Charles B. Strozier was born on February 16, 1944. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Harvard University in 1966, having majored in History with minors in Psychology and Literature. He attended the University of Chicago from 1966-1971, completing both his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in History during that time. He attended the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1973-1981 and the Training and Research Institute in Self Psychology as a clinical graduate from 1986-1992.

Strozier joined Sangamon State University [now University of Illinois-Springfield] in August 1982 as an Assistant Professor of History. While at SSU, he taught history and psychohistory and conducted extensive research on Abraham Lincoln. He began teaching at John Jay College at the City University of New York in 1986, and began practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New York in 1992.

Charles Strozier has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and his published works include ‘Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst,’ (2001), ‘The New World of Self: Heinz Kohut’s Transformation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy,’ (2022), ‘Apocalypse: The Psychology of Fundamentalism in America,’ (1994), and ‘The Fundamentalist Mindset (2010).