Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory

by David E. Stannard

A study of the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - this work 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.

Genres: History, Psychoanalysis

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 5, 1980