RC: things. One is to write books that are both scholarly and talked about, and t+hat RC: things. One is to write books that are both scholarly and talked about, and t+hat Childhood and Society become popular -- such as Erikson's . In the reviews and letters to the Times Literary Supplement The New York Times editor in the and the Sunday edition of , there is a striking absence of references to psychohistory books. Despite being published by a well- Frederick Law Olmsted: The known press -- New York University -- Mel Kalfus' biography, Passion of a Public Artist Times, (1991), was not reviewed in the as were earlier Olmsted lives. Roots of Nazi To the best of my knowledge, Jay Gonen's brilliant book on Nazi psychology, Psychology (2000), has received little discussion outside of . But how many Clio's Psyche psychohistorians have achieved the fame of Erikson? Conversely, their work may be strengthened by accepting that they are fated to write for only a small audience. The limited Hitler, readership for two superb books, Gonen's and Victor's are examples.

Perhaps most important is the encouragement of small groups -- such as the Psychohistory Forum and its research groups -- where work is discussed and individual intellectual friendships are formed and continued outside of the group.

## PHE:

What is your primary affiliation?

RC: have two identities: one as a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist and another as a RC: have two identities: one as a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist and another as a Darwin scholar. This shows in my office where every day I see patients and do work on Darwin. On one side of this room there are books on Darwin and Victorian times and on the other side there are books on Freud and psychiatry.

## PHE:

Of which of your works are you most proud?

RC: Be an Invalid: The Illness of Charles Darwin and "Charles Darwin's 'Insufferable RC: Be an Invalid: The Illness of Charles Darwin and "Charles Darwin's 'Insufferable Free Associations Grief'" ( , 9, 1987, pp. 7-44). Both delineated important but neglected areas in Darwin's biography. 'Darwin's 'Insuf - ferable Grief'' recounted Darwin's grief over the death of his daughter Annie -- the most emotional event in his life. It was a pioneering work and has led Annie's Box Darwin, His to the recent, much more extended study of Darwin and his daughter, ( Daughter and Human Evolution is the title of the American edition) by Randal Keynes.

There are two other articles I'd like to mention. ''Confessing a Murder': Darwin's First Isis, Revelations about Transmutation' ( 77, 1986, pp. 9- 32) is about Darwin's guilt over his having unpopular ideas. It showed how he persevered and began to form an identity of the 'Devil's Chaplain.' I am reminded of his 1856 remark in a letter, 'What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low &horribly cruel works of nature.' Darwin's clerical training at Cambridge had a profou nd impact on him, and he rightfully feared the clergy's reaction to his theories. Then there's the history of the contacts between Darwin and Marx. This is interesting for demonstrating what the actual contacts were, how letters can be misleading, and what really took place in the discovery of the real nature of the contacts because one participant had written an account of the history, which omitted several History of of the participants for several reasons. ('The Myth of the Darwin - Marx Letter,' Political Economy , 14:4, 1982, pp. 461-482)