About Chuck Strozier
Psychotherapist, Professor, Author, Photographer
My Story
Most importantly I have sired four children all of whom I love and adore and who have in turn produced six delightful grandchildren, survived a divorce and a period of single-parenthood, and then found the love of my life for the last 35 years. I feel like the proud patriarch of an increasingly extended clan.
Professionally, I was a Professor of History for half a century, first at Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, and then for 34 years at John Jay College, The City University of New York. From the age of 16, however, I was also interested in psychoanalysis, which I studied formally at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in the 1970s after I received my B.A. from Harvard in 1966 and my PhD from the University of Chicago in 1971. For a number of years as a psychohistorian, my “patients” were all dead, but starting in 1992 I began a clinical practice in psychoanalysis and found I loved it and miraculously my patients actually got better.
I have been blessed to publish quite a few books and numerous articles and received more honors than I surely deserve but have always gladly accepted. All of that is detailed elsewhere on the website. I am delighted you got this far in reading about me!
Best Sellers
Lincoln’s Quest For Union
Lincoln’s Quest for Union gives a probing account of Lincoln’s inner life–from his childhood in Kentucky and Indiana, through his youth and adulthood in Illinois, amid years of struggle 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. Speed was taken with his visitor, but, as he said later,
Until The Fires Stopped Burning
Based on the testimony of survivors, bystanders, spectators, and victim’s friends and families, Until the Fires Stopped Burning brings much-needed clarity to the conscious and unconscious meaning of 9/11 and its relationship to historical disaster, apocalyptic experience, unnatural death, and the psychological endurance of trauma.
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