology, vol. 16, no. 2  June 1995.

“The Private Sector of John Maynard Keynes,” Clio’s Psyche, June 1995..

Review of Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence Political Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1993.

"Self Perception and National Security Policy," presented to the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, San Francisco, 4-8 July 1992.

Review of The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat by Robert Jay Lifton & Eric Markusen, Political Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 1991.

“Replicability of Results with Theoretical Rotation,” Operant Subjectivity, vol. 7, no. 3  April 1984.


EDUCATION
Public Statement on Teachers College Community School and PS 36 Proposed Co-Location, New York City Department of Education Public Hearings, February 2017.

Mike's School Management Muddle, New York Daily News, August 22, 2013.

"School Reform and Other Diversions," Chapter 3, The Middle Class Fights Back: How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America (Praeger 2012).


"Unleashing Minds and Brains," Chapter 7, The Middle Class Fights Back: How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America (Praeger 2012).

“Overcoming Student Stress,” interview with NBC health reporter Dr. David Marks, prime time television news story, WNBC (Channel 4), April 7, 2004.

“Beyond Academic Programs: Overcoming Stress and Developing the Full Potential of Students,” presented to conference on Transcendental Meditation in Education, New York Helmsley Hotel, 10 March 2004.

"Design for an Innovative Public School," 2003 (revised June 22, 2015).

“Towards A Renewal of Education,” Education Notes, Fall, 2003.

“The 'Mathematics A' Regents: Wrong Assessment for Most College Bound Students," Testimony to the New York State Senate Education Committee, Sept. 23, 2003.

Letter replying to James Traub ’s “What No School Can Do,” The New York Times Magazine, 6 February 2002.

"Enabling Special Education Students to Excel: The Need for Individualized Placement and Program Design," unpublished paper, 1999.