Table of Contents

On Psychohistory; I: Psychoanalysis and History; Psychohistory; II: The Education of a Psychohistorian; Emotional Problems of Graduate Education; The Graduate Years; Love and Hate in the Academy; The Psychobiographical Background to Psychohistory; III: Austrian Portraits; Theodor Herzl; Victor and Friedrich Adler; Austro-Marxism and Revolution; IV: The German Case; The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler; The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort

About the Author

Peter Loewenberg

Reviews

-[This book] is an important collection of essays on the controversial field of psychohistory by someone who has had full training, both hi history and psychoanalysis.- --Peter Gay -[T]his is a serious and thoughtful book for anyone interested in the possibility of extending history's manner of understanding itself.- --David Weinberger, Philadelphia Inquirer -Peter Loewenberg is the pre-eminent authority in the field of psychohistory. His excellently written essays provide readers with sophisticated and sensible psychohistory.- --John J. Fitzpatrick, Choice -Loewenberg has brought not only the method but also the sensitivity and dispassion of the psychoanalyst to his study of the past. He has contributed significantly to historical understanding, and done good service for the movement he represents.- --Mark Silk, Boston Globe

"[This book] is an important collection of essays on the controversial field of psychohistory by someone who has had full training, both hi history and psychoanalysis." --Peter Gay "[T]his is a serious and thoughtful book for anyone interested in the possibility of extending history's manner of understanding itself." --David Weinberger, Philadelphia Inquirer "Peter Loewenberg is the pre-eminent authority in the field of psychohistory. His excellently written essays provide readers with sophisticated and sensible psychohistory." --John J. Fitzpatrick, Choice "Loewenberg has brought not only the method but also the sensitivity and dispassion of the psychoanalyst to his study of the past. He has contributed significantly to historical understanding, and done good service for the movement he represents." --Mark Silk, Boston Globe

"[This book] is an important collection of essays on the controversial field of psychohistory by someone who has had full training, both hi history and psychoanalysis." --Peter Gay "[T]his is a serious and thoughtful book for anyone interested in the possibility of extending history's manner of understanding itself." --David Weinberger, "Philadelphia Inquirer" "Peter Loewenberg is the pre-eminent authority in the field of psychohistory. His excellently written essays provide readers with sophisticated and sensible psychohistory." --John J. Fitzpatrick, "Choice" "Loewenberg has brought not only the method but also the sensitivity and dispassion of the psychoanalyst to his study of the past. He has contributed significantly to historical understanding, and done good service for the movement he represents." --Mark Silk, "Boston Globe"