Decoding the Past The Psychohistorical Approach

Loewenberg, Peter

ISBN 10: 0394481526 / ISBN 13: 9780394481524

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983

About this Item

8vo from front flap: "From a distinguished historian and psychoanalyst, here is a collection of brilliant essays on psychohistory, the discipline that has emerged from the synthesis of traditional historical analysis and clinical psychoanalysis. In these eleven essays (four published here for the first time), Peter Loewenberg surveys the field, its methods, its problems (historians have not always employed it responsibly or well), and demonstrates through his own work the special contributions that psychoanalysis can make to history." #02447. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight DJ VG-: edge and corner wear, chipping, NOT clipped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decoding the Past The Psychohistorical Approach
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394481526
• ISBN 13: 9780394481524
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: first edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • psychology
  • essays
  • nonfiction
  • history

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Synopsis

A collection of essays exploring the methods and applications of the controversial new discipline of psychohistory discusses the use of psychoanalysis in historical study to contribute a more perceptive view of the past

About the Author

Peter Loewenberg is professor of history and political psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a training and supervising analyst of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published and lectured widely in America, Europe, China, and Israel.