Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)

Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)

W. Ronald D. Fairbairn (1889 –1964)

Melanie Klein (1882-1960)

Donald Woods Winnicott (1896 –1971)

Sandor Ferenczi (1873 – 1933)

Harry J. S. Guntrip (1901-1975)

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897-1979)

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)

Hanna Segal (Born in 1918)

Betty Joseph (1917-2013)

John Bowlby (1907- 1990)

Michael Balint (1896 – 1970)

James F. Masterson (1926 -2010)

Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld

Paul H. Elovitz, PhD

Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, is a historian, psychoanalytic researcher, and author of about 400 publications covering presidential psychobiography, teaching, documenting the field of psychohistory, and much more. After taking his doctoral degree in history, he trained and practiced as a psychoanalyst, and in 2019 was made the first Research Psychoanalyst by the New Jersey Institute for Psychoanalysis. Prof. Elovitz is a founding faculty member at Ramapo College who previously taught at Temple, Rutgers, and Fairleigh Dickinson universities. At the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ORI), he has taught courses in psychobiography and psychohistory for mental health professionals.

Dr. Elovitz began organizing scholarly meetings as a faculty member at Ramapo College and then as convener of the Institute for Psychohistory Saturday Workshops (1975-1982). In 1982, he founded the Psychohistory Forum to nurture psychohistorical research and continues to lead its Executive Council. In 1994, he created Clio’s Psyche (cliospsyche.org) to publish its scholarship, of which he is Editor-in-Chief.

Dr. Elovitz is the author of The Making of Psychohistory, editor of The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory and has edited or written eight other books. He is a founding member and past president of the International Psychohistorical Association (1978-) and serves on its leadership council, presenting at all meetings.

He may be contacted at .

Dr. Elovitz has been teaching at ORI since 2020. His presentations, workshops and seminars at ORI include:

2/6; 2/20; 3/13; 4/3/22 (Sundays, 10am – 1pm): Psychobiography: An In-Depth Understanding of Famous and ordinary People (with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD)
11/6; 13; 20; 12/4; 11/22 (Sundays, 10am – 1pm): Introduction to Psychohistory for Mental Health Professionals and the Curious (with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD)
12/10/23; 01/07; 02/04; & 03/03 2024 (Sundays, 10:30am – 1:15pm): An In-Depth Understanding of Famous and Ordinary People through the Art of Psychobiography (with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD)