Chuck Strozier Books

About Chuck Strozier

Psychotherapist, Professor, Author, Photographer

My Story

It is an act of outrageous narcissism to list one’s accomplishments for a website such as the one you are reading. The best I can do in this narrative portion of my self presentation is try an occupy that liminal space between naming what I think I have done of note in my life without puffing myself up like a balloon to be popped.

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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Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

Kohut’s “self psychology” re-imagined psychanalysis as a theory and practice based on empathy. Many had flailed at the stout walls of classical ego psychology. It took someone from the inside, a man who at first had firmly embraced orthodoxy, to think things from the ground up,

 

"This impeccably researched book, written in a clear elegant style that clarifies even complicated ideas carries us along like an exciting novel."

– Sophie Freud, American Journal of Psychotherapy