Main description:

The Making of Psychohistory is the first volume dedicated to the history of psychohistory, an amalgam of psychology, history, and related social sciences. Dr. Paul Elovitz, a participant since the early days of the organized field, recounts the origins and development of this interdisciplinary area of study, as well as the contributions of influential individuals working within the intersection of historical and psychological thinking and methodologies. This is an essential, thorough reflection on the rich and varied scholarship within psychohistory's subfields of applied psychoanalysis, political psychology, and psychobiography.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Glossary 1. Introduction 2. My Exuberant Journey 3. The Early History of Psychohistory 4. Resistance and Perseverance 5. Comparing the Early Freudian and Psychohistorical Movements 6. A Psychohistorian's Approach to Childhood and Childrearing 7. Prominent Psychohistorians Lifton, deMause, and Volkan 8. Outstanding Psychohistorians Gay, Loewenberg, and Binion 9. My Journey as a Psychohistorical Teacher 10. My Role in Creating and Nurturing Postgraduate Psychohistorical Education 11. The Dilemmas of a Presidential Psychohistorian 12. Finding My Voice with Halpern, deMause, Ullman 13. Builders of Psychohistory 14. Concluding Thoughts; Appendices A. Featured Scholar Interviews, B. Memorials