Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory

by David E. Stannard

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 points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality, and ultimately a historical nature of this mode of historical inquiry.

Genres: History, Psychoanalysis

208 pages, Hardcover

First published June 5, 1980