John read three conference papers in foreign lands: “What Do Humans Need to be Human? Self-psychology and the Problem of Social Justice,” International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Jerusalem, October 2014; “Ancient Theology and Contemporary Self Psychology: Monotheism, Monoselfism, and the Need to Belong,” International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Jerusalem, October 2014; and “The Erotic Self: Freud, Kohut, and Plato,” Conference on Psychology and the Classics, Leuven, Belgium, March 2015; to also be given at the Psychoanalytic Society of Chicago. He also published two articles: “Economics, Self Psychology, and Ethics: Why Modern Economic Persons Cheat and How Self Psychology Can Provide the Basis for a Trustworthy Economic World,” in “The Financial Crisis: Neglected Ideas in Economics, Psychology, and Values,” Oxford University Press, 2015; and “What Do Humans Need to Be Human? Self Psychology and the Problem of Social Justice” in the spring edition of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. John also addressed the Psychoanalytic Society of Chicago.