Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good history. The author systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality, and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry.
| ISBN: | 9780195027358 |
| Publication date: | 25th September 1980 |
| Author: | David E Stannard |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
History: theory and methods Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology |